Prophecy in the News

A new bill in Moscow will classify AI models into categories, depending on their reliance on domestic or foreign solutions, as “sovereign,” “national” or “trusted”. Vladimir Putin signed a decree this week for the establishment of a “presidential commission on the development of AI technologies”. Putin urged Russians to rally behind domestic artificial intelligence and tech sovereignty, emphasizing that Russia could not allow itself to become dependent on foreign neural networks.

People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said China would take more steps to curb monopolistic behavior among internet platform companies and strengthen consumer privacy and data security. Yi added that the country would strengthen the regulation of the payments sector and require all financial services companies to be licensed. China's fintech industry has faced increased regulation, including forced cancellation of Ant Group's IPO and tightened restrictions on data collection.

In October 2025, the FSB ordered major Russian banks, including Sberbank, to expand law enforcement surveillance systems across their networks by 2027. This architecture makes adversarial use of any Russian AI system by the security services structurally unrefusable.

The Trump administration's national policy framework for artificial intelligence, released on March 20, 2026, urges Congress to use grants and tax incentives to fund “wider deployment of AI tools across American industry” and to allow industry and academia to use federal datasets to train AI. Congressional funding is supercharging huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI, which automates analysis of very large amounts of data.

Timothy Kosiba has been appointed as the NSA's Deputy Director, overseeing strategy execution, policy establishment, operations guidance, and senior civilian leadership management. Kosiba's appointment comes as national security priorities evolve, and he is expected to drive and guide critical foreign signals intelligence and cybersecurity missions.

Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, is criticized for its anti-democratic agenda and influence across global governments. Palantir's manifesto is interpreted as a technofascist argument, aiming to convert the private tech sector into a political class with civic authority and promoting the normalization of dangerous AI technology.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with Trump administration officials to address Washington's growing concerns about insufficient AI computing power, particularly as cybersecurity threats escalate. The restricted access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model has raised alarms, with officials worried that in a crisis, the government might lack the necessary tools to patch its software systems. Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) cannot be utilized in certain classified contexts, prompting the government to seek ways to expedite the security clearance for TPUs.

Congressional funding is supercharging government investments in AI-driven surveillance tech and data analytics, with the Department of Homeland Security receiving $165 billion in yearly funding and Immigration and Customs Enforcement getting about $86 billion. Documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a surveillance web that encompasses all Americans, with DHS expanding AI surveillance capabilities through private company contracts. The FBI is buying Americans' data from data brokers, including location histories, to track citizens.