You're Unbelievable. The A.I., Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending June 30th 2026
Episode 298. In this week's update: Meta contractors spent months posing as suicidal, drug-curious teenagers to test rival chatbots - and the platforms being probed had no idea it was happening. A Chinese AI lab just matched Anthropic's top cybersecurity model on its own turf - and the question isn't whether export controls work, it's whether they ever could. The New York Times says Microsoft didn't just host OpenAI's training runs - it built a 285,000-core machine specifically engineered to feed on its journalism, and the lawsuit's whole strategy just shifted because of it. A shell trick older than most AI startups just walked straight past ten out of eleven coding agent guardrails - and the fix isn't as simple as updating a blocklist. Nearly two out of three AI chatbot apps tested on iPhone are leaking the keys to someone else's wallet - and you'd never know it just by using them. A federal gun-enforcement agency ran more than 300 warrantless...
