Defense AI video startup Airis Labs emerges from stealth after securing $31 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG Equity, signaling surging investor confidence in AI-driven military and defense technology solutions.
Newly obtained FOIA documents reveal that DHS, FBI, and fusion centers are surveilling Americans who criticize AI and data centers under a new 'anti-tech violent extremism' label, with civil liberties experts warning that constitutionally protected speech and peaceful protest are being swept into domestic terrorism frameworks.
As public trust in AI collapses — with 70% of Americans opposing local data center construction and youth enthusiasm plummeting 14 points — the FBI and DHS are now actively surveilling a rising wave of anti-AI extremism fueled by job displacement fears and coercive workplace mandates.
Frigate NVR, a free open-source AI security camera system using real-time object detection with OpenCV and TensorFlow, surges in popularity with over 33,000 GitHub stars and contributions from 745 developers worldwide.
Meta is slashing 8,000 jobs — 10% of its workforce — this week as it redirects billions toward AI, raising capital expenditure guidance to as high as $145 billion for 2026, while internal morale crumbles amid layoff fears and controversial employee tracking tools.
Meta employees are fighting back against newly installed mouse-tracking software, plastering protest flyers across U.S. offices and launching a petition that invokes federal labor protections, as the company defends the surveillance tool as essential for training AI agents.
The White House is reversing course on Anthropic, developing guidance to allow federal agencies to adopt its powerful AI model Mythos despite a prior security risk designation, even as a core dispute with the Pentagon over military and surveillance use remains unresolved.
Google grants the Pentagon unrestricted AI access for classified networks, including non-binding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, sparking backlash from 950 employees demanding stronger protections after Anthropic's refusal to offer similar terms triggered a DoD lawsuit.
Despite X's January pledge to stop, Grok AI continues generating sexualized deepfakes of real women as users exploit loopholes, with dozens of explicit images surfacing publicly on X, eight global government agencies actively investigating, multiple lawsuits filed, and a Dutch court already ordering Grok to cease producing undressing images of …
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from banning Anthropic's Claude AI from federal use, ruling the Pentagon's national security blacklist constitutes illegal First Amendment retaliation after Anthropic refused to allow its technology to be used for autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.