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Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, during a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. on May 8, 2025. (Photo: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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The problem with U.S. AI policy
By Andrew NuscaJuly 10, 2026
A person holding a protest sign sits with their legs crossed.
Cybersecurity
Ohio city workers are covering automated license plate readers with trash bags as officials sound the alarm on ‘egregious violations’ of privacy
By Sasha RogelbergJune 3, 2026
Double exposure photograph of a portrait of Mark Zuckerberg and a telephone displaying the Meta group s artificial intelligence logo at Kerlouan in Brittany in France on April 11 2025. (Photo by Vincent Feuray / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
AI
Meta will start tracking employees’ screens and keystrokes to train AI tools
By Eva RoytburgApril 21, 2026
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Cybersecurity
Your neighbor just got a home security system, but should you be worried? ‘It’s inherently a little creepy’ says surveillance expert
By Catherina GioinoApril 5, 2026
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Politics
Social media companies are scrambling to verify minors online. Congress just made it a lot more complicated
By Catherina GioinoMarch 18, 2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says there was ‘never a sense’ AI products would be used for domestic surveillance in Anthropic-DoD feud
AI
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says there was ‘never a sense’ AI products would be used for domestic surveillance in Anthropic-DoD feud
By Jessica MathewsMarch 13, 2026
Washington state wants to keep employers from microchipping workers, before anyone even gets the idea
Politics
Washington state wants to keep employers from microchipping workers, before anyone even gets the idea
By Catherina GioinoMarch 10, 2026
Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views
AI
Anthropic’s investors could be the key to ending its Pentagon standoff—but some investors have opposite views
By Jessica MathewsMarch 5, 2026
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Law
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes if people had more cameras, we may have already ‘solved’ the Nancy Guthrie case
By Catherina Gioino and Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMarch 3, 2026
A Boston police officer uses radar to track speeding vehicles
Cybersecurity
Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following Ring’s Super Bowl ad—that Flock ‘didn’t have anything to do with’
By Catherina GioinoMarch 3, 2026
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AI
Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal
By Beatrice NolanMarch 3, 2026
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Law
Amazon’s Ring decides maybe partnering with a police surveillance firm is a bad idea after wide revulsion at Super Bowl ad
By The Associated PressFebruary 16, 2026
Amazon’s Ring ends partnership with top operator of license-plate reading systems after Super Bowl ad raises fears of dystopian surveillance society
Law
Amazon’s Ring ends partnership with top operator of license-plate reading systems after Super Bowl ad raises fears of dystopian surveillance society
By The Associated PressFebruary 14, 2026
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Law
Google’s breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case is raising uncomfortable questions about how much it’s watching you
By Ashley LutzFebruary 11, 2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp during an interview at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Innovation
Palantir/ICE connections draw fire as questions raised about tool tracking Medicaid data to find people to arrest
By Tristan BoveJanuary 26, 2026
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