The race to dominate the AI-powered defense drone market is intensifying.

NVIDIA chips continue reaching Russia despite sanctions, highlighting the ease with which restrictions on tech can be bypassed. The chips are finding their way into Russian drones that use AI, enhanced navigation systems, and real-time acquisition logic. These are drones that “no longer follow orders [but] follow intent.” 

Many nuclear war experts take it as an inevitability that governments will mix AI and nuclear weapons. This creates the risk that system vulnerabilities could be exploited by an adversary or that rogue AI could start a nuclear war.

A data broker owned by major US airlines is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the US government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, and ICE.

Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, sounded the alarm to the cybersecurity community to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism and what he sees as the “fusion of tech and fascism.” Deibert views the failure to protect civil society from spyware as a market failure that is likely to get more acute as institutions are weakened and attacks on civil society increase. He is concerned that Meta, Google, and Apple will take a step back from fighting against government spyware by gutting their threat intelligence teams.