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 …
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…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday accelerating two AI laws signed last week on independent verification organizations and kill switches, as more than 600 AI bills in 47 …
The U.S. Senate blocked the Clarity Act from advancing on a 49-50 vote after Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released a version she said added ethics requirements for President Donald Trump, who earned …
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…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will call on Wednesday for an immediate pause on advanced AI development, stopping short of the superintelligence ban and up to 20 years in prison for violations propos…
A New York Times/Siena University poll of 1,503 likely voters released Tuesday found 61 percent oppose construction of data centers to power AI, with only 14 percent strongly in support. Opposition wa…
President Trump called the idea that AI could destroy humanity a "hoax" comparable to climate change, arguing the only guardrail needed is a "STRONG AND SMART (HIGH IQ!) PRESIDENT," while Nvidia CEO J…
Former President Barack Obama said in a Monday post on X that he is "not an AI accelerationist" and "not a doomer," calling the frontier AI labs' agreement to slow development a "good and necessary fi…
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei's September essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" calls for pacing AI capability advances so safety work can keep up, a position backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and other indust…
Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris called for stronger oversight and a slowdown in artificial intelligence development, following a proposal by Anthropic CEO Da…
Axios found that none of nearly 20 potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders support Bernie Sanders' call to pause AI development, and only former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel offered a critique…
A new Axios-Generation Lab poll of 1,075 Americans aged 18-34 finds that 27% believe they or someone they know has lost a job due to AI replacement, and 66% disapprove of President Trump's job perform…
A landmark California law taking effect Sunday, Aug. 9, will require AI companies to embed invisible 'digital fingerprints' into AI-generated images, videos, and audio, allowing users to verify conten…
California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ro Khanna reintroduced the AI Ads Act on Monday, seeking to ban the fraudulent use of artificial intelligence to impersonate political candidates or comm…
Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton released a campaign ad Thursday that uses AI-generated animation to depict Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris and the sta…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company's new documentary series 'The American Experiment' features 17 minutes of AI-enhanced footage produced twice as fast and at half the cost of traditional me…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company used AI to produce 17 minutes of the documentary 'The American Experiment' twice as fast and at half the cost, as the streaming giant faces rising content …
The White House's official X account posted an AI-generated image trolling Taylor Swift's wedding announcement to Travis Kelce, featuring the phrase "Trump is your president" and an "America's Eras To…
Journalist Kara Swisher, known for her decades covering Silicon Valley, is leveraging her podcast platform to engage potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, including Gavin Newsom and Pete …