Senator Bernie Sanders, in December 2025, became the first member of Congress to demand a moratorium on new AI data centers, and by March he partnered with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to i…
The United States is betting its economy and national security on winning the artificial intelligence race with China, with AI-related investment driving most of U.S. GDP growth and AI companies accou…
A letter to the editor by Jack Fleck of Oakland criticizes California's Proposition 45, arguing it would minimize environmental review for data centers, freeways, fossil-fuel power plants, dams, and s…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a 'thief and a liar' on X, mocking his proposal for city-owned grocery stores and asserting that AI and robots will delive…
Michigan House candidate Will Lawrence, a Democratic Socialists of America member, advocated for a federal moratorium on new AI data centers during a Fox News Digital interview on Saturday, arguing th…
A June 2026 survey found that about 7 in 10 Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, coinciding with Sen. Bernie Sanders' legislation t…
A June 2026 survey found about 70% of Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund, around the time Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to…
Chinese AI labs have released three models nearly as powerful as America's frontier systems at radically lower costs, threatening the expected hyper-profitability of U.S. labs like Anthropic and OpenA…
Senator Bernie Sanders challenged Elon Musk's claim that money will be irrelevant by 2036, demanding that Musk support a 5% wealth tax on billionaires if he truly believes his own prediction. Sanders …
Willie Nelson criticized AI data center construction near his hometown of Abbott, Texas, in an Instagram post on Tuesday, calling the facilities 'loud, water thieving, light polluting' and urging rura…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the Relentless podcast that AI will not lead to a four-hour workweek because humans enjoy being busy and competing with others. Altman argued that peo…
A new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity argues that AI will become the most powerful engine of American prosperity in decades, lowering prices and speeding production across industries, r…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an appearance on the "Relentless" podcast that AI will never lead to a shorter work week, arguing that people will be busier in a post-superintelligence world and wil…
At least five bills targeting AI data centers are moving through Congress, with the Ratepayer Protection Act—approved unanimously by the House Energy and Commerce Committee—leading the pack by requiri…
A government stake in AI companies, as proposed by President Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders, would not solve inequality and could create conflicts of interest, according to critics. Former pr…
Open-source AI models threaten the business models of proprietary labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, undermining Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposal for the federal government to take a 50% equity stake in lea…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the nation's first statewide moratorium on data center development, citing an overwhelming surge in applications from small communities that lack the negotiating powe…
Michael R. Bloomberg argues that government ownership stakes in AI companies would harm innovation, competition, and regulation, warning that politics would trump profits and lead to cronyism. He note…
AI is a weapon of class war designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power, and nationalizing it would not change that, argues a socialist critique of Bernie Sanders's proposal to half-nationalize bi…
The Trump administration is exploring taking equity stakes in AI companies, with OpenAI holding preliminary talks about giving Washington a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion at the company's $852 b…