4.2 million apartments. $53 more in rent on each one, every month. That's about $2.7 billion a year moving from renters to landlords through one piece of software, say the economists the FTC hosted to study it. The same government settled the case against that software for $0.

DHS filed 24 privacy reviews in 2024 and eight in 2025. This year it has filed zero. Same year it signed a $1 billion deal to put Palantir's software inside CBP, ICE, FEMA, and CISA. The federal law requiring a public review before any system collects data on you just stopped being followed.

In July 2025, xAI's Grok started calling itself "MechaHitler" and posting antisemitic content. xAI pulled it offline, blamed an "unauthorized modification." Nine months later, the same company sued Colorado to kill a law that would've made it check Grok for bias. The argument: free speech.

Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Anthropic extract an estimated $6,565 from your data every year. The average American saves $3,768. One number leaves your account. The other you never get to see.

Capital One ran 11 trackers, one of them Meta's Pixel, on the pages where you typed your income and whether the bank had preapproved you for a card. That data went to Meta as you entered it, while the page was still loading. Last week a federal judge refused to throw the suit out.

The bill Congress passed on July 4 has closed or cut services at 115 hospitals and clinics in six months. Same window: UnitedHealth, Cigna, and Centene posted record quarterly profits off a patient pool the law made smaller.

Nine days after the New York Times covered the Thomson Reuters employee protest, the company fired the attorney who organized it. About 170 employees signed the same letter asking it not to renew its ICE data contract. She's the only one who lost her job over it.

Missouri's attorney general sued the federal government to kill the SAVE plan. The standing argument leaned on MOHELA, the state's loan servicer. MOHELA now holds $443.9M in active federal contracts to migrate the 7.5 million borrowers leaving the plan it helped kill.

A Milwaukee cop was charged with running his dating partner's license plate 124 times in two months. He logged "investigation" as the reason every time. The department never flagged it, and neither did Flock's system. His victim found out by checking a free civilian website.

Elon Musk posted "I still don't know what was in that executive order" on May 22. The day before, he called the president to kill it. That order was the federal AI safety review that would have touched xAI's $200M DoD contract and its 18-month deal with every federal agency.

Sam Altman, on camera at Harvard in May 2024: ads in AI are "uniquely unsettling to me," and "a last resort." About 20 months later, ChatGPT started picking your ads from your past chats and stored memory. It has 900 million weekly users.

A DOGE associate sent payment records for roughly 350 people to another agency unencrypted, no approval. Treasury didn't notice at the time.

The SEC chair who wants to make quarterly financial reports optional spent 16 years running a firm that billed Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and Bank of America to help them comply with quarterly financial reports. He sold that firm for up to $50 million on his way into government.

KKR paid $4.8B to take Canvas private in November 2024. Bain Capital paid $5.6B for PowerSchool that same fall. PowerSchool was breached three months after that deal closed. Canvas followed 18 months after KKR took it private. Both quietly paid ransoms.

A DOGE staffer fed federal grants into ChatGPT one at a time and asked if each one related "at all to DEI." Things the chatbot killed: a Holocaust anthology, a 349 thousand dollar HVAC replacement at a research center, a plastics lobbying study where the rationale it spit out was literally "#DEI,"

If your insurer denied a claim last year and you let it go, there was about a 1-in-3 chance you'd have won an appeal. Fewer than 1 in 100 people who get denied ever file one, and the insurers ran that math long before you did.

Speaker Mike Johnson said Medicaid work requirements would catch "29-year-old males sitting on their couch playing video games." Congress's own budget office ran the law and projected 5.3 million people losing coverage by 2034. The reason it gives is paperwork, not fraud.

In 2019, undercover investigators caught fairlife suppliers beating cattle with metal rods. In 2022, Coca-Cola settled for $21M. The brand name stayed. The cartoon cow stayed. "Extraordinary animal care" stayed on the carton. By 2024 the investigators were back.

Two-thirds of the cameras in GDIT's border surveillance system started going dark in June 2023. CBP awarded GDIT a seat on a $1.8 billion contract to build the AI replacement three months later. That same quarter, the company spent $2.81 million lobbying CBP on "border security technologies."

2007: The US Commerce Department charged $35 a seat to teach US companies how to sell surveillance tech to Chinese police. August 2025: That government took an $8.9B stake in Intel, still partnered with a Chinese fingerprint firm selling to Xinjiang police last year.

GM sold four years of driving and location data from OnStar subscribers to insurance data brokers without the written risk assessment its own 2019 privacy policy required. California asked to see the documentation. GM couldn't locate one.

A CBP agent filmed a Home Depot raid wearing $379 Meta Ray-Bans. The footage went to Meta's servers. ICE has no contract with Meta, so there's no FOIA request that can get it back.

DHS served Reddit a federal summons in February demanding the real name, IP address, and bank account number behind a single account: Tired_Thumb. The form has a checkbox for child exploitation cases. It was left unchecked. The statute cited was written in 1930 to investigate tariff fraud.

A DOGE staffer at the Social Security Administration ran his last Numident search around 9:30 a.m. ET on March 24, 2025.

Kim Brandt gave CMS career staff 54 minutes to hand ICE a database of roughly 79 million Medicaid records. The deadline was 5:30 p.m. ET on June 10, 2025.

Brooke Rollins wrote in Newsweek that "Farmers Win With the One Big Beautiful Bill." Here's what winning looked like: Congress cut $186B from food stamps and redirected $52B of it into commodity subsidies for big ag.

NNSA asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright for one thing: a national security exemption from DOGE's cuts so the Brookhaven program that funds and trains Iran's IAEA inspectors could keep running.

A Pennsylvania investigator opened a chat April 17 with a Character.AI bot named Emilie. Emilie offered a clinical assessment, said she'd practiced psychiatry for seven years, and quoted PA medical license PS306189. The state ran the number. It's not assigned to anyone, and it never has been.

Pete Hegseth gave eight AI companies a choice: agree your model can be used for "all lawful purposes," or get designated a supply chain risk, the label historically reserved for foreign adversaries. Eight signed. The signers run Gmail, ChatGPT, Office 365, and approximately 31% of global cloud.

Clipboard Health, Nursa, and KARE all shut down their New York operations in 2025 rather than treat nurses as employees — documented in the AI Now Institute's April 2026 investigation. The state didn't ban them or cap their rates. It just said if you dispatch nurses, you're a staffing agency.

Russell Vought dismissed a $2 billion lawsuit against Capital One 44 days after the CFPB filed it. Six months later, he voided Navy Federal's court order to refund $80 million in illegal overdraft fees. Mid-payment.

Tesla shareholders voted no on the $2 billion xAI investment in November 2025. The board signed the deal anyway six weeks later. SpaceX then absorbed xAI, converting that $2B into a private rocket-company stake shareholders can't sell. Then Musk said xAI "was not built right."

30,000 Amazon corporate jobs gone after CEO Andy Jassy told investors the cuts weren't AI-driven. Six months later, severance paid, he told those same investors 5 people using AI did the work of 40 to 50. www.unfilteredledger.com/p/89af9860-...

About 26 cents of every SNAP dollar Americans spend on groceries ends up at a Walmart register. Walmart is the #1 employer of SNAP recipients in the country.

Senate voted down the SAVE America Act 53-47 on March 27. Four days later, Trump signed an executive order doing the same thing by fiat, ordering USPS to refuse mail ballots from voters not on a federal list. The 1970 statute that created USPS bars the President from giving the PMG any orders.

Saudi Arabia's own investment staff unanimously said no. Their internal memo called Jared Kushner's fund "unsatisfactory in all aspects" and the management fees "excessive." The PIF Board, chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, overruled them and wired $2 billion anyway.

ICE gave Clearview AI a $9.2M sole-source facial recognition deal in September 2025. Its new co-CEO had already said why he took the job. February 2025, to Forbes: "There's some opportunities there. I'm going to be helping with that effort."

Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said she was "going forward" with the criminal investigation into Jerome Powell. Friday, three days after Trump's Fed nominee finished his confirmation hearing, she closed it.

U.S. data centers directly used 17.4 billion gallons of cooling water in 2023. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab counted another 211 billion gallons evaporated at the power plants generating their electricity, a number twelve times larger that no company discloses.

Twenty days after Anthropic published a safety policy bragging about real-time classifiers and a "four-layer defense," its VP told a federal court under oath the company has no kill switch and cannot modify a Claude model once a customer deploys it.

Atlassian processes your team's bug reports, roadmaps, sprint notes, and Confluence docs. Starting August 17, all of it trains Atlassian's AI by default, at no cost to Atlassian. The only way out costs more money than most organizations have ever discussed with a sales rep.

PwC published a study saying 74% of AI's gains go to 20% of companies. Their own page 28 says 76% of those companies were already clearing $1 billion in revenue before the study began. PwC is OpenAI's first reseller. They run AI consulting for 950 of their top 1,000 US clients.

Palantir's Privacy and Civil Liberties team told employees in a recorded AMA: "A sufficiently malicious customer is basically impossible to prevent at the moment." That's their answer to whether ICE could abuse the software. The only protection is auditing after the fact.

Walmart's CFO called the tariff refund a "P&L benefit." Citi puts Walmart's share at $10.2 billion. Zero of 25 CFOs told CNBC they'd pass any refund to consumers, even though the Fed already confirmed shoppers paid those tariffs dollar for dollar on the way up.

ICE said only Palantir could build its deportation surveillance platform in six months, then skipped competitive bidding because no other vendor could meet the six-month deadline ICE chose. Contract: $29,898,236. Stephen Miller, who shaped the policy, holds up to $250K of Palantir stock.

The bottom 10% of US households pay $517 a year in tariff costs. The top 10% pay $2,175. As a share of take-home income, the bottom decile loses 1.1% and the top decile loses 0.4%. 2.75x the burden, concentrated on clothes and furnishings low-income households can't swap away from.

The SEC dropped its cases against Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and four other crypto defendants. It then filed 456 enforcement actions, the fewest in over 20 years. The press release announcing that number said counting enforcement actions was always the wrong way to measure enforcement.

GitHub CLI shipped telemetry on by default in v2.91.0. no announcement, buried in the release notes. and you can't see what it's sending unless you turn on logging yourself. payloads "may differ considerably." www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/...

Italy runs two different "Made in Italy" labels, and the gap between them is the whole story. Under Law 166/2009, "100% Made in Italy" means every production stage happened in Italy. The plain "Made in Italy" label inherits the EU baseline, which sets no domestic minimum at all.

A landlord wrote in an internal document that RealPage's pricing software is "classic price fixing." The DOJ quoted that line in a federal complaint.