{"id":2930,"date":"2026-03-09T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:44:11","slug":"the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=2930","title":{"rendered":"The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA\u2019s collection of bulk metadata from the phones of Americans, the US is still navigating a gap between what ordinary people think and what the law allows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, the legal complexity has a new edge: AI is supercharging surveillance\u2014and our laws haven\u2019t caught up. Read the full story.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Michelle Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 The White House has tightened its AI rules amid the Anthropic spat<\/strong><br \/>New guidelines require companies to allow &#8220;any lawful&#8221; use of their \u200cmodels. (FT $)<br \/><em>+ London\u2019s mayor has slammed Trump\u2019s treatment of Anthropic and invited the firm to expand in the city. <\/em>(BBC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 A satellite firm has stopped sharing imagery after exposing Iranian strikes<\/strong><br \/>Planet Lab said it wants to stop \u201cadversarial actors\u201d from using the data. (Ars Technica)<br \/><em>+ AI is turbocharging the conflict in Iran. <\/em>(WSJ $)<em><br \/>+ War is adding a brutal new element to the country&#8217;s internet issues. <\/em>(Wired $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 The OpenAI-Anthropic feud is getting messy<\/strong><br \/>The Pentagon contract controversy has intensified a deeply personal animosity between the founders. (NYT $)<br \/>+ <em>Sam Altman and Dario Amodei\u2019s rivalry could reshape the future of AI. <\/em>(WSJ $)<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>+ OpenAI\u2019s robotics lead has quit over concerns about surveillance and \u201clethal autonomy.\u201d <\/em>(TechCrunch)<br \/><em>+ The company\u2019s DoD \u201ccompromise\u201d has brought Anthropic\u2019s fears to life. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #murky #surveillance #laws #White #House #cracks #defiant #labs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. 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