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Axon Says AI Police Reports Save Time. Public Records Show They Get Facts Wrong
More than 600,000 police reports have been written with help from Axon’s AI tools. Public records obtained by Forbes show that they can introduce errors that cops have to spend time editing out.
The Pentagon Is Using This $1.2 Billion Startup’s AI To Automate Cyberwarfare
Khosla Ventures is putting $30 million into Twenty, a cyber startup that uses AI models to run hacking campaigns for the Department of War.
Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’
As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organizations.
The Backlash Against Flock
CISA went without access to Anthropic’s advanced cyber AI for months, but now a limited number of staff are using it to find plenty of bugs.
Israel’s Palantir Rival Is Selling $1 Million Spy Vans To U.S. Cops
Cognyte, which sells technology to snoop on phone locations largely in Israel and Europe, is making inroads in America by tricking out trucks with spy tech.
A US Cyber Agency Is Finally Using Anthropic’s Mythos
CISA went without access to Anthropic’s advanced cyber AI for months, but now a limited number of staff are using it to find plenty of bugs.
Qihoo 360: The Cyber Giant Behind China’s Mythos Rival
A Chinese cybersecurity giant with various ties to China's cyber surveillance agencies claims to have developed a powerful AI to rival Anthropic's Mythos.
Russia Hacked A Dissident’s iPhone With Banned Israeli Tech, Records Show
Israeli surveillance company Cellebrite ended sales to Russia in early 2021. A few months later, Russia used its tech to search a prominent opponent of the regime, new research indicates.
Court Stops DOJ From Forcing Apple, Google To Hand Over 100,000 People’s Information
Government had ordered Apple, Google and Amazon to provide identifying data of over 100,000 users of a car tinkering app.
Cyber Experts Urge White House To Reverse Ban On Anthropic’s Fable Model
Anthropic has taken Fable offline after a US order to stop selling to non-American users. Cyber experts and customers are calling for it to reverse the ban.