Online age verification tools for children’s safety monitor adults
CNBC · March 8
Half of US states now force every user to go through AI-powered identity gateways to protect children, creating a blanket surveillance infrastructure that has caused site traffic to collapse in states where it’s enforced.
#QuitGPT: 2.5 million users fleeing ChatGPT; Cloud hits #1 on the App Store
TechCrunch · March 1
OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon sparked the biggest AI consumer backlash ever — ChatGPT uninstalls soared 295%, Claude’s daily subscriptions quadrupled, and Anthropic’s app beat ChatGPT for the first time in the US App Store.
Humanitarian Claims Pentagon Hostility Could Cost Billions
TechCrunch · March 9
Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits challenging its “supply chain risk” designation — a designation never before used against a domestic company — arguing that the Pentagon is retaliating for its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of artificial intelligence.
The UK is eyeing sweeping powers to regulate technology
Computing.co.uk · March 9
The UK government is seeking broad executive powers to regulate online harms through the Child Welfare Bill – and legal experts warn those same powers could be used as a weapon by populist governments in the future.
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises $1.03 billion to build ‘global models’
TechCrunch · March 10
LeCun, a Turing Award winner, left Meta, calling LLM courses “complete nonsense” as a path to true intelligence, and raised $1 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation for a Paris-based startup building artificial intelligence that understands physical reality — backed by Bezos, Nvidia, Schmidt and Cuban.
Fake AI content about the Iran war has ended everywhere
CNN · March 10
AI-generated fake war footage racks up tens of millions of views on
Oracle plans to lay off between 20,000 and 30,000 employees to fund its AI data centers
Yahoo Finance/Bloomberg · March 5
Oracle is cutting up to 18% of its workforce to free up $8 billion to $10 billion for AI infrastructure, the most glaring example yet of a company outright firing humans to pay for AI, while U.S. banks pull out of financing expansion.
Children would be banned from using Chatbots in Minnesota AI bill
CBS News · March 10
Minnesota’s bipartisan AI bills — which prohibit minors’ use of chatbots, ban surveillance pricing, and restrict AI in health insurance — suggest that states are becoming the de facto regulators of AI in the absence of federal action.
OpenAI and Google Workers brief Amicus for Anthropic
TechCrunch · March 9
More than 30 employees from competing companies — including Google’s chief scientist Jeff Dean — told a federal court that if the Pentagon could blacklist a company to set safety limits, no AI developer would be safe.
Microsoft: Hackers are abusing artificial intelligence at every stage of cyberattacks
Microsoft Security Blog · March 7
Threat actors are now using generative AI across the entire attack lifecycle — with one Russian-speaking hacker breaching more than 600 firewalls in five weeks using AI, a scale that previously required an entire team.
Justice Department lawyer resigns ahead of judicial rebuke over AI-laden brief
Bloomberg Law · March 10
A federal prosecutor for 30 years has resigned after filing a brief containing fabricated citations for the use of artificial intelligence, calling it the worst decision of his career and asserting that even experienced professionals fall victim to AI hallucinations.
Anthropic is seeking to retract the “supply chain risk” designation.
NPR · March 9
The first-ever use of supply chain risk profiling against a domestic US company sets a precedent that could reshape how every AI company negotiates with the military — all because Anthropic drew two red lines on surveillance and autonomous weapons.
