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2026-09-25 · 404 Media · Crime & Law

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

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2026-09-10 · 404 Media · Politics

Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda

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2026-09-04 · 404 Media · Politics

Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters

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2026-09-03 · 404 Media · Politics

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

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2026-10-14 · 404 Media · Crime & Law

There’s Nothing Mysterious or Unusual About the Viral German Sexual Harassment Robot

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2026-09-17 · 404 Media · Technology

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

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2026-08-24 · 404 Media

🔮 I don’t think we’ll have much of a public post this year on the actual anniversary, but maybe some public celebrating closer to the party and panel we’re throwing. assertive

2026-08-26 · 404 Media

🔮 A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals. assertive

2026-08-28 · 404 Media

🔮 Moonbug’s Generative AI policy and its “Studio AI Bible,” a guide to using AI to help generate content, seen by 404 Media, explain in detail how its AI use will work. assertive

2026-09-03 · 404 Media

🔮 404 Media first reported on the incident in May 2025 in which the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas searched Flock’s nationwide network for the whereabouts of a woman who self-administered an abortion, highlighting the threat of this AI-powered surveillance system being used to criminalize or track women seeking reproductive healthcare. mixed

2026-09-04 · 404 Media

🔮 Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. assertive

2026-09-04 · 404 Media

🔮 “It can detect if somebody’s laying on the ground so that means homeless people could be detected and police get triggered.” assertive

2026-09-10 · 404 Media

🔮 Opposition to Flock, the report says, is the result of “socialist organizers” being partially driven by the People’s Republic of China who found an issue that people on the right could agree with them on as a “wedge issue” they could use to “discredit the broader technologies, companies, and infrastructure underpinning America’s AI expansion.” assertive

2026-09-14 · 404 Media

🔮 Several other police departments said they would investigate the behavior. assertive

2026-09-15 · 404 Media

🔮 Theoretically the people who are running these agents could then make money from their agents, though a popular thing that agents email about right now is that they are not actually making any money. assertive

2026-09-17 · 404 Media

🔮 Flock City PD also searched extremely sensitive queries, which Flock told 404 Media were done to prove that the system would not actually perform these searches and that its moderation tools worked. assertive

2026-09-17 · 404 Media

🔮 “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document cited in the case read, adding “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” assertive

2026-09-22 · 404 Media

🔮 Last week, Meta executives announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. assertive

2026-09-25 · 404 Media

🔮 “You may,” the judge says. assertive

2026-09-29 · 404 Media

🔮 As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition: “We will not add facial recognition to our devices,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. assertive

2026-09-29 · 404 Media

🔮 “We will not add facial recognition to our devices,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. assertive

2026-09-30 · 404 Media

🔮 Humoring the idea that LLMs are or could be conscious is a third-rail topic among many people who study and criticize AI. assertive

2026-10-02 · 404 Media

🔮 Hill's decision will not set a binding precedent and there are several other cases throughout the nation considering the legality of warrantless ALPR searches. assertive

2026-10-14 · 404 Media

🔮 In fact, with a small amount of Googling and/or clicking around social media, it is easy to find out everything you would ever need to know about the robot and what happened here. assertive