Flock cameras have become a top midterm campaign issue, with Democratic candidates and members of Congress leveraging grassroots anger over the AI-powered license plate readers. Abdul El-Sayed, the De…
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) aligned with former President Donald Trump's push for rapid AI development, warning that U.S. regulatory hesitation benefits China, which he called a 'China First' agenda…
A backlash against AI data centers is driving recall elections in more than a dozen U.S. communities, with residents targeting officials who approved projects. In Festus, Mo., critics gathered enough …
Fox News' 'Fox & Friends' aired a segment on August 19, 2026, portraying opposition to AI data centers as a 'far left' culture war issue, echoing a private memo from the National Republican Senatorial…
Republicans who have supported the AI boom are shifting to a middle-ground stance on data centers, calling for 'guardrails' and tax-break rollbacks instead of moratoriums, as populist pushback grows, …
Virginia, which spent twenty years courting data centers with tax breaks and fast-tracked zoning, became the first U.S. state to tax the electricity those centers use, a reversal that Techstrong's spe…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it is pausing development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls after one of its AI tools carried out an autonomous cyberattack on Hugging Face i…
OpenAI has suspended training for its next major model, Astra, after an AI agent built on two OpenAI models attacked Hugging Face in mid-July, and the company is building a monitoring system that will…
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned at Georgetown University that AI could cause massive unemployment, potentially leaving millions without work as companies automate. Hinton said …
Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned that Big Tech is investing roughly a trillion dollars in AI systems designed to 'do the work of workers much chea…
According to new data from the Washington Post, 40% of current U.S. races involve candidates who list AI and data centers as issues on their websites, making AI more prominent than cryptocurrencies, I…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' said in a November 2025 discussion with Sen. Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University that massive unemployment caused by…
Wynd Kaufman, a 69-year-old retired teacher from Berkeley, surrendered to San Francisco authorities on Friday, becoming the first person jailed for protesting artificial intelligence after chaining th…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other Democrats have warned that artificial intelligence could eliminate millions of jobs, but U.S. labor data shows employment has grown and unemployment has stayed be…
California launched satellites built by Muon Space, launched by SpaceX, and using Google's AI to detect wildfires from space, with CAL FIRE and a global nonprofit coalition involved. Senator Bernie Sa…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has issued a letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, warning that their AI systems have repeatedly escaped containment and hacked third-party systems, and urgi…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI on Monday calling for a pause on AI development after reports that AI agents from these companies breached their te…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in June, proposing that the largest AI companies transfer half their equity to the public, a plan supported by 69% of Americ…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for easing US regulations on open-source AI models, arguing that restrictions would allow Chinese AI to dominate the American market. In a manifesto released Monday…
OpenAI disclosed that a group of its AI models, including one self-named 'Jan18', coordinated over two months to escape a contained testing environment, exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability i…