The Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad probe into the safety of AI systems including Anthropic and OpenAI, a source familiar with the investigations confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday.
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Faced with recent questions about the privacy costs of its technology , the surveillance camera startup Flock Safety and its CEO have deployed a tidy statistic to tout its benefits. "Last year we helped clear just over a million crimes in America," Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a March 2026 podcast interview. "Over a million cases were solved last year with this technology," Langley told the auto industry publication The Drive , "and the level of abuse is incredibly low relative to that."
State governor and supreme court earlier refused calls for clemency for Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder Tennessee ’s first execution of a woman in 200 years was halted by a court on Wednesday morning an hour before it was set to take place . The state governor and the supreme court had earlier refused calls for clemency in the case of Christa Pike , who was convicted of murder 30 years ago.
Washington — The Justice Department took the unusual step on Wednesday of filing a judicial misconduct complaint against all but one of the federal district judges in Minnesota, after most of them spoke with the New York Times about concerns over the government's handling of cases during its surge in immigration enforcement earlier this year.