Pentagon surveillance, Artificial Intelligence lab tensions, and rising fears from Geoffrey Hinton

Tensions between the Pentagon and leading Artificial Intelligence labs are sharpening legal and ethical questions over surveillance, while Geoffrey Hinton warns that the technology he helped create could still end in disaster.
Artificial intelligence dashboards turn Iran conflict into real-time spectacle

New wartime intelligence dashboards built with artificial intelligence tools promise real-time insight into the Iran conflict but risk turning it into entertainment and spreading confusion. Open-source feeds, prediction markets, and synthetic imagery are colliding to create more noise than understanding.
Nvidia artificial intelligence chip sale to ByteDance stalls on Trump era export conditions

Nvidia’s proposed sale of artificial intelligence chips to ByteDance is conditioned on rules set under the Trump administration and aligned restrictions on rival products from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.