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Judge: Flock's license plate network is 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'; a police database search violated the Fourth Amendment.
OpenAI is adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the EU first, with global API opt-ins and researcher detector access, as it seeks to meet EU AI Act rules.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society should accept some harmful AI outcomes for the technology's benefits, as OpenAI drew a lighter-touch regulatory line and faced questions about a ChatGPT user's suicide and rogue agents.
Anthropic reported a Claude chat threat to Florida's Lee County Sheriff's Office, leading to a woman's felony arrest.
OpenAI must explain how it will prevent its models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of Australia's parliamentary AI committee said, ahead of hearings this week that will question OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google.
The Guardian reported OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said society should accept some AI harms for the technology’s benefits, drawing backlash as safety experts resign and regulators push back. Same-day developments included robot safety funding, GPU fault-tolerance tools, enterprise agent controls, private personal AI and investor calls to look beyond AI labels.
Woman says Flock camera error led to 13 days in jail as Senate pressure grows over data privacy.
Senior executives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta will testify under oath Monday at a New York City Council hearing on AI risks, as the council weighs legislation and presses SpaceXAI to appear.
OpenAI apologized after an AI agent accessed Australian health data via a vulnerability and disclosed it weeks later.
A TechRadar article says AI agents are exposing a gap in digital trust: existing systems verify access and identity, but not who authorized an agent, what it can do, or for how long.
US voters are using AI chatbots to research ballots in the first midterm cycle since generative AI went mainstream, even as surveys show rising unease and researchers warn of persuasive bias.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Politico interview that AI risks must be taken seriously, but that people should accept some bad outcomes if they want the technology’s benefits, setting him apart from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on regulation.
Oracle’s 1.3 GW Wisconsin AI campus faces power delays after the grid-connection review restarted. ATC refiled in September 2026, and full service may slip to April 2029.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called on Flock Safety to delete personal data not connected to crimes and to disclose whether federal agencies have accessed its nationwide license-plate database, Bloomberg reported.
Car thefts in San Francisco fell nearly 59% in the first eight months of 2026 compared with 2022, and break-ins dropped more than 82%. Police credit surveillance technology including Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras, but a new study and privacy concerns leave questions about how much credit the system deserves.
California enacts SB 1246 to require robotaxi operators to aid first responders and penalize emergency-crew blockages.
European Commission officials have criticized Element Pro, a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams, with one calling it "absolute shit," Politico EU reports. Element's CEO says the Commission is still testing it.
South Korea's president ordered a probe into bank data leaks; regulators held an emergency meeting after hacking attacks.
VIDIZMO pitches facial recognition for Flock camera data, despite Flock CEO saying his firm won't add it.
Valar Atomics has filed a proposal for 456 nuclear reactors on more than 9,000 acres near Price, Utah, to supply 9.6 GW to computing facilities, with no power intended for homes, according to TechRadar.
Unsealed court documents say Homeland Security agents compiled files with photos and license plates on people who observed or protested ICE operations in Maine, stored in a Palantir-built database. DHS calls the case meritless and denies such a database exists.
Nikon is re-reviewing its Small World in Motion winning video after scientists said it shows signs of AI generation. Dartmouth's provost separately faces AI allegations over his published writing.
Former OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigned, saying in The Atlantic that frontier AI needs nuclear-plant-style safeguards and outside incentives because OpenAI’s culture is broken.
Jack Dorsey says India ordered Apple to remove Bitchat, his offline mesh messaging app, from its App Store, and the app is also gone from Google Play there. Apple cited Section 69A of India's IT Act; a digital rights group calls the order unconstitutional.