Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-…
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/
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To the US?!
LOL!
ICE's gonna take him soon enough.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/03/russian-minister-dodges-putins-security-service-flees-us-sacking-28218311/
Pam Bondi is the second Cabinet member to be fired from the Trump administration within a month,
after Kristi Noem was removed from her position as Secretary of Homeland Security on March 5.
“He is very angry,” an administration official told Politico. Adding, “and he’s going to be moving people
White House insiders told Politico that the president is frustrated with his secretaries for commerce and labor,
-- Howard Lutnick and Lori Chavez-DeRemer,
-- and is con…
Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/02/alcatraz-r…
IBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/05/ibm-security-executive-emerges-possible-contender-lead-cisa/413291/
Mexico names new foreign secretary
Mexico’s president on Wednesday designated
Roberto Velasco,
the foreign ministry’s subsecretary for North America and a leading expert in bilateral relations with the U.S.,
as the country’s new foreign secretary during a critical time for Mexico-U.S. relations.
The previous minister, Juan Ramón de la Fuente,
a 74-year-old psychiatrist who has been a key member of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration, re…
In reversal, Johnson embraces Senate’s Homeland Security bill
Less than a week after he and other House Republican lawmakers rejected a Senate plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security
— but not its immigration enforcement operations
— Speaker Mike Johnson has made a complete about-face.
Johnson’s embrace of a two-track Senate bill marks a sharp reversal, after he had derided it as a “joke,”
and said he was “quite convinced that it can’t be that every S…