{"id":221906,"date":"2026-04-24T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221906"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:47:59","slug":"the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221906","title":{"rendered":"The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology. Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question:\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/09\/1134050\/the-download-ai-surveillance-laws-white-house-cracks-down-defiant-labs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs.jpg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221906-the-download-murky-ai-surveillance-laws-and-the-white-house-cracks-down-on-defiant-labs-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}