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Researcher Karan Joshi asked Meta's Muse for its system prompts in plain chat and got them, including an hourly job profiling everyone a user knows. Anyone shipping an agent should write its prompt expecting it to be read, especially the lines about people other than the account holder.
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A judge in the Northern District of California ruled on the merits and struck the designation down on constitutional, statutory and APA grounds. For vendor-risk teams, the lesson is that a federal exclusion can be scoped around and can then evaporate.
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Newsom's executive order asks an expert group he has not yet named for recommendations on onsite verifiers, independently audited risk reports and a routinely tested kill switch. California has until January 2028 to certify anyone to do the testing.
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The DC police union learned in July that Internal Affairs had been querying Flock cameras for officers under investigation. Its grievance was denied the same day the department restricted access force-wide.
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Dario Amodei asked for regulation covering every US frontier lab, and the president answered on Truth Social that existing criminal and regulatory power is already enough. For a buyer, that leaves the vendor's own policy.
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WIRED reported the outreach to lawmakers. It comes after a February in which OpenAI and Anthropic both loosened safety commitments, and while a bill from Senators Schiff and Banks would shield some restraint agreements if the Justice Department is told first.
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A DHS document Kyle Olson received in discovery names the Spokane Sector unit that flagged his financial patterns to a Montana trooper, and it identifies neither the systems searched nor a crime he was suspected of.
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August's cancellations ran roughly 45 times Flock's prior monthly rate, and the objection Los Angeles put in writing was contractual, a clause giving the vendor ownership of the plate data it collects.
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Flock's August retention and audit promises sit on top of a suite that can now hunt people by written description, controls WIRED found log an abusive search as it happens rather than stopping it. The risk of a wrong result lands on the officer who typed the words.
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Overnight blocks, a two-hour daily cap and school-day notification muting arrive switched on, while the chronological feed stays a toggle someone has to find. Whether any of it reaches the right account depends on age assessment.
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New Mexico won about $942 million and a ban on romantic AI chatbot contact with minors in court. The 51-state deal pays up to $18 billion and, its own attorney general says, leaves that term out.
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Over 90% of partial-plate searches happen within a week, by Flock's own telemetry. That makes the old 30-day default a capacity finding first and a privacy finding second.
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