With AI we have built genies. Old stories told us how this goes. In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it,…
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A tool built to block Huawei and Hikvision now bans drones, routers, and solar inverters—undermining the security it was meant to protect. In 2021, President Biden signed the Secure Equipment Act. This act…
China’s “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency. On July 16, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Moonshot AI announced…
White House Unveils Program to Authorize Private-Sector Cyber Surveillance and Disruption Operations
The Aug. 12 presidential memorandum directing the creation of a private-sector hacking program raises novel questions for participants. On Aug. 12, President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum titled “Expanding Capabilities…
Remedying the risk of RKA to enterprises dependent on frontier AI. Certain species of wasps reproduce by laying eggs inside the bodies of caterpillars; when the eggs hatch, the larvae consume the caterpillars…
The Kingdom of Bahrain cannot claim immunity from a suit by exiled dissidents over harm caused by spyware surveillance on U.K. soil. On July 27, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom…
Our information flows aren’t just threatened by slop or foreign actors. They’re being reshaped by invisible decisions from AI companies. Plenty has been written about foreign actors manipulating information ecosystems with artificial…
Documents encoding AI models’ values are alignment’s highest-leverage point—regulating their contents hits the First Amendment. Over the past year, the federal government has grown intensely interested in the values embedded within and…
Hackers tried to break into at least 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota on July 26-27, 2026. Since then, Michigan, New Jersey and several other states have reported similar cyberattacks. The attackers…
A proposed Taiwanese law would draw lawmakers beyond their representative role and into direct involvement in private investment decisions. Amid a broader global turn toward securing semiconductor supply chains, Taiwan’s main opposition…
