On July 2, 2026 the Financial Times reported that Sam Altman has been pitching Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent - and, in a bid for bipartisan cover, Senator Bernie Sanders - on a proposal: OpenAI would allocate 5% of its capital, roughly $42.6
Between late June and mid-July 2026, six research teams - an academic pair at the Alan Turing Institute, a university-industry team spread across Tel Aviv University, the Technion, and Intuit, a lab at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a boutique firm called Sand Security Research, Varonis, and a
The framing of shadow AI as a data protection problem is intuitive and almost entirely wrong. The intuitive version: an employee connects a personal AI assistant to their work email, the assistant processes confidential client communications, the data leaves the organisational perimeter. Article 33 breach. Notification obligation. Supervisory authority investigation.
Isonomia described a settlement. One page, signed by the acting Attorney General, that left the United States permanently barred from examining the taxes of a sitting President. The problem was precise: a law that formally applied to everyone had been quietly amended, for one party, by bilateral agreement. The form
Last week this site spent ten minutes on a single page of paper: the one-page addendum, signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, that left the United States "forever barred and precluded" from examining the taxes of Donald Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization. The mechanism, the
In June 2026, the United States government directed Anthropic to suspend access to its most capable models - Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - for foreign nationals. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to Dario Amodei: the two models would be subject to export controls to any location outside the US,
On 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Fable 5. Buried in the model's 319-page system card was a paragraph disclosing that the model would, under certain conditions, quietly degrade its own usefulness. The trigger was a specific category of work: frontier AI capability research - building pretraining pipelines, distributed
The mechanics of the Derbyshire case are, by now, familiar enough to serve as outline. A police officer is under investigation - for perverting the course of justice - over the alleged use of AI to create evidential material in a number of criminal cases. The officer has been removed
The most consequential legal document of 2026 so far is one page long. It was added - quietly, the way important things are added - to the settlement of a lawsuit Donald Trump filed over the 2018 leak of his tax returns to The New York Times. The page says
In April 2024, a public figure in Austria asked ChatGPT for their date of birth. ChatGPT got it wrong. This is not, in itself, remarkable. Large language models generate incorrect information routinely; the industry calls it hallucination, a term that implies the system is perceiving something that isn't
The PyTorch Lightning poisoning lasted forty-two minutes. In that window - between the malicious release and its quarantine - any organisation running the compromised version in an environment that processed personal data was executing attacker-controlled code. The data controller's GDPR compliance programme had not changed. Their privacy policy
Maryland became the first US state to ban AI surveillance pricing in grocery stores in May 2026. The Federal Trade Commission sanctioned Cox Media Group in the same period for representing that its AI could target consumers by listening through device microphones - and explicitly rejected Terms and Conditions as