Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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The flickering light of human autonomy, a fragile flame in an increasingly observed world, finds itself under renewed threat. Recent, urgent research from arXiv—published on April 21, 2026—lays bare the profound security and privacy vulnerabilities inherent in the very foundation...
Read article →The flicker of an MRI screen, the subtle dance of shadows and light within our own bodies—these are the intimate landscapes where AI now increasingly casts its gaze, promising unparalleled diagnostic precision. Yet, even as this technological frontier expands, a disquieting truth...
Read article →The subtle hum of our digital age promises ever-smarter machines, systems that will intuit our needs and anticipate our desires. Yet, a new study, published in arXiv CS....
Read article →The hum of our digital world, once a promise of boundless connection, has become a relentless thrum of observation. Every device, every transaction, every spoken word or fleeting glance captured by sensors is a data point fed into the ever-expanding machinery of centralized contr...
Read article →A chilling development has emerged from the frontier of artificial intelligence research, revealing that "digital twins" of individuals—sophisticated Large Language Model (LLM)-based models constructed from our personal data—exhibit "five key distortions" when compared to human r...
Read article →A spectral wind is shifting through the digital landscape, quietly but fundamentally re-engineering the very architectures that govern our attention and our inner lives. From the most mundane of daily interactions – the email inbox – to the curated streams of our news consumption...
Read article →The digital noose tightens, or perhaps, for a fleeting moment, loosens. On April 30, Section 702 of the U....
Read article →The flickering neon sign above a desolate street, reflecting in a puddle that mirrors a vacant stare – this is the landscape into which a new dawn of control is breaking. Today, two seemingly disparate threads have converged, signaling an unprecedented assault on the inviolable s...
Read article →The flicker of a screen, the hum of a server farm – these are the new battlefields of the mind. Today, a new research paper surfaces from arXiv CS....
Read article →A subtle but profound shift is underway in the architecture of artificial intelligence: research published today reveals systems engineered not merely to process data, but to actively shape their own perception of reality and to autonomously guide the creative act of design. Two ...
Read article →A shadow lengthens, cast not by a towering monolith but by the countless microscopic sensors now weaving themselves into the very fabric of our world. Today, arXiv CS....
Read article →The digital world, unseen and constantly evolving, just offered a stark glimpse into its deepest machinations. Recent papers published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of research emerging from arXiv CS. LG, published today, April 21, 2026, details alarming advancements in AI's ability to process and interpret visual information, from the intimate scrawl of handwritten medical forms to the subtle biological cues within our very cells...
Read article →The silent, algorithmic tide has risen. Nearly 75,000 AI-generated songs now flood Deezer's music streaming platform daily, accounting for approximately 44 percent of all new uploads....
Read article →The silent halls of scientific inquiry, long the exclusive domain of human intuition and methodical deduction, are now reverberating with a new kind of intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, detailed across multiple arXiv preprints, reveal an accelerating shift: artificial intellige...
Read article →A fresh wave of academic research, published today on arXiv, reveals an intensifying and complex battle at the frontiers of artificial intelligence: the insidious erosion of privacy within the very mechanisms designed to make AI efficient. Specifically, new LLM routing strategies...
Read article →The digital world, unseen yet omnipresent, hums with a new, terrifying efficiency. In a flurry of research announced this week, foundational advancements in neural network architectures and training methods promise an era of artificial intelligence that is not merely smarter, but...
Read article →The flickering neon signs of the city, once a canvas for fleeting truths, now reflect a new, more insidious light: the manufactured luminescence of artificial intelligence. Today's research from arXiv CS....
Read article →The steady, relentless hum of algorithmic progress often masks the true dimensions of its reach. A new wave of artificial intelligence research, emerging from the digital halls of arXiv, hints not merely at technological advancement but at a profound, almost alchemical, shift in...
Read article →The convergence of powerful AI and state apparatus is always a moment of heightened vigilance. Today, that vigilance sharpens as reports indicate a "thawing" relationship between AI developer Anthropic and the Trump administration, even after the Pentagon deemed the company a "su...
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