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A Kansas City security researcher has developed an AI-generated camouflage pattern designed to fool surveillance cameras, including the widely deployed Flock system. After running thirty-one million tests, the model learned how to paint patterns that confuse license plate and facial recognition algorithms, raising serious questions about the future of public surveillance and the right to move anonymously through a city.
Turning to Washington, the White House is preparing to expand its artificial intelligence policy framework, with sources telling Wired that open-source AI models may soon be brought under the umbrella of federal guidelines. The move signals a shift in an administration that has largely tried to keep government hands off the technology, and it suggests the pace of AI development is finally outrunning that hands-off instinct.
And on the hardware front, Qualcomm is sharing new details about its Snapdragon C chip, aimed at laptops priced around three hundred dollars. The company claims sixty-seven percent faster performance on battery power compared to Intel's N two fifty, though notably, it has stayed quiet about how the chip performs when plugged in, which is exactly the number buyers should probably be asking about.
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