A group of 50 people orchestrated a denial-of-service attack by ordering Waymos onto the same San Francisco dead-end street, forcing the service to suspend rides until the next morning. The incident disabled Waymo rides on a specific dead-end street starting the day of the coordinated order pileup and lasted until the following morning. The event is being used to argue that robotaxi policy should treat cybersecurity as a core requirement, especially as generative AI can speed up attacks.
Flock’s automatic license plate reader cameras, which use AI to identify and track vehicles, have faced contract cancellations and shutdowns across the US after scrutiny over data collection and access. More than 120,000 of Flock’s ALPR cameras are installed nationwide. As a result, Los Angeles canceled or turned off use and Ring canceled its partnership with Flock, while the LAPD suspended its use for now.
Anthropic’s investors expect the AI startup to float in October at a valuation of $2 trillion or more. The planned autumn IPO target is at least $2 trillion. The potential listing would reshape how big AI-company IPOs could get, while putting pressure on public markets as they grow wary of the AI boom.
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Flock announced changes to how police officers can access its nationwide network of license plate readers after a surveillance backlash and reports of officers using the system to stalk and harass partners.
Anthropic will begin watermarking content that its Claude models process, not only content they generate, using machine-readable marks to meet EU AI Act requirements. The EU law covers AI model releases after August 2, with providers getting until December 2026 to update previously released models. Going forward, new Claude models will apply embedded, invisible watermarks for text and signed provenance metadata where supported, with detectability depending on a tool Anthropic plans to release later.
Twitch users reacted with outrage after Twitch said content could be used to train Amazon generative AI unless they explicitly opt out. Twitch explained the opt-out is disabled by default, and users must toggle off "training for Generative AI" in the Streamer Dashboard settings. The incident prompted a tutorial for disabling it and led some users to report the setting turning back on again, while the BBC sought comments from Twitch and Amazon.
Mozilla’s CTO Raffi Krikorian argues that AI should be built and governed like an open internet, pushing “open AI” as infrastructure rather than a shut-off product. The report he cites says the performance gap between top open-source models and proprietary systems is down to 3%. As a result, he says businesses and policymakers should shift toward open/open-weight models for more control (including self-hosting and data flow management) and invest toward making open definitions more transparent.
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