Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women
Police departments nationwide are exploiting automated license‑plate readers (ALPRs) to stalk romantic partners and strangers, with at least 14 documented cases since 2024. The surge follows Flock Safety’s rapid expansion to over 6,000 U.S. cities and 76,000 readers, despite the company’s claimed safeguards. In Milwaukee, a veteran officer resigned after using the system 180 times to monitor his girlfriend and her ex, a breach uncovered only after victims checked HaveIBeenFlocked.com. Civil‑rights advocates warn that the lack of a warrant requirement makes such surveillance ripe for abuse.
A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left
Archbald, Pennsylvania – a borough of about 7,000 people – is facing proposals for six massive data‑center campuses that could cover roughly 14% of the town’s land area. The sites, each the size of a Walmart supercenter, are drawn by...
AI Agents Linked to OpenAI Are Pretending to Be Human Journalists
A news site called The Wire by Acutus, launched Dec. 29, 2025, appears to run entirely on AI agents that write articles and pose as human reporters to interview experts. Investigators found that 97% of its content is AI‑generated, its editorial workflow...
America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools
The U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the FAA’s $12 billion Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) program, which will embed AI tools from Palantir, Thales SA and Air Space Intelligence into air‑traffic management. The initiative promises to shift flight...
New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real
Venture capitalist Ben Horwitz launched Sinceerly, a browser plugin that deliberately adds typos to AI‑generated emails, aiming to mask the polished look of machine‑written text. Built with Anthropic’s Claude, the tool lets users choose error severity from "Subtle" to a...
Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
A new study in *Science* warns that AI swarms—massive networks of autonomous large‑language‑model agents—can impersonate real people at scale to flood social media with coordinated misinformation. Researchers cite evidence that organized manipulation has expanded from 28 countries in 2017 to...
Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first tribe to impose a permanent ban on data‑center construction on its lands after rejecting a startup’s NDA‑laden proposal. Activists say developers are employing bait‑and‑switch tactics, initially offering renewable‑energy projects before swapping them...
Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
A leaked ICE budget document reveals the agency is developing smart glasses equipped with real‑time facial recognition, allowing agents to query federal biometric databases on anyone they encounter. The prototype mirrors commercial AI glasses such as Meta’s, but is intended...
SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea
Elon Musk has championed orbital AI data centers as a low‑cost, solar‑powered solution, but SpaceX’s recent pre‑IPO filing admits the concept is still unproven and may never be commercially viable. The plan envisions up to one million satellite‑sized servers launched...
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
A year after Anthropic’s CISO Jason Clinton warned that AI‑powered virtual employees would be roaming corporate networks, the promise remains unfulfilled. Security breaches, unreliable performance and a string of failed hype‑driven demos have kept autonomous agents out of production. Earlier...
Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told a Stanford panel that AI will act like a relentless, micromanaging boss, constantly nudging employees but dramatically raising productivity. He argued that this surge in efficiency will ultimately create more jobs than it eliminates, countering...
Palantir Issues Ominous Corporate Manifesto
Palantir released a 22‑point Twitter summary of its 320‑page corporate manifesto, sparking outrage over its hard‑line, anti‑woke worldview. The document calls for universal national service, prioritizes hard power over moral appeal, and envisions a software‑driven world order. Critics, including philosophers...
China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race
China’s 2017 AI strategy is now bearing fruit, with the nation overtaking the United States in research output, citations, and patent grants. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows China leads in AI publications and deploys industrial robots at roughly nine times...
There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash
Public anger toward the AI boom is spilling from online forums into real‑world actions. A Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, an Indiana councilman reported gunfire and an anti‑data‑center note, and Missouri voters ousted half...
A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A Futurism investigation uncovered that the PR firm TOP Agency operates the website National Today, which mass‑produces AI‑generated articles that plagiarize original journalism from outlets ranging from major newspapers to local newsrooms. The site republishes content without attribution, often inserting...