gdpr
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
gdpr
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
surveillance-pricing
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
oauth
When a hacker wants access to a corporate system, they traditionally need something: a password, a session cookie, a phishing link clicked at the right moment. They need a human to make a mistake. The EvilTokens platform, documented in May 2026, had a better approach. It did not need mistakes.
anthropic
Anthropic raised $65 billion today at a post-money valuation of $965 billion. The company's stated purpose for the capital is to advance safety and interpretability research, expand compute capacity to meet demand, and scale products and partnerships. The CFO described the goal as helping Anthropic "stay at
surveillance
Surveillance infrastructure exceeds its limits in two directions. Horizontally, it finds new purposes. Cameras installed to catch car thieves are used to verify school enrolment. Routers installed for connectivity identify who is standing in the room. The data stays the same; the questions asked of it multiply. This is function
ai-agents
Last week, SQLite published AGENTS.md. For those unfamiliar with the format: AGENTS.md is a file that lives in a repository and tells AI agents working with that code how to behave. What they may do, what they may not do, where the traps are, which files are treated
ai-governance
In late March 2026, the Fundrise Innovation Fund - a closed-end fund trading under the ticker VCX, holding small stakes in SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Anduril, and a handful of other pre-IPO companies - started trading on a stock exchange. Within four days, the price had been bid up more than
ai-ethics
Pope Leo XIV has issued what appears to be the first papal encyclical specifically addressing artificial intelligence. Magnifica Humanitas - 42,300 words, signed 15. May 2026., presented to the world on 25. May 2026. with the author himself in attendance - calls for AI to serve humanity rather than
ai-governance
AI governance discourse tends to treat its ideological opposition as a matter of preference - people who value innovation over precaution, speed over safety, growth over regulation. This is a charitable reading. A more accurate reading identifies a coherent ideological programme that treats democratic oversight of technology not as a
openai
A California jury has ruled unanimously against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its leadership. The verdict took less than two hours. Musk lost. But not on the question that matters. The jury did not find that OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion was legitimate. It did not rule
supply-chain
In the thirty days between late April and late May 2026, the following software supply chain incidents reached public disclosure: a poisoned PyTorch Lightning release targeting AI training credentials; compromised Ruby Gems and Go modules stealing CI/CD pipeline credentials; a self-propagating worm through npm packages; AI-generated malware embedded in