Who Says No?
For nine months, states, criminals and lone operators used artificial intelligence to harm people. What’s important for us to know is that no country, anymore, has sovereign authority to refuse or deny permission to a bad actor who uses AI to harm people.
Three Hours to Take a Company Apart
A Russian spy service, two undergraduates in Hunan and one man in France now attack the same way. The thing that used to tell them apart has stopped working.
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How to Build a Newsroom That Does Not Exist
Seventy fake outlets. Nearly nine thousand articles in twenty languages. One advertising agency in France. And in Malaysia, a platform that profiled voters in all 222 seats.
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One Man, Twenty-Five Million Phones
A consultant in Bamako built a national wiretap. In China, a department of analysts became a single desk. The price of surveilling an entire population has collapsed.
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A Rocket Test in Yemen, a Grant Application in an Hour
Six weapons programmes and five biology labs used AI on things designed to kill. Nearly all of them won by the same trick: cutting the work into pieces too small to refuse.
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Stolen Keys, Fake Matches, and 151 Million Conversations
A black market in AI access, dating apps where three of every four women were software, and seven Chinese labs that copied an American model’s mind.
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