Sam digs into the data economy and the markets that prefer to stay invisible. Their investigations have prompted two FTC referrals; they work in documents, court filings and patience.
A security firm's forensic report says an AI agent ran a real ransomware attack from break-in to ransom note with no human steering each step. Read what the report actually establishes — and where it stops.
Project Akrites gives the volunteer-run code underneath banks, hospitals and power grids one confidential place to report the flaws AI can now find in minutes — and quietly makes a private consortium the maintainer of last resort. Read who's funding it, and what the announcement doesn't say.
An executive order signed June 2 bars any "mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting" for frontier AI. Three weeks later, no one can buy OpenAI's most powerful model without the government clearing them by name — and the criteria are not written down anywhere.
The state attorneys general aren't asking about the science. They're asking about advertising, retention, health data, and a model built to agree with you — the vocabulary of consumer protection, aimed at a product about to go public.
A drugmaker's most valuable secret used to be its files. This week a criminal group put the company's trained drug-discovery models and a half-terabyte of lab images up for private sale — and the security posture protecting them was an ordinary code repository.
Washington invoked export-control authority to bar every foreign national — including Anthropic's own employees — from Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Complying meant switching them off for everyone. The evidence, the company says, was delivered out loud.
A breach notice filed with Maine's attorney general shows Meta's AI support agent reset account emails for anyone who asked — for six weeks before the company noticed, while takeovers of the Obama White House account circulated on Telegram.
Anthropic's vulnerability-finding model is now scanning power, water, and healthcare systems across 15 countries. The tool that patches them is, by construction, the tool that could break them.
A retaliatory wave of Windows zero-days has put Microsoft's Security Response Center on the defensive — and reopened a decade-old question about who gets paid, who gets credited, and who gets called a criminal.
Face recognition, plate readers and worker monitoring now reach from a parking lot to a deportation file. The contracts say who is paying, and who is being watched.
Your driver's license, your résumé, your voice: a documented chain runs from the thing you lost to the model that learned from it — and you are not allowed to know where it stops.
