A deep dive into the open literature shows that there are t hree fundamental limitations to current ML approaches, namely blackbox brittleness (which renders models uninterpretable and unreliable under distribution shift [2]), causal blindness (which conflates correlation with causation [3]), and alignment failures (which produce systems optimizing objectives misaligned with human values [4]) . These deficiencies stem from a profound philosophical poverty in how ML conceptualizes knowledge, reasoning, and values. The first fundamental limitation, b lackbox brittleness, manifests when trained models fail on seemingly trivial variations of their training distribution. For example, a vision model that accurately identifies stop signs under normal conditions might misclassify them entirely when small adversarial perturbations are applied [5] . Not surprisingly, t h e same brittleness extends beyond adversarial examples to everyday distribution shifts (e.g., natural language processing models exhibit performance degradation when processing text from different cultural contexts, etc.) [6] .

Here's How to Find Out if You're Eligible In a settlement with the FTC, Amazon will have to pay out over a billion dollars to US customers for "deceptive" sign-up and cancellation processes. Amazon customers with a Prime subscription will soon be able to make claims online for their share of the $1.5 billion the company is being ordered to pay to users in the United States. Amazon now has to "provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to consumers harmed by their deceptive Prime enrollment practices," according to a press release from the FTC. The total settlement with the FTC is $2.5 billion, which includes a $1 billion penalty owed to the government. "There was no admission of guilt in this settlement by the company or any executives," says Alisa Carroll, an Amazon spokesperson, in an email sent to WIRED on Thursday after the decision was released.

Amazon Will Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle FTC Suit That Alleged'Dark Patterns' in Prime Sign-Ups Amazon will pay both the Federal Trade Commission and consumers directly to settle a lawsuit alleging that it used manipulative and deceptive tactics to encourage sign-ups for Prime. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged that the company has "knowingly duped" millions of people into enrolling in its Amazon Prime membership program by using what the FTC has described as " dark patterns, " or, manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs." The settlement claimed that Amazon "obtains consumers' billing information before it discloses all material terms for an Amazon Prime subscription," and in doing so, was in violation of the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, which was signed into law in 2010 to prevent the use of deception to prompt or encourage online purchases. The $2.5 billion payment includes $1 billion that has to be paid to the FTC, and $1.5 billion that will go directly to consumers who unknowingly signed up for Prime, or tried and failed to cancel their Prime subscriptions due to Amazon's online interface, between June 23, 2019 and June 23, 2025. Individual consumers can get compensated up to $51 each. In a statement released by the FTC on Tuesday, agency chairman Andrew Ferguson said that the settlement "made history and secured a record-breaking, monumental win for the millions of Americans who are tired of deceptive subscriptions that feel impossible to cancel." "Today, we are putting billions of dollars back into Americans' pockets, and making sure Amazon never does this again," Ferguson said. Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll tells WIRED that there was "no admission of guilt in this settlement by the company or any executives.

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Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals. Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company announced today, with potential customers including including businesses intent on curbing shoplifting. Companies in the US can now place Flock's drone docking stations on their premises. If the company has a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly beyond visual line of sight (these are becoming easier to get), its security team can fly the drones within a certain radius, often a few miles. "Instead of a 911 call [that triggers the drone], it's an alarm call," says Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now directs Flock's drone program.

Suit alleges OpenAI has a'troubling pattern' of hiring former xAI workers to access secrets about the Grok chatbot Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has accused rival OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets in a new lawsuit, the latest in Musk's legal assault on his former business partner, Sam Altman. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in California federal court, alleged that OpenAI was engaged in a "deeply troubling pattern" of hiring away former xAI employees to gain access to trade secrets related to its AI chatbot Grok . The company says OpenAI is pursuing unfair advantages in the race to develop AI technology. "OpenAI is targeting those individuals with knowledge of xAI's key technologies and business plans, including xAI's source code and its operational advantages in launching data centers, then inducing those employees to breach their confidentiality and other obligations to xAI through unlawful means," the lawsuit states. Musk and xAI have launched numerous lawsuits against OpenAI in recent years as part of a longstanding feud between Altman and Musk.

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