The Best of The Intercept

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Search app that will "blacklist sensitive queries" could be launched in six to nine months, according to documents and people familiar with the plans.

Google’s plan for a censored search engine in China also blacklists terms like “Nobel Prize” and “human rights.”

Cropping tools like those in Google Docs allow viewers to see the full, original images.

Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Under the guise of counterterrorism, the government is accelerating pressure on social media companies to crack down on speech the feds deem disinformation.

Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message.

Documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal Palantir’s role in creating the U.S. government’s international spy machine.

Palantir previously claimed its software was strictly involved in criminal investigations as opposed to deportations. This was false.

A slate of reformers unleashed the fury of the Florida GOP and its business elite, and left two men facing garbage felony charges.

Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.

The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform.

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

«track the movements of billions of people via their phones with a constant stream of data purchased directly from Twitter.»

Elon Musk appears to have out-sourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists.

Locked in a cycle of Slack callouts and healing retreats, left-wing groups — from reproductive rights to climate to racial and economic justice — have brought themselves to a grinding halt.

From encouraging me to read and write, to nudging me to think for myself, their pernicious influence burdens me to this day.

During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.