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Microsoft’s Azure Investigation: How Unit 8200’s Surveillance Tests Cloud Sovereignty
Microsoft has launched an urgent external investigation into allegations that Israel’s signals intelligence Unit 8200 used its Azure cloud platform to store and process millions of intercepted...
NewsGuard’s De-Anonymized Audit Exposes How Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Copilot Amplify Fake News at 35% Rate
A year-long red-teaming audit by NewsGuard has laid bare a startling deterioration in AI chatbot accuracy: the top 10 consumer chatbots now repeat false claims in 35% of their news-related responses,...
Why Microsoft Copilot’s NFL Predictions Heavily Favor 27-Point Wins and Star Quarterbacks
USA TODAY Sports this week handed Microsoft Copilot a deceptively simple task: predict the winner and final score of every NFL Week 1 matchup. What emerged was a tidy headline-ready slate that...
Two Years to AI 2027: Experts Issue a Practical Playbook to Avert AI Catastrophe
A former OpenAI researcher’s scenario warns that a superhuman coder could emerge by early 2027, triggering an intelligence explosion that reshapes civilization within months. Daniel Kokotajlo, who...
Missouri AG Demands AI Giants Hand Over Chatbot Ranking Secrets in Trump Bias Probe
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an unprecedented legal broadside against artificial intelligence developers, sending formal demand letters to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta...
AI Chatbots Now Train on Your Conversations by Default – Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy
Anthropic’s decision to switch Claude’s default settings and begin tapping consumer chat data for model training has jolted the AI world, forcing users to take immediate steps if they want to...
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Vows Investigation After Employees Storm Office Over Azure Israel Surveillance Claims
Microsoft President Brad Smith told reporters on August 26, 2025, that the company would “go investigate and get to the truth” after a group of current and former employees occupied his Redmond...
Brad Smith Pledges Independent Investigation After Azure Surveillance Allegations Surface
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, has personally pledged to launch an externally supervised investigation into how the company’s Azure cloud services may have been used by Israeli military...
New 'Woke AI' Ban Shakes Up Pentagon Cloud Race for AWS, Microsoft, Google
The U.S. Department of Defense has embarked on an aggressive pivot to artificial intelligence, embedding it as a strategic backbone for missions ranging from logistics to battlefield decision-making....
YouTube Secretly Altered Shorts Using Machine Learning—Now an Opt-Out Is on the Way
YouTube’s quiet experiment to polish Shorts clips with machine learning has ignited a firestorm among creators who say the platform altered their work without permission—and without disclosure....
Protests and Arrests at Microsoft HQ as Azure Surveillance Claims Prompt External Audit
Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s campus became the scene of a dramatic confrontation this week as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed red paint on the company’s iconic...
Arkane Lyon Union Demands Microsoft Halt Cloud Ties to Israeli Military as Azure Ethics Storm Grows
A small group of Arkane Lyon developers has broken Microsoft's public silence with an uncompromising demand: cut all contracts and technical cooperation with Israeli security forces, or accept...