The US military struck 1,000 targets in Iran in 24 hours using AI. Then a missile hit a girls’ school and killed 168 children. This is the story of Project Maven — and what AI in warfare actually looks like.
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A political group backed by Trump’s AI advisor is spending $100 million in the 2026 midterms to keep AI unregulated. Total pro-AI political spending has now exceeded $300 million. AI-backed candidates have won 10 of 11 primaries. This is what buying a regulatory environment looks like.
A Kenyan worker reviewed beheadings and child abuse videos for $2.20 an hour to train Meta’s AI. When he tried to organize, he was fired. This is what the AI economy looks like from the Global South — and why the gap between AI haves and have-nots is a design choice, not an accident.
When a drone kills the wrong person, someone is accountable. But when the decision to fire was made by an algorithm — in milliseconds, without human review — the accountability disappears into a legal black hole that nobody in power wants to close.
Autonomous Weapons: Who Is Responsible When AI Kills? Read More »
On October 7, 2023, two wars started simultaneously — one on the ground, one on your phone. Depending on which algorithm was feeding you content, you may have seen almost nothing of one of them. Here’s how platforms shape what you believe about conflict.
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A photograph on social media. A scramble in a Pentagon think tank. A budget line that quietly doubles. Nobody voted on the AI arms race — but it is already reshaping who controls the future of warfare, surveillance, and global power.
Uganda used Huawei facial recognition to track opposition leaders before an election. The cameras came from a “public safety” contract. This is the new geography of power — not borders drawn by armies, but dependencies created by AI infrastructure. And the map is being redrawn now.
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In 2022, Washington restricted all advanced chip sales to China — the most sweeping export control since the Cold War. It wasn’t about weapons. It was about AI. The new Cold War has found its technology, and neither side is slowing down.
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The Associated Press has been using AI to write articles since 2014. CNET published hundreds of AI-generated articles full of errors. Sports Illustrated used fake AI bylines. AI hasn’t come for journalism — it already arrived. And nobody in charge is asking the right questions.
