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The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a “comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs” (www.washingtonpost.com)
5 hours ago

How the AI boom is reenergizing San Francisco, one of the slowest US cities to recover from the pandemic, with rising foot traffic and new commercial leases (www.washingtonpost.com)
3 days ago AI San Francisco

Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration (www.washingtonpost.com)
5 days ago Trump AI

Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (www.washingtonpost.com)
10 days ago China

A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (www.washingtonpost.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (www.washingtonpost.com)
12 days ago Android Google

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (www.washingtonpost.com)
14 days ago Blockchain Trump Asset

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets more than doubled from 2023 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to hacking-for-hire (www.washingtonpost.com)
15 days ago China

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to “hacking-for-hire” (www.washingtonpost.com)
15 days ago China

Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin (www.washingtonpost.com)
17 days ago Tesla

Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress (www.washingtonpost.com)
23 days ago AI

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
28 days ago Interview AI

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (www.washingtonpost.com)
28 days ago AI

Jim Chanos, who famously shorted Enron, calls Michael Saylor's bitcoin strategy “financial gibberish”, as Saylor inspires several copycats like Trump Media (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-30 Trump Bitcoin

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-19

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-12 AI 4Q

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-8

A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-5

ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot comparison: Claude was the best overall with the highest consistency and no hallucinations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-4

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-3 Trump

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-6-1 AI chatbot

Sources: the White House is finalizing EOs on drones that could end Chinese drone sales in the US, update federal rules on where drones can be flown, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-31 China Drone EOS

Chainalysis: the US government's top 20 crypto holdings are worth ~$20.9B as of May 28, including $20.4B in bitcoin, primarily derived from its seized crypto (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-29 Bitcoin

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-27 chatbot

Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-25 Elon Musk

Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-24 Trump China Budget

State lawmakers and AGs from both parties, Democrats, consumer advocates, and others oppose GOP's push to ban state AI regulations for the next 10 years (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-23 AI Ban Democrat Republican

Investigation: for two years, New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets using 200+ facial recognition cameras, seemingly violating a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-22 Facial Recognition

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition tech to scan city streets for two years, in apparent defiance of a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-20 Facial Recognition

Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-17 Job Market

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