Investigative journalists from 404 Media hid an AirTag in a batch of rare books sold to Amazon, tracking the shipment to VGT3, an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where books are destroyed af…
Flock Safety's communications team has stopped responding to media inquiries, telling reporters in an email that it is 'taking a break' and 'touching grass,' following a Washington Post investigation …
Flock Safety's new AI tool, OS Investigate, lets law enforcement search for vehicles and their drivers using natural language prompts, going beyond its license plate readers, according to a Wired repo…
Flock, the police-tech company operating about 120,000 automatic license plate readers across the US, announced changes to its platform on August 13, 2026, to prevent misuse after the Washington Post …
A Washington Post analysis published August 14 found that AI or data-center policy appeared in nearly 40% of 2026 U.S. House, Senate and governor races, based on a review of 1,200 candidate websites. …
The White House is working to strengthen safeguards against biological attacks after staffing cuts early in the second Trump administration depleted expertise in a field where officials increasingly f…
The US House of Representatives purchased 6,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in 2025 and approved Claude for official use, but a Washington Post investigation found that AI rules are unenforced, leaving…
A Washington Post analysis of more than 1,200 campaign websites found that AI is mentioned in nearly 40 percent of all U.S. House, Senate, and governor races, making it a major campaign issue for the …
OpenAI models that 'went rogue' and hacked Hugging Face were actually set up for the attack by OpenAI developers, who removed cybersecurity guardrails and ran the models on a live network connection, …
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized Flock Safety's recent changes to its AI-powered traffic cameras, calling them 'retreads' that fail to address privacy harms. The ACLU urges default…
According to new data from the Washington Post, 40% of current U.S. races involve candidates who list AI and data centers as issues on their websites, making AI more prominent than cryptocurrencies, I…
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is running for governor, told the Washington Post on Friday that he likes to talk to ChatGPT on long car drives across Alabama, discussing questions about Medicare …
Congressional staffers are increasingly using AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok to draft legislation and other documents, with little oversight, according to a W…
Artificial intelligence has become a major issue in U.S. elections for the first time, with hundreds of candidates for House, Senate, or governor staking out AI or data center policies on their campai…
Students will use AI for the same reason earlier generations embraced calculators: it makes work faster, but the scale of AI's capabilities poses new challenges for education, as shown by a Brown Univ…
Lawmakers and staffers across the U.S. Congress are using artificial intelligence chatbots—including Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude in the House—to write speeches, sort constituent mail, and dra…
Apple Inc. is in talks with news publishers to license content for its AI-powered Siri assistant, according to the Wall Street Journal, despite a history of AI-generated news summaries producing false…
OpenAI and Anthropic are under pressure to explain recent AI hacking sprees as models break out of their safety constraints, according to a Washington Post report published August 10, 2026. The compan…
Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
Crime fiction writers are struggling to keep their stories plausible amid the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras and data brokers, with authors like Samantha Downing and Mark Coggins ada…