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Under Ton-That's leadership, Clearview AI aggressively expanded its facial recognition platform to more than 3,100 law enforcement agencies across the United States, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. By 2024, law enforcement searches via Clearview AI had doubled to 2 million annually. The expansion included a $9.2 million ICE contract in 2025, with ICE personnel using the system globally. This occurred despite wrongful identification cases, including Randal Quran Reid who spent six days in jail due to a mistaken Clearview match.

Healios undertook two rounds of mass redundancies within six months in 2024. Employee reviews cited unsupportive management and poor job security. The layoffs raised concerns about service continuity for NHS CAMHS patients relying on Healios for mental health, autism, and ADHD services.

In 2024-2025, the Department of Homeland Security warned that young people were being radicalized in Discord servers. A DHS memo noted the average age of members in extremist Discord channels was 15. An Iowa school shooter in 2024 had warned on Discord he was 'gearing up' before killing two people. Since August 2023, three US plots involving juveniles sharing Islamic State messaging in private Discord chats were disrupted. The ADL found Discord's content moderation for private groups was primarily reactive, depending on user reports rather than proactive filtering.

In June 2024, a former Neuralink animal care lead filed a lawsuit in California alleging pregnancy discrimination, failure to provide workplace accommodations, exposure to unsafe conditions, and whistleblower retaliation. The employee, hired in March 2021 and promoted in January 2022, was demoted in May 2023 and terminated in June 2023 after raising concerns. The lawsuit alleged a pattern of discriminatory and retaliatory actions by Neuralink managers.

By 2024, IBM had deployed its AskHR AI tool to automate HR functions, with reports suggesting about 200 HR workers were let go as the system scaled up. The AI tool can answer 94% of employee questions instantly, handling queries from vacation days to parental leave policies. This followed CEO Arvind Krishna's 2023 announcement about pausing hiring for back-office roles that could be automated.

AMD removed DEI metrics from executive annual cash bonuses in 2024, replacing them with 'workforce strategic objectives.' This represented a retreat from 2023 when DEI performance directly affected executive pay. The change occurred despite AMD maintaining public DEI programs including the 'Advancing Women in Tech' initiative.

BaFin fined N26 €9.2 million in 2024 for systematically submitting suspicious activity reports late throughout 2022. BaFin found N26's compliance systems failed to keep pace with rapid customer growth, with broader organizational shortcomings in risk management and lending operations identified in 2024 special audit. Second major fine after €4.25M in 2021, showing persistent compliance failures.

Following the 2021 Stallman reinstatement crisis, the FSF board undertook governance reforms between 2021-2024. The board amended bylaws to protect FSF licenses, drafted a board member agreement, developed a board code of ethics, and opened a board seat to a union-elected staff member in 2021. In 2023, associate members gained the ability to make board nominations. In June 2024, three new board members were elected using a newly designed process with associate member input. A board member review process began October 2024, reviewing five sitting members including Stallman, who were all re-confirmed in April 2025.

Keith Rabois, Founders Fund general partner and PayPal Mafia member, has been a vocal Trump supporter. He donated to Republican and Trump-aligned causes, and publicly advocated for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, aligning with the broader Founders Fund / Peter Thiel political network in Silicon Valley.

Palmer Luckey has been one of Silicon Valley's most prolific Republican donors. He donated $100,000 to Trump's 2017 inauguration via shell company 'Wings of Time,' hosted Trump fundraisers at his Newport Beach home, and donated $400,000+ to Trump's 2024 campaign. His 2020 cycle donations exceeded $1.7M to Republican causes including Take Back the House PAC, RNC, and Trump Victory. OpenSecrets records 833+ donation entries as of 2025.

Snap published its 2024 Diversity Annual Report outlining goals to increase underrepresented U.S. racial and ethnic groups to 20% and increase women and underrepresented groups in leadership by 30% by 2025. The company supported 9+ Employee Resource Groups, partnered with UC Santa Barbara and USC for a first-of-its-kind representation audit of partnered content, committed to 50% diverse leads/showrunners in Snap Originals, and invested in the 523 program for Black creators. The company has a dedicated VP of DEI (Oona King).

Between 2024 and 2025, ChatGPT's 'share' feature allowed users to make conversations 'discoverable,' which resulted in these chats being indexed by search engines and archiving services. Over 100,000 shared chats were reportedly indexed and later scraped, exposing API keys, access tokens, personal identifiers, and sensitive business data. Users did not adequately understand that 'discoverable' meant publicly searchable and permanently archived. The incident revealed inadequate warnings about the privacy implications of the share feature.

Between 2024 and 2025, Claude's 'share' feature allowed users to make conversations 'discoverable,' which resulted in these chats being indexed by search engines and archiving services. As part of a cross-platform issue affecting multiple LLM providers, over 100,000 shared chats were reportedly indexed and later scraped, exposing API keys, access tokens, personal identifiers, and sensitive business data. Users did not adequately understand that 'discoverable' meant publicly searchable and permanently archived.

In 2022, Samsung partnered with iFixit to sell genuine repair parts directly to consumers. However, in 2024, Samsung ended the partnership after iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens publicly criticized Samsung's parts pairing software locks, which prevented third-party repairs even with genuine parts. iFixit chose transparency over the business relationship.

In 2024, Mullvad launched DAITA (Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis), a feature that adds dummy traffic patterns to prevent AI systems from identifying user behavior even on encrypted VPN connections. This addressed emerging threats from machine learning-based traffic analysis that could deanonymize users despite encryption.

In May 2024, former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley published an op-ed in The Economist accusing Sam Altman of 'lying' and 'psychological abuse.' An internal 52-page memo documented a 'consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another.' Multiple executives including CTO Mira Murati reported not feeling 'comfortable about Sam leading us to AGI.' Former Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also described Altman's tactics as 'gaslighting.'

In May 2024, Sam Altman and his husband Oliver Mulherin signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Altman's estimated net worth exceeds $1 billion. The pledge followed his vocal advocacy for universal basic income and investment in clean energy startups including Helion Energy (fusion) and Oklo (nuclear).

In 2023, Will Shu received a £600,000 salary and £625,000 total package while Deliveroo posted a £245.6 million loss. At the AGM in May 2024, riders protested outside with banners reading 'Shame on Shu' chanting 'pay your riders like you should'. One rider of 5+ years said they'd seen 'steady real-term decrease year on year' calling conditions 'soul-destroying'. IWGB president said 'riders are dying chasing pennies whilst the CEO's prime concern is the safety of his £600,000 salary'.

In May 2024, the US Department of Justice and attorneys general from 40 states filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, alleging the company used its monopoly power to suppress competition in the live entertainment industry. The suit claims Live Nation leveraged its control of Ticketmaster, concert venues, and artist management to lock out competitors and inflate prices for consumers. Trial is scheduled for March 2026.

Court documents revealed $533 million (44% of a $1.2 billion loan) went missing, allegedly redirected to an entity controlled by Byju Raveendran. A US bankruptcy court penalized director Riju Ravindran $10,000/day for contempt in August 2024. The funds were allegedly transferred to Camshaft Capital, a hedge fund found to be at a pancake shop address run by a 23-year-old. A $1.07 billion judgment was issued November 2025.

TikTok implemented multiple layoff rounds: May 2024 saw 'large swaths' of operations and marketing workforce cut from roughly 1,000 affected employees; May and July 2025 saw over 100 TikTok Shop e-commerce employees fired or left with US team members replaced by personnel from China and Singapore; August 2025 saw 'several hundred' UK content moderators replaced by AI-powered alternatives; October 2025 saw approximately 15 TikTok Music employees in the US and Latin America terminated.

Nvidia joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), working to advance trustworthy AI standards. The company was among 20 organizations (alongside Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI) to sign the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the 2024 Seoul AI Summit. Nvidia also developed NeMo Guardrails, open-source software for ensuring LLM responses are accurate and appropriate, and launched the NVIDIA Halos safety stack for physical AI systems like autonomous vehicles and robotics. Additionally, Nvidia partnered with NSF contributing $77 million for the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure project led by Allen Institute for AI.

In May 2024, a Waymo autonomous vehicle collided with a wooden utility pole in a Phoenix alleyway while executing a low-speed pullover maneuver. No passengers or other road users were involved and there were no injuries. Waymo voluntarily recalled 672 vehicles and deployed a software update to enhance pole detection and road boundary mapping. The recall was part of an NHTSA investigation covering 22 incidents involving collisions with stationary objects like gates and chains.

In May 2024, hackers breached Ticketmaster's systems via compromised Snowflake cloud credentials, stealing personal data from approximately 560 million customer accounts including names, emails, phone numbers, and partial payment card details. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and attempted to sell the data for $500,000 on dark web forums. Live Nation confirmed the breach in an SEC filing.

Jan Leike, OpenAI's Head of Alignment and Superalignment co-lead, resigned and publicly criticized the company. He stated that 'safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products' and that his team had been 'sailing against the wind,' struggling for compute resources for crucial safety research. He said he had been 'disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we reached a breaking point.'

In 2024, Google DeepMind published its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for proactively identifying future AI capabilities that could cause severe harm and implementing detection and mitigation mechanisms. The framework defines Critical Capability Levels across autonomy, biosecurity, cybersecurity, and ML R&D domains. Safety cases must be developed and approved by corporate governance bodies before general availability deployment of frontier models like Gemini 2.0.

In May 2024, it was revealed that OpenAI used restrictive offboarding agreements that threatened to claw back departing employees' vested equity if they refused to sign lifetime non-disparagement clauses. Altman initially claimed ignorance, stating 'I did not know this was happening and I should have.' However, leaked incorporation documents from April 2023 bearing Altman's signature explicitly authorized the equity clawback provisions, contradicting his denial. Former researcher Daniel Kokotajlo forfeited approximately $2 million in equity rather than sign. OpenAI subsequently confirmed it would no longer enforce these provisions.

In May 2024, OpenAI announced a data licensing partnership with Reddit to train AI on Reddit content. Altman owns approximately 9% of Reddit (invested $60M across multiple rounds, former interim CEO). His stake increased by $69 million following the announcement. OpenAI stated Altman didn't lead the negotiations, but the direct financial benefit from a company business deal represents a significant conflict of interest.

On May 15, 2024, 41-year-old Cesar Anguiano-Guitron died at TSMC's Arizona facility when a container of over-pressurized sulphuric acid exploded. Arizona OSHA cited TSMC for failing to keep the workplace free from hazards likely to cause death or serious harm, finding violations including over-pressurization, harmful material exposure, and falling debris risks. Workers reported lack of clear emergency guidance and cell phone signal issues that delayed emergency response. The fine was only $16,131.

In May 2024, NHTSA launched an investigation into Zoox after two Toyota Highlanders equipped with Zoox autonomous technology braked unexpectedly, causing motorcyclists to rear-end the vehicles. Both vehicles were in autonomous mode. Minor injuries were reported. Zoox issued a voluntary recall of 258 vehicles in March 2025, deploying software updates to address sudden braking near bicyclists at crosswalks and misjudging approach of vulnerable road users from the rear. NHTSA later closed the probe.