CBP is a ticker tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Democrats introduce the No TSA Data for ICE Act to bar TSA from sharing passenger PII with ICE/CBP and to prevent DHS from buying traveler data or using certain AI/biometric tools at airports.
The piece argues that 15 years and roughly $100 billion spent on federal cloud modernization have produced internal walls (Advana, RAVEN, DFARS data rights) that hinder cross-agency collaboration, and it advocates a procedure-sharing approach to replace proprietary content sharing with state/interface sharing.
DHS will expand AI use to streamline FOIA processing amid a large backlog, with procurement activity and a pilot platform (RelativityOne) in CBP, while eliciting public scrutiny over transparency and redaction risk.
Uber backs ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s new Atoms with $1.7B (Uber reportedly $100M of that), led by Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz on the board, to pursue industrial AI and autonomy via Pronto, signaling continued capital rotation into mobility robotics despite past Uber-levandowski tensions.
Stanford students walked out on Sundar Pichai’s commencement to protest Google’s government contracts (ICE/CBP, Project Nimbus) and broader tech-enabled harms, highlighting environmental justice and Palestinian rights, with media attention and quantified anchors like 100+ protesters and Nimbus' $1.2B contract alongside Google’s ~$4T scale.
Rivian sues the U.S. government to reclaim tariffs paid under Trump-era measures, seeking a full refund with interest after the tariffs were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, highlighting a broader refunds wave and related cash-flow/regulatory risk for EV makers.
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