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The Verge (Gift Article): How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance. “Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? …
$2.3B spent in a “slow” month. February is historically a slow month for government spending. Despite that, CBP and ICE pushed more than $2.3B in contracts, which is an unusually high burn rate that signals this spending surge is only beginning. ICE is exponentially increasing capacity. ICE’s big moves included nearly $900M in warehouse acquisitions …
The Atlantic – Gift Article – The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime. By Anne Applebaum …The Islamic Republic is a theocracy founded explicitly to oppose the deepest principles of liberal democracy and the rule of law. During its 47-year reign, this theocratic state underwent no meaningful political …
Washington Post [no paywall] – “An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites…The database does not make clear which of the plaques, maps, films …
What is WorldMove? WorldMove is an open access worldwide human mobility dataset, we follow a generative AI-based approach to create a large-scale mobility dataset for cities worldwide. Our method leverages publicly available multi-source data, including population distribution, points of interest (POIs), and synthetic commuting origin-destination flow datasets, to generate realistic city-scale mobility trajectories. A global …
Via Reddit – J6 Timeline: “Hey all! I’m a J6 researcher that worked with SH and thinks that the misinformation presented in the White House’s J6 timeline is absolutely ridiculous. So in response, I made my own, much more accurate, J6 timeline as a standalone website.” j6times.com or j6timeline.com
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking – February 28, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
ICE Contracts Published on 2026-03-01 – Your Taxpayer Dollars Spent on the Following: Source: Department of Peace Countries: United States Download Size: 17.04 MB Download: Link Magnet: Link Torrent: Link This posting was done by anonymous person or persons: “Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies …
“The Pentagon’s version of Claude could not be used to facilitate the mass surveillance of Americans, nor could it be used in fully autonomous weaponry—situations where computers, rather than humans, make the final decision about whom to kill. According to a source familiar with this week’s meeting, Hegseth made clear that if Anthropic did not …
PC Mag: “Four data brokers have made their opt-out pages easier for internet users to find after a US senator’s investigation found the pages had been hidden from search engines. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) made the announcement on Friday after she pressured data brokers to make changes. “Hiding or burying opt-out options for data collection” …
The case is United States Postal Service v. Konan, U.S., No. 24-351, decided on 2/24/26. This Will Hold – “Yes, SCOTUS expanded USPS immunity from lawsuits over lost or misdelivered mail even if the nondelivery is alleged to be INTENTIONAL. Now layer that ruling with USPS’s updated postmark procedures. Ballots are not necessarily postmarked the …
Artificial Lawyer – February 27, 2026, lawyer Zack Shapiro published an article on X titled: ‘The Claude-Native Law Firm’ [also available on LinkeIn here] It has been viewed over 7 million times and primarily covers the fact that at his small US firm he used the ‘Skills’ facility in Anthropic’s Claude. The reaction was incredible. …
