Tomorrow in Camden, the Metropolitan Police will turn live facial recognition cameras on people walking to a political rally — the first time the technology has been authorized at a UK protest. A parallel Nakba Day march on the same day won't face the same surveillance. Two days earlier, the Met published its Croydon pilot results: 470,000 faces scanned, 173 arrests, 99.96% with no criminal connection, and a quiet upgrade from police vans to permanent lamppost cameras. Parliament has never voted on any of it.From there we walk through a dense morning on arXiv: a sycophantic-consensus paper from Varad Vishwarupe, Nigel Shadbolt and Marina Jirotka proposing a Pluralistic Repair Score; Hiroki Fukui's preregistered experiment showing invisible orchestrators distort multi-agent internal states while outputs stay clean; a unified adaptive attack from Ben-Gurion that breaks 15 malicious-finetuning defenses with one move; a Washington University measurement study of Google AI Overviews across 55,393 queries; Scale AI's ROK-FORTRESS transcreation matrix for Korean safety; and a tour of medical and physical-world deployment artifacts — SepsisAgent for ICU sepsis, MindGap for on-device PTSD therapy, a rural diabetic-retinopathy edge-cloud cascade, the LongAct chores benchmark, and a deterministic agentic workflow for Harmonized System tariff classification.Sources are linked in the show notes.
