Aleksandra Urman

Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate Copilot “can help with routine Senate work, including drafting and editing documents, summarizing information, preparing talking points and briefing material, and conducting research and analysis,”...

Copilot “can help with routine Senate work, including drafting and editing documents, summarizing information, preparing talking points and briefing material, and conducting research and analysis,” the memo says.

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

There’s no handbook or program for how to talk to a friend or family member who is falling into AI psychosis. So after many people contacted us clearly suffering from these delusions, we spoke to mental health experts. Here’s what they suggest: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Now that’s a corridor!

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

I just find it all so tiresome, because LLMs are so horribly suited for what they want them to do. It’s like if the military designated the Magic 8 Ball a supply chain risk. And the media responded by fawning over Mattel’s brave ethical stand, and wondering what the Origami Fortune Teller would do.

Switzerland is also one of the most politically exclusive democracies.

New official data show that only ≈60% of all residents have political rights.

And given Switzerland’s low voter turnout, a small minority (roughly a quarter of all residents who vote regularly) ends up deciding for the majority

Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights.
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Die 10 deutschsprachigen Accounts, die in den letzten 12 Monaten auf X die meisten Interaktionen gesammelt haben: Rechte Krawall-Blogger, Fake News-Schleudern, AfD-Politiker·innen und die Welt.
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‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

Newer, Larger, Better? A Critique of the Unreflective LLM Adoption in Communication Research The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) in political communication research has prompted excitement but also concern. In this opinion piece, we offer an informed and critical overview ...

🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates
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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.

Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia

Dutch defense chief: F-35s can be jailbroken like iPhones : No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore

"I'm going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone."

Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:

Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...

🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday.

With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.

Wisst ihr noch, die "Freiheitstrychler" aus der Pandemie, die sich für Freiheit einsetzen? Was machen die heute so?

Sie reisen nach Moskau, um zu protestieren - und zwar gegen die Schweiz. Begleitet durch Russia Today.

Barbra Streisand behind some stony walls..."want to contribute to the streisand effect?"

Republik.ch trägt die finanziellen und rechtlichen Kosten/Risiken.

Aber bitte spendet unbedingt auch an meine CO-Autor:innen der #Palantir-Recherche des WAV Recherchekollektiv, die alles initiiert haben! wav.info/support

Für weiteren demokratie-relevanten Investigativjournalismus.

I think this will be useful also for teaching/sharing with students this semester :))

This looks really cool!

Oh looks like you made a very cool resource! Also glad our data was useful for that :)

I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.

Russland: Fünf Staaten erklären Nawalnys Vergiftung im Straflager In Gewebeproben Alexej Nawalnys ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Gift Epibatin gefunden worden. Für mehrere europäische Staaten steht damit fest: Der Putin-Kritiker wurde vor zwei Jahren in einem russischen Lager vergiftet.

In Gewebeproben Alexej Nawalnys ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Gift Epibatin gefunden worden. Für mehrere europäische Staaten steht damit fest: Der Putin-Kritiker wurde vor zwei Jahren in einem russischen Lager vergiftet.

Migrationskontrolle: Ein KI-Chatbot von Frontex soll zu Selbst-Abschiebung beraten Die europäische Grenzschutzagentur Frontex entwickelt derzeit eine App mit integriertem Chatbot. Der soll Geflüchtete dabei beraten, wie sie

Frontex arbeitet an einer „KI“, die zu Abschiebungen beraten soll. Da zeigen sich die unzureichenden Stellen der KI-Verordnung: Der Einsatz stelle kein hohes Risiko dar, so die Behörde netzpolitik.org/2026/migrati...