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AI Used Against Associated Press And ProPublica Journalists

April 9, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , , ,
New York—AI has hit the AP: At least 120 U.S. newspeople, some of them longtime veterans of the Associated Press, the worldwide wire service, have received layoff notices as a result, with buyout offers—but with little notice to and no negotiations with their union. AI—artificial intelligence—can be used for good or ill, but corporate executives are using it to guillotine people’s jobs, thus increasing company profits. The cost, however, as critics on social media pointed out, is in reduced coverage at a time when news consumers need unbiased information more than ever before.

US To Embed Palantir AI Across Entire Military: Report

March 22, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The Pentagon has designated Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system as an official program of record, in a move that will lock in the weapons-targeting technology long term across ‌the US military, Reuters reported on 21 March. The move was announced in a letter from Deputy Secretary of War Steve ​Feinberg issued to senior Pentagon leaders and US military commanders on 9 March. Feinberg wrote that embedding Palantir's Maven Smart System would provide the military "with the latest tools necessary to detect, deter, and dominate our adversaries in all domains."

‘A.I. Is African Intelligence’: Workers Who Train A.I. Fight Back

March 19, 2026 Jason Koebler, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas. “It required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man.

Labor’s Answer To Artificial Intelligence? Give Us Our Time Back

March 19, 2026 Vishal Reddy, Labor Notes. , , ,
When it comes to A.I., there’s a stark gap in ambition between business and labor. If A.I. ushers in a technological boom, corporations intend to use it to wage total war on labor. They will use efficiency gains to cut human jobs, surveil workers, and degrade work. Even if A.I. falls short of its lofty (perhaps inflated) valuations, the working class may still suffer severe consequences, since our economy and retirement increasingly depend on A.I. investments. Workers sense that corporations have laid a trap for them. A recent Pew survey indicated most workers feel worried about A.I. in their workplaces, with anxiety highest among low-wage workers.

New York City Teachers, Community Demand AI Moratorium In Schools

March 18, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , ,
New York, NY – On March 14, outside the Martin Luther King Educational Campus in Lincoln Square, unionized teachers, parents, students and community members, led by the Movement of Rank and File Educators/United Federation of Teachers Caucus (MORE Caucus) in collaboration with the organization Climate Families, held a protest against the NYC Department of Education’s push for AI in public school curriculum. Inside, Kamar Samuels, the new chancellor of NYC Public Schools who is part of the push for more AI, was holding a community town hall meeting with parents, students and teachers.

Residents Victorious In Fight To Stop Pekin, Illinois Data Center

March 15, 2026 Nicholis Hall, People's World. , ,
Pekin, IL — Residents celebrated a victory Tuesday night as Mayor Mary Burress announced that Pekin City Council does not plan to move forward with approval for a proposed AI data center. Burress was greeted with applause by those in attendance as she read off her statement indicating the council was nixing the facility. “When a project creates this level of uncertainty and division, it is important for us to step back to consider whether moving forward is truly the right path,” Buress told the crowd. Zoey Carter, who is running for the Illinois State House in District 93, expressed gratitude for the decision, highlighting the various reasons the community opposed the data center.

Data Centers Are Poised To Engulf A Pennsylvania Town

March 15, 2026 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. , , ,
On a chilly Monday just before Thanksgiving, residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania hurried from work in the fading autumn light to snag seats in the old brick Borough Building for a 5 p.m. council meeting. After the roughly 50 seats quickly filled, people continued to pack the room, standing along the walls or wedging themselves into the remaining floor space. Police officers manned the doors. Outside, latecomers huddled around a laptop in the 40-degree cold to watch proceedings on a hastily rigged livestream. On the sidewalk, someone waved a handmade sign saying “Boycott AI.”

Four Union Strategies To Fight Artificial Intelligence

March 6, 2026 Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
A corporate artificial intelligence frenzy is sowing fear for workers on a massive scale. Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.” Wall Street and Big Tech are running a huge hype machine to back up their massive, risky investment in A.I., pledging it will drive a “productivity surge,” meaning fewer workers and more profits. But workers can take heart that, so far, it’s mostly hot air. To date, A.I. is making few profits. It can be helpful at a few tasks—rough drafts of computer code, summaries of reams of data—but is rarely the equal of human talent otherwise.

Pentagon Sets Deadline For Anthropic To Lift AI Restrictions

February 25, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The US Department of War has issued a deadline to AI company Anthropic to allow broader military use of its Claude models or face possible action under the Defense Production Act.  The company could face losing its Pentagon contract, and has been threatened with a government blacklist, US media reports said. The Pentagon has a $200-million contract with Anthropic. The company has placed guardrails on the Claude AI, preventing its use for fully autonomous weaponry and mass domestic surveillance, triggering a standoff with US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. 

New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center

February 20, 2026 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. , , ,
The New Brunswick, New Jersey City Council voted Wednesday to cancel plans to construct an artificial intelligence data center and instead build a new public park where the 27,000-square foot facility would have gone. Artificial intelligence data centers—which house the servers and other infrastructure needed to train and power AI models—have major environmental and climate impacts, as they consume massive amounts of electricity and water, as well as rare earth metals and other resources. According to New Brunswick Patch, hundreds of people packed into Wednesday evening’s city hall meeting to voice concerns that the proposed data center would send their electricity and water bills skyrocketing, and that the facility would harm the environment.

Big Tech Accused Of AI ‘Greenwashing’

February 17, 2026 Joey Grostern, DeSmog. , , , ,
The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and accountability groups. The report found that only 26 percent of the climate claims made by big tech companies cited published academic research, with 36 percent citing no evidence whatsoever. The analysis is the first of its kind to assess climate claims from major AI developers like Google and Microsoft, as well as from independent institutions like the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Apple Bought A Sinister ‘Pre-Speech’ Tech Company Implicated In Genocide

February 16, 2026 Nate Bear, Scheer Post. , , , , , ,
Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza. And Apple has paid this money, the second-biggest deal in its history, for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website is a single page containing 15 words. The company, Q.ai, is developing sensors which map the imperceptible movements of a human face to determine the words someone is thinking before they’re spoken. They call it silent speech. Or pre-speech.

Grassroots Organizers Offer Blueprint For Beating Back Data Centers

February 15, 2026 Derek Seidman, Truthout. , , ,
Data centers are big business. Around 3,000 new data centers — huge buildings that house the computing power that props up the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) — are currently being built or planned across the U.S. Some speculate that global spending on data centers could hit $3 trillion by 2029. Corporate interests — from energy firms and construction companies, to real estate businesses and utilities — are looking to cash in. But private equity — that powerful and opaque slice of Wall Street, run by mega-billionaire founders, focused on private investment and outsized profits — is an especially outsized force driving the data center boom, pouring billions into construction deals while also positioning itself to profit from supplying AI’s insatiable energy demands.

Red Lines And Artificial Intelligence Warfare

February 5, 2026 Matilda Byrne, Consortium News. , , ,
Australia appears to be moving head first into unregulated AI warfare and this shocking possibility almost never makes the mainstream media. In the last decade, there’s been a massive acceleration in the militarisation of artificial intelligence (AI). Addressing the United Nations Security Council in late September, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong stated that, “decisions of life and death must never be delegated to machines, and together we must set the rules and establish the norms.”  The advancement of AI in weapons is occurring across all areas: autonomous-piloted aircraft, drones, submarines, robot tanks and guns.

US/ Israeli Attack On Iran Fails

January 21, 2026 Sara Flounders, Workers World. , , , ,
Washington’s latest criminal attack, following decades of nonstop efforts to overturn the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country of 92 million people, has failed.  Since the powerful 1979 Iranian Revolution overturned the corrupt Pahlavi monarchy, kept in place by U.S. and British imperialism, Washington has used invasions, bombings, assassinations and sabotage to try to reestablish its domination of this resource rich country. The Revolution — and with it the utilization of Iran’s own resources — transformed Iran, modernizing industry and providing health care, electrification, sanitation and free universal education.
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