The Department of Homeland Security diverted $20 million in Customs and Border Protection funds to produce and air campaign-style TV ads glorifying President Trump — ads critics say are nearly identical to his 2024 campaign commercials and likely violate federal anti-propaganda laws.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon has legal authority to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to remove ethical restrictions on its Claude AI models, even without any finding of malicious intent, creating a direct conflict with a separate federal court ruling that found the same action unlawful.
Flock Safety partnered with a newly created nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to use AI-assisted outreach to manufacture public support for its license plate reader cameras in Knox County, Tennessee — a campaign residents and critics have called corporate astroturfing.