Bullies, and the AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly update for the week ending June 23rd., 2026

Episode 297 The U.S. government gave one of America's most important AI companies 90 minutes to shut off its best models - and the reason they gave keeps changing.The real story behind the Anthropic ban has nothing to do with a jailbreak - and everything to do with autonomous weapons and who gets to say no to the Pentagon.The FBI just seized thirteen websites posing as consulting firms - and the fake recruiters behind them may have already messaged someone you know.Hackers spent two months inside Novo Nordisk's systems and walked out with something new: the company's AI models themselves.Your next smartphone is going to cost significantly more - not because of tariffs, but because AI data centers ate all the memory chips.Sixty percent of what TikTok serves to brand new accounts is AI-generated slop - and it's worse when the account belongs to a child.The war in Ukraine has become the world's first live demonstration of AI-assisted combat, and the people planning the next conflict are paying very close attention.Meta is quietly lobbying Congress right now to make it legally impossible for families to sue the company when its algorithms harm their children - and almost nobody is talking about it.This has been a week where the people with the most power moved fastest and quietest - in government backrooms, in corporate lobbying offices, on battlefield drone feeds, and in the recommendation engines shaping what our kids see.Some of these stories are alarming.Some are clarifying.All of them deserve your attention.Let's get into it.Find the full transcript to this podcast here.