AI Industry Shifts Focus to AI Management; Facial Recognition Under Scrutiny
The artificial intelligence landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI shifting from AI as a conversational partner to AI as a delegated workforce. Simultaneously, facial recognition technology used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is facing increased scrutiny, including a proposed bill to ban its use.
This week, Anthropic and OpenAI both released products centered on managing teams of AI agents that divide up work and run in parallel, according to Ars Technica. These releases signal a gradual shift across the industry, though the effectiveness of this supervisory model remains an open question. "Current AI agents still require heavy human intervention to catch errors," Ars Technica noted.
OpenAI also announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its coding model, available via command line, IDE extension, web interface, and a new macOS desktop app. According to the company, GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms previous versions in benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. While some headlines suggested Codex built itself, Ars Technica tempered expectations, stating that this was an overstatement. OpenAI described using it for managing deployments and debugging, similar to other enterprise software development firms.
Meanwhile, a few Senate Democrats introduced the "ICE Out of Our Faces Act," which would ban ICE and CBP from using facial recognition technology, Ars Technica reported. The bill would make it unlawful for immigration officers to acquire, possess, access, or use any biometric surveillance system or information derived from such a system. The proposed ban extends beyond facial recognition to cover other biometric surveillance technologies, such as voice recognition. All data collected from such systems in the past would have to be deleted.
Wired reported that the face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, used by United States immigration agents, is not designed to reliably identify people and was deployed without proper scrutiny. According to records reviewed by Wired, the Department of Homeland Security launched Mobile Fortify in the spring of 2025 to determine or verify the identities of individuals stopped or detained by DHS officers. DHS explicitly linked the rollout to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, which called for a crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
In an unrelated incident, Bing inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities, Ars Technica reported. Neocities, founded in 2013 to archive GeoCities websites, allows users to design free websites without standardized templates.
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