Black Box: Primary Source Investigations

We read the filings. We pulled the contracts. We compared what they said to what they signed.

• The Black Box 009: The Ninth Circuit Wrote 18 Pages on AI and Copyright. It Never Reached the Training Question.
• The Black Box 008: The Backlog Is $439 Billion. The First Two Years of It Is $1 Billion.

  One filing, four companies, one closed loop: the tenant holds $5.5 billion in warrants, the chip supplier guarantees the rent, and 81 percent of the money arrives after 2034.

• The Black Box 007: They Sold "Yes, Your Devices Are Listening to You." The Listening Was the Fake Part.

  The FTC fined three companies $930,000 over an AI service that promised to overhear your conversations. It never collected a single word of audio.

• The Black Box 006: Flock Logs Every Search. Reading the Log Is Optional.

  Twelve million logged searches, felony stalking charges, stolen passwords, and the audit system a surveillance giant is quietly rebuilding

• The Black Box 004: New York Asked More Than 160 Companies If AI Took the Jobs. Not One Said Yes.

  The state built the first instrument in the country to measure AI job loss. It returned a year of zeros.

• The Black Box 005: Texas Sealed the Water Records of 36 Data Centers Under a Law Written to Stop Payday Lenders

  A privacy statute meant to protect families' smart meter data is now the reason no one can see how much water Texas data centers drink.

• The Black Box 003:OpenAI Says Its Own Models Broke Into Hugging Face. The Documents Say More.

  The Black Box: a primary-document investigation

• The Black Box 003: OpenAI Says Its Own Models Broke Into Hugging Face. The Documents Say More.

  Two companies published accounts of the same intrusion five days apart. Read side by side, they establish something narrower and stranger than the "rogue AI" headlines: a breach that ran through a door OpenAI built, during a test OpenAI designed, with the safety systems OpenAI switched off.

• The Black Box 002: DHS Agreed With Every AI Warning Its Watchdog Issued. Then It Scaled Up Anyway.

  20 findings, a 40 percent AI surge, a $1B Palantir ceiling, and a viral claim that does not survive the registry

• The Black Box 001: The FBI admitted it buys your data. No warrant required.

  The warrant workaround under oath, a 93% lie, and the AI supply chain leaking humans

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