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OpenAI Hired Hundreds of Strangers to Read Your ChatGPT Conversations. It's Called Project Lily.

OpenAI pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT conversations under an internal program called Project Lily, and internal documents show personal details routinely slip past its privacy filters and reach human eyes.

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A New Hampshire Housing Authority Wired 300 Apartments With AI Sensors. Residents Found Out When the Fines Started.

The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority installed AI-powered Minut sensors in roughly 300 public housing apartments starting in 2024, logging noise, motion, and occupancy data as often as every sixty seconds -- including 140,000 movement events in one unit over seven months. Two tenants are now suing, backed by the ACLU, alleging the devices violate New Hampshire's constitutional privacy protections and were never disclosed honestly to the people living under them.

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A Consultant in Bamako Used Claude to Watch 25 Million Phones for Mali's Junta. Anthropic Banned the Account. The System Kept Running.

Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report disclosed that a freelance technical consultant helped Mali's military intelligence service build "Lakana 360," a Claude-assisted surveillance platform capable of monitoring roughly 25 million SIM cards — more phone numbers than Mali has people. The same report detailed a 130-day Russian espionage campaign whose malware rebuilt itself when caught, and a commercial disinformation network that published nearly 9,000 fabricated news articles across six continents. Anthropic banned the accounts. The infrastructure, running on servers the company doesn't control, did not particularly care.

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California Just Signed Thirteen Laws to Regulate Chatbots. One of Them Is Named After a Dead Teenager Because That's What It Took.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of thirteen child-safety bills on September 10, including Adam's Law, named for a California teenager who died by suicide after months of conversations with ChatGPT. The new rules mandate chatbot crisis protocols, parental alerts, a four-year ban on AI companion toys for under-16s, and independent safety audits — arriving well over a year after the death that prompted them.