“Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”
The secret to ensuring that your company doesn’t lose customers? Constant, AI agent-powered corporate surveillance.
That’s according to Josh Earle and Leo Paz, a pair of founders behind a vibe-coded Silicon Valley startup called Outlit. The venture argues that “AI customer surveillance” is the future of business-to-business sales. (“Our thesis,” as Earle put it in a disarmingly straightforward pitch email, is that “every company will soon assign an AI agent to every customer to watch their every move.”)
“The whole surveillance component came up because that’s the way we feel companies can serve their customers,” Earle told Futurism in an interview. “It’s really the only way we see this is going to play out.”
Outlit’s goal is to amass as much real-time information about a company’s clients as possible. According to Earle, agents trawl internal records like call logs and sales data as well as external information like social media posts and the websites of people’s employers; they then compile that data into detailed customer profiles, often complete with “actionables” like outreach recommendations and sales guidance. Outlit argues this level of insight will help companies prevent “churn” — business jargon for lost customers — or find opportunities to upsell.
Netanyahu fires back at Obama over ‘stolen land’ accusation: ‘We’re Jews in Judea’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at former President Barack Obama on Friday after Obama accused Israel of taking Palestinian land, declaring: “Our land is not stolen land. This is our homeland.”
“We’re not the Dutch in Indonesia. We’re not the Belgians in the Congo. We’re Jews in Judea,” Netanyahu said in a blistering video response.
The clash erupted after Obama told an audience in Northern Ireland that Israelis “took land off people and they were excessive,” arguing that Palestinians were justified in demanding their land back.
Armed bystander fatally shoots suspected teen gunman after 3 children, 1 adult killed at Oregon school
Three children and an adult were killed in a shooting at an Oregon elementary school Thursday, and the suspected gunman is also dead, shot by an armed good Samaritan.
The shooter was a 16-year-old Bend resident armed with a shotgun who was killed by an armed bystander with a concealed carry permit, federal law enforcement sources told Fox News.
The children killed at Silver Rail Elementary School were ages 5, 8 and 11, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said during an evening news conference.
A 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to St. Charles Bend with critical injuries.
The shooter forced his way into the school by firing at locked doors, Krantz said, citing the initial investigation.
A “community member” saw the shooter enter, pursued him into the building and engaged him, according to Krantz.
Online antisemitism hits record high three years after October 7, study finds
Online antisemitism has reached record levels three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, with none of the major social media platforms monitored returning to their prewar baselines, according to a new report by an Australian research institute.
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) found that July-September 2026 recorded the highest levels of antisemitic content in any three-month period since it began monitoring social media in 2022.
The findings challenge claims that rising antisemitism figures are largely attributable to the misclassification of legitimate criticism of Israel, the report said.
Five killed as Houthis target Yemen’s presidential palace in Aden with missiles
Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace complex in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, killing five people, the government said, as the Saudi-led coalition listed dozens of Houthi attacks on Saudi infrastructure in recent weeks.
Yemen’s prime minister and cabinet members who were at the Maashiq presidential palace complex were unharmed, Information Minister Moammar Al-Eryani said, adding that the Houthis had fired five missiles at the complex.
Groundbreaking Temple Mount seal find to be published
Thousands of tons of debris salvaged from the Temple Mount have yielded ancient seals, pottery and other fragments of Jerusalem’s past—and a research backlog that could take decades to unravel. For the Temple Mount Sifting Project, washing history out of discarded earth has proved only the beginning: Some of its most significant discoveries emerge years later, when researchers recognize what the recovered objects may reveal.
A study of a First Temple-period seal impression that may be connected to an official in the biblical account of King Josiah is expected to appear in the Israel Exploration Journal by the end of 2026, according to Temple Mount Sifting Project co-founder and director Zachi Dvira.
The clay impression, recovered by the project, bears the name “Yeda‘yah (son of) Asayahu.” Researchers have tentatively linked the father’s name to Asaiah, an adviser to King Josiah mentioned in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. The identification remains a possibility, not an established match.
Catholic priest defends polygamy in Africa, criticizes ‘Western family model’
An African priest and theologian who teaches in Germany has defended the widespread practice of polygamy in Africa while criticizing “the imported Western family model.”
Father Égide Muziazia, who teaches theology at the University of Münster, Germany, wrote an essay in the theological magazine feinschwarz defending polygamy in Africa.
He argued that when applying theological or moral norms to individual situations, one has to use “contextual theology.”
“This provision has far-reaching implications for pastoral practice: it cannot be transferred unchanged from one continent to another,” Muziazia stated. “Rather, it continually seeks answers to pastoral challenges that are tied to the respective local contexts in which each local church is able to fulfill its mission.”
Google Nest Cameras Offer Zero Local Storage — They Own Your Home Footage
Google sells you a security camera for your home, but every frame of footage it captures belongs to them. Not a single Nest-branded camera or video doorbell supports offline storage, according to BGR, meaning the only way to save your recordings is to pipe them through Google’s cloud — for a minimum of $10 per month.
This isn’t a feature gap. It’s a property rights question. You paid for the lens, the processor, the plastic housing. But the data those components generate inside your own house — the video of your kids, your front door, your daily routine — sits on Google’s servers, under Google’s terms, accessible to Google’s compliance teams whenever a warrant or a request comes knocking.
BGR framed the absence of local storage as a consumer convenience issue — a “big miss” for families who “don’t want to offload data to Big Tech, even if it is encrypted.” That framing buries the lede. The issue isn’t preference; it’s sovereignty. When the device inside your front hallway has no capacity to function without a tether to a corporate data center, you don’t own your security system. You’re renting access to your own footage.
Another coastal storm could be brewing for East Coast with impacts possible early next week
The potential for a coastal storm to develop along the East Coast early next week is growing, with numerous forecast models hinting at an area of low pressure forming off the Southeast coast.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, a fall cold front will push off the East Coast this weekend before slowing and stalling near the Southeast coastline.