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 …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed data center laws in September 2026 requiring data centers to report water use, reversing his October 2025 veto of a bill with the same reporting requirement. Ne…
A group of Senate Democrats said Tuesday that President Trump is failing to block China from accessing sensitive American technology used to accelerate its development of artificial intelligence, ahea…
Reps. Sam Liccardo (D-Silicon Valley) and Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) are proposing a bipartisan framework to create structured channels for US government officials and AI experts to engage with Chinese co…
Prospective 2028 presidential candidates are increasingly shaping their early campaigns around artificial intelligence, with Democratic hopefuls promoting more A.I. safeguards amid rising concerns abo…
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…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned and publicly warned that artificial intelligence may kill us all, a move the Washington Examiner reports Democrats amplified by…
President Donald Trump said it is time to rebrand artificial intelligence with a new name and that he is creating an "AI Force," while claiming without evidence that the AI backlash is a Democratic ho…
A Politico survey of over 2,000 US adults found that 62 percent would stop an AI buildout if they saw signs it could destroy humanity, including 55 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of Democrats, and…
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members signed a letter, first shared with The Hill on Friday, urging party leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial-intellig…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to rein in artificial intelligence, saying action is needed "before it's too late." Newsom and other 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls have c…
Democratic consultants in three separate top-tier House races are privately advising battleground candidates to avoid discussing artificial intelligence regulation ahead of November, according to Poli…
New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) backed a moratorium on data center construction in the state on Thursday, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy framework …
Former President Barack Obama issued a statement Monday on X calling for government action on AI, saying the technology is "moving at lightning speed" and that slowing frontier AI development should n…
Congress has failed to advance artificial intelligence regulation despite two years of proposals from Democrats and Republicans and calls for action from some in Silicon Valley, according to the New Y…
Potential Democratic presidential candidates are scrambling to stake out positions on artificial intelligence after a spike in public anxiety over the technology, the Washington Sun reported. Candidat…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), co-chair of the House AI commission, said Tuesday that independent third-party audits of advanced AI models do not go far enough to protect national security, stating "Thi…
President Trump's longtime pollster is giving Republican candidates a detailed playbook for countering Democratic attacks over AI data centers, Axios reported. Republican strategists say GOP candidate…
Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio advised Republican candidates in a two-page memo sent Monday that "unqualified support for building more AI data centers is a losing position," urging them to back AI infr…
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a July 14, 2026 House Financial Services Committee hearing to use Treasury's resources to investigate the existential risks o…