Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a Palantir-developed tool called Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) to populate maps with potential deportation targets, g…
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to classify its AI-driven immigration enforcement tools as high-impact, exempting them from the disclosure, impact-assessment, and appeal safeguards re…
Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat said agility — running small AI tests and pilots before scaling — is the most important skill for business leaders navigating applied AI, warning that companies should not ge…
A Stateline analysis of ICE data from Jan. 20, 2025, to March 10, 2026, found that states with strict non-cooperation policies—Oregon, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington—have the low…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics' SPOT robots, four-legged machines equipped with cameras and Wi-Fi that can travel at speeds up to abo…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million to equip officers with electric shock gloves, drawing outrage from Democratic officials and civil rights ad…
USA Today journalists, represented by The News Guild, are demanding that USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) immediately end its partnership with Palantir, citing ethical concerns over the AI surveillance…
Roopika Risam, a Dartmouth professor, argues in her new book "Data Empire" that data collection has always been about power, tracing it from Ice Age cave markings to modern AI systems. Her research, s…
Palantir insiders expressed disgust after the company's head of strategic engagement shared an AI-generated propaganda video featuring cult imagery, causing an internal meltdown. Employees have previo…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security purchased two California immigrant detention centers from CoreCivic for $1.5 billion, including the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego for $739.2 million. The sal…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil l…
President Donald Trump announced Saturday he is nominating former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, praising him as a patriot with deca…
Meta's new Applied AI team, created to support its Superintelligence Labs, is suffering from record-low morale amid layoffs, surveillance initiatives, and soul-crushing busywork, with employees descri…
The United States is facing a significant shortage of construction workers, exacerbated by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, which has reduced the industry's immigrant workforce. A Nat…
The FBI is planning to purchase nationwide, "near real-time" access to data from automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the United States, according to procurement records. The agency stated i…
The Seattle Shield is an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle Police Department that includes members from Facebook, Amazon, ICE, and other private and public entities. Established in …
Palantir held a spring hack week to develop new oversight tools for its software used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), aiming to address inte…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted a federal procurement notice on May 8, 2026, seeking a contractor to provide maintenance and security for mothballed warehouses, with an estimated cont…
Contracts obtained through a public records request reveal that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) included a detainee labor program in task orders for two warehouse detention facilities i…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locations nationwide under a no-bid contract with Bi2 Technologies. Th…