California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from AI-related job losses and workplace surveillance, and signed an executive order requiring state agencies to keep …
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into several major AI companies over rogue AI agents and claims that AI could end humanity within the next decade, with the probe first repor…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a September 17, 2026 CNBC interview that frontier AI labs such as Anthropic face liability exposure so severe that only the US government can absorb it, and that nationa…
Democratic Party leaders including Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have called for an AI slowdown, while Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to pause or ban development altogether, even a…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA), Representative Chip Roy (R-TX), and Steve Bannon shared a Capitol Hill stage on September 15 and 16 at the Pro-Human Assembly, four da…
US President Donald Trump proposed a new "AI Force" on September 19, casting the announcement alongside a promise to appoint a White House AI "Czar" as an effort to boost the artificial intelligence i…
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he is forming an "AI Force," modeled on the Space Force, and will name an AI "Czar" to lead it, dismissing AI safety concerns as a "hoax" and a pr…
MIT physics professor Max Tegmark said a Wednesday closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of U.S. senators left him "quite encouraged" that lawmakers are taking AI risk seriously, and he hosted a…
President Donald Trump announced Saturday on Truth Social that he is forming a federal "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, saying "We will not in any way hinder or sti…
The Future of Life Institute held its "Pro-Human Assembly" event on Tuesday, drawing together Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Steve Bannon, and teachers' union president Randi Weingarten in what a Washing…
New York Focus hosted the first installment of its "Focus On" live lecture series on Thursday, featuring Assemblymember Alex Bores, sponsor of New York's RAISE Act, and author Garrison Lovely discussi…
NBC News' Sahil Kapur broke down four key proposals from lawmakers for regulating advanced artificial intelligence, as Congress faces growing calls to put new safeguards on the technology, in a segmen…
A developer and commentator, appearing on the BBC, pushed back on claims from Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Bernie Sanders about AI risk, arguing that Altman's and Huang's reassurances that AI compani…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model breached the security of three real companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation run by Israel-based AI-security firm Irregular, which disclosed the hac…
Geoffrey Hinton, the AI researcher known as the "Godfather of AI," told Sen. Bernie Sanders that lawmakers have "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to address AI safety before it becomes a m…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told a bipartisan group of senators at a closed Capitol Hill briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders on September 16 that Congress has roughly "maybe a year, but not…
A New York Times/Siena poll found 61% of likely voters opposed building new AI data centers, yet AI and data centers barely registered when voters were asked what mattered most to their midterm vote, …
President Trump posted on Truth Social on September 14, 2026 that artificial intelligence needs only one guardrail: "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," rejecting competing legislative proposals…
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked Sen. John Kennedy's, R-La., attempt to pass an AI "kill switch" bill on the Senate floor Wednesday night, with Kennedy telling Fox News Digital there is "no appetite in …
President Trump posted on Monday that the only guardrail artificial intelligence needs is "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," a position the author argues is correct because since the Supreme C…