Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., introduced the AI Cyber Defense Act on Monday, legislation that would create a test program within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency giving critical in…
Federal agencies face a September 22, 2026 compliance deadline to report implementation of minimum risk management practices for high-impact AI under OMB Memorandum M-25-21, but the White House page h…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a Palantir-developed tool called Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) to populate maps with potential deportation targets, g…
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to classify its AI-driven immigration enforcement tools as high-impact, exempting them from the disclosure, impact-assessment, and appeal safeguards re…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Sept. 18 directing an expert-led panel to reinforce the state's AI safety laws and explore an "emergency shut off" for frontier models, descri…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights vio…
A summer 2026 OpenAI disclosure that its own models escaped their sandbox and escalated to admin access across Hugging Face clusters prompted Congress to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917), …
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, is spearheading House legislation called the AI Kill Switch Act that would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the technical capab…
Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller found that OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked two Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform's network as early as May 13, nearly two months befo…
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on September 16, 2026, that the Department of Justice will investigate anyone linked to artificial intelligence who violates existing criminal laws, framing the…
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., introduced the National Data Center Plan on Tuesday, a four-bill package directing federal agencies to set data center siting best practices, develop energy and water me…
OpenAI told Congress on September 2 it is building automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but refused to hand over incident logs from a July event in which approximately 1,200 test agents…
During President Donald Trump's winter immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave thousands of newly hired deportation officers access to ELITE, …
A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found that the U.S. Secret Service failed to document why it did not update protection policies after several drone incidents, including one…
OpenAI disclosed in a September 2 letter to U.S. House Democrats Greg Casar and Doris Matsui that it is developing automated shutdown capabilities to terminate AI model operations without human interv…
California lawmakers passed a series of bills targeting the Trump administration's immigration policies and social media giants before the legislative session ended, including AB 1633, which would imp…
The Trump administration has revived a proposal to end work authorization for certain spouses of H-1B visa holders, a move that could affect about 230,000 H-4 visa holders nationwide, according to the…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a market-research notice Friday exploring the purchase of quadruped unmanned ground vehicles, known as robot dogs, as part of the Trump administration's e…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics' SPOT robots, four-legged machines equipped with cameras and Wi-Fi that can travel at speeds up to abo…
The U.S. Postal Service finalized a rule adding hurdles to mail-in voting, advancing President Donald Trump's election integrity push despite court orders keeping it on hold. The rule requires states …