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Google is Tracking Your Life – Photo Cloud Feeding AI System

  There was a time when your photo album sat in a drawer, private, personal, and disconnected from the outside world. Privacy no longer exists in the modern...

Pentagon Requests $54 Billion for AI War

The Pentagon has requested $54 billion for artificial intelligence–driven warfare, a figure that dwarfs prior allocations and signals a decisive shift in how...

Data Harvesting in the Classroom

I have said for years that governments and institutions always begin with what people will accept and then gradually expand from there. What we are now seeing in...

Pokémon Go — The Largest Mapped Data Collection Ploy in History

When Pokémon Go was released, it appeared to be a harmless game encouraging people to go outside and explore, yet beneath that surface was a far more sophisticated...

The Rise of AI in Payments Is Not About Convenience

Visa has just unveiled a new suite of artificial intelligence tools designed to overhaul how credit card disputes are handled, and once again this is being...

Grandmother Falsely Imprisoned Thanks to AI Biometrics Fail

A grandmother, Angela Lipps, was arrested at gunpoint in her own home after facial recognition software flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in North...

AI, the Pentagon, and the Surveillance State

The resignation of Caitlin Kalinowski from OpenAI has triggered a debate that goes far beyond Silicon Valley. Kalinowski stepped down shortly after the company...

AI’s Power Hunger

The biggest constraint on artificial intelligence is not chips, software, or capital. It is electricity. Now the tech giants are finally admitting it. Seven major...

Electricity Crisis on the Horizon?

Official data already shows that US data centers consumed about 176 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023, representing roughly 4.4% of total electricity demand,...

Waymo Admits Vehicles are NOT Autonomous

Touted as cutting-edge AI technology, Waymo’s autonomous self-driving technology is actually based on a group of human operators based in the Philippines. A top...