Why Are Google’s Workers Unionizing Over a Deal with the US Military?
In May 2026, the Pentagon formally partnered with Google DeepMind, Google’s London-based AI laboratory, granting the U.S. military access to Gemini AI [...]
The Technofascism in Palantir’s Manifesto for Normal Human Beings
On April 18th, Palantir published an X post with 22-point manifesto taken from the book “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, [...]
How did the wrong AI get blamed for the US bombing of a school in Iran?
When US forces reported the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, during the opening stage of Operation Epic [...]
AI in 2025: Independent research and what we learned
I work with AI systems, however, my work is not about producing AI content. It focuses on transparency in AI development, deployment, [...]
Teacher used Generative AI for CSAM: The misuse of a “democratised” technology
A Florida 6th-grade teacher, David McKeown, has been sentenced to 135 years in prison for generating child sexual abuse material using artificial [...]
AI Toys: From Children’s Play to Surveillance, BDSM Advice and Knife Recommendations
Remember when toys were only a choking hazard? Back when the worst thing a parent had to worry about was a child [...]
The Palantir Problem: War, Surveillance and the Collapse of Boundaries
Palantir is everywhere lately. Their stock is treated like a geopolitical prophecy. Alex Karp shows up in interviews delivering lines with the [...]
When LLMs choose blackmail and murder over shutdown: Anthropic’s Agentic Misalignment
By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines: an AI model blackmailed an employee just to avoid being shut down. In another trial, [...]
Generative AI vs. Copyright: From Disney’s Silence to Anthropic’s Book Bonfire Lawsuit
In our last article on Disney & Universal v. Midjourney, we warned that the case was just the opening act of a [...]
Can Claude Run a Business? A Critical Look at Anthropic’s Project Vend
On June 27th, Anthropic published Project Vend, a controlled experiment testing whether its language model, Claude, could manage a small office snack store. [...]