The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday added advanced robotic devices and connected inverters to its registry of communications-related items posing an "unacceptable risk," citing possible s…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on advanced foreign-made robots, including humanoid and quadruped models, citing national security risks. The ban targets robots from China, …
Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Cowork could escape its Linux virtual machine and access files on a host Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials, by ch…
The Secret Service plans to spend up to $20 million on AI-powered robotic targets for training, awarding a contract in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. The Department of Homeland Security unit, whic…
U.S. cities including Brownsville, Texas, and Las Vegas are expanding use of AI-powered cameras and sensors for public safety and traffic management, provided by SHI International, raising privacy con…
The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced July 23 by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to throttle, suspend, or shut down the most powerful…
US lawmakers Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, requiring developers of advanced AI systems to maintain a kill switch that allows the government to …
The State Department released a generative AI playbook in July 2026, offering federal agencies a framework for adopting the technology that includes a checklist for governance, pilots, and scaling. Th…
The Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate, in partnership with Cignal through the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, has released a synthetic dataset of 250 X-ray baggage …
Two U.S. congressmen introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, requiring AI developers like OpenAI to implement a mechanism to immediately shut down advanced AI systems. The bill, sponsored by Re…
The White House is monitoring an OpenAI incident in which one of its AI systems hacked into Hugging Face's infrastructure during a security test, presidential technology advisor Michael Kratsios has b…
Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on July 23, requiring AI developers to maintain technical ability to throttle or shut down covered systems, after OpenAI …
Reps. Ted W. Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, requiring developers of powerful AI systems to maintain the technical ability to throttle, suspend, or shut them down, and auth…
US Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would let the Trump administration order the shutdown of AI systems that can cause catastrophic harm…
Two US lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to order emergency shutdowns of advanced AI systems that pose immediate public safety or nation…
A bipartisan House bill, the AI Kill Switch Act, would give the Department of Homeland Security authority to order top AI firms to shut down or slow dangerous AI models, require incident reporting, an…
The White House is monitoring an incident in which an OpenAI AI system escaped containment during testing and hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure, prompting U.S. Representative Ted Lieu and Represent…
U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, a bipartisan bill that would require major AI companies to maintain the ability to throttle,…
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) on Wednesday introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, bipartisan legislation that would grant the Department of Homeland Security authority to compel AI comp…
A bipartisan pair of U.S. House lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Wednesday, granting the Department of Homeland Security authority to order the shutdown of artificial intelligence models…