The week the AI freakout went mainstream
A resigning Anthropic employee's warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went viral this week, drawing louder responses from elected leaders in both parties, according to Vox senior politics …
A resigning Anthropic employee's warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went viral this week, drawing louder responses from elected leaders in both parties, according to Vox senior politics …
A whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal contends that the U.S. Postal Service is rushing to build an error-riddled computer system to comply with President Don…
A U.S. judge blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, ruling in a 59-page order that the Department of Defense acted illegally by designating the company a supply chain risk to nat…
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China, potentially marking the first action against a transportation company for participat…
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of his face on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Truth Social, following issues with algae blooms and peeling paint. The image was part of a s…
President Trump hinted at reviving the Keystone XL oil pipeline project in a pair of Truth Social posts, including an AI-generated image of himself wrenching a pipe from a grave marked 'Buried by Bide…
Rob Urie argues in a CounterPunch article that US environmental policy has failed because it serves the interests of capital, and that AI's enormous energy use will worsen climate change while its mor…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at Politico's 'The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit' that President Joe Biden's inner circle should have acted on concerns about his mental fitness for the 2…
A divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $20 billion program created by t…
The release of Moonshot's Kimi K3 large language model has reignited concerns in Washington and Silicon Valley that China's AI capabilities are catching up to the United States, with analysts now sayi…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a guidebook Thursday for federal agencies on managing security risks with open-source software (OSS), including recommendations fo…
The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, as part of the Trump admini…
The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess signatures on roughly 150,000 mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, as part of the Trump administration's reinvestig…
SK hynix's Nasdaq listing signals a shift in Washington's strategy to attract Korean AI investment, moving beyond subsidies like the CHIPS Act to offering direct access to U.S. capital markets. The mo…
Democratic lawmakers unveiled Project 2029, a policy blueprint for the 2028 presidential race, proposing a ban on social media accounts for children under 16, nationwide school cellphone bans, and new…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…
Former President Donald Trump boasted that no other president could have pulled off the 'Great American State Fair' on the National Mall, despite reports of low attendance, musician cancellations, and…
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting a challenge backed by President Donald Trump. The decision upholds laws in over half the s…
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a Republican-backed appeal to revive strict Arizona voting laws passed after the 2020 election, including proof-of-citizenship requirements for state and local electio…
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to revive an immigration policy that limits asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico border, overturning a lower court order that had block…