OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"(techcrunch.com)

308 points by trakkstar 17 days ago | 201 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute the company's misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity(techcrunch.com)

78 points by mikelgan 28 days ago | 74 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that OpenAI still appears unable to fully control rogue AI activity tied to its systems.

Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache(techcrunch.com)

18 points by jamdesk 5 months ago | 6 comments

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM(techcrunch.com)

131 points by jackson-mcd 6 months ago | 41 comments

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras(techcrunch.com)

577 points by mikece 8 months ago | 390 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that people across the US are destroying Flock Safety license plate surveillance cameras.

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute(techcrunch.com)

185 points by elpakal 6 months ago | 100 comments

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms(techcrunch.com)

392 points by jbegley 7 months ago | 143 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau buys commercial location data to track US citizens, prompted by questioning from Sen. Wyden.

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns(techcrunch.com)

363 points by mentalgear 6 months ago | 123 comments

TechCrunch article on Citizen Lab research finding surveillance vendors abused telecom network access to track people's phone locations.

AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU(techcrunch.com)

415 points by geox 1 year ago | 339 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that AI systems deemed to pose 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU under the AI Act.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(techcrunch.com)

788 points by pluc 1 month ago | 681 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'