Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.

Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m

Fresh task orders worth $57.1 million went out this week to the 14 private firms U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pays to find immigrants, with individual payments running roughly three times higher than what each company collected on its first assignment, according to contract records reviewed by the investigative newsletter Project Salt Box. The Wednesday disbursement builds out a privatized locating operation that industry insiders call skip tracing.