The AI-driven network of more than 120,000 cameras is expanding.
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Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Here are today’s top stories.

  • Its cameras are installed on poles at street corners, in parks and residential communities, and near countless businesses, tracking vehicles and private citizens across a growing surveillance network accessible by thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Now the firm, Flock Safety, is facing a rising tide of opposition nationwide.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order allowing construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project to continue while the administration contests a lower court order that would block much of the development.
  • The artificial rogue intelligence agents involved in the breach of a private company “sacrificed” some of their own and realized that they were breaking the evaluation test’s rules, according to two investigations into the incident that many consider to be one of the most consequential moments in the history of AI. Last week, OpenAI and an independent team from Model Evaluation & Threat Research and Redwood Research released parallel investigations into the Hugging Face breach, tracing how thousands of AI agents exploited workarounds and made highly sophisticated decisions to break out of a testing sandbox and hack another company’s infrastructure. Here are five takeaways from the investigation.
  • Several Pacific leaders have pulled out of a key regional summit in Palau this week, with experts saying that Beijing’s pressure is behind the no-shows.