Senate Majority Leader John Thune is locked in negotiations over a bipartisan AI safety bill, Politico reports, as concerns about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence escalate. Thune, a former Co…
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), policy chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said in a Politico interview published Sunday that federal oversight of artificial intelligence may be warranted, callin…
Jacob Gold published an open letter on jacob.gold calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to back a law requiring any AI model offered to the public to be released as open weights, following Amodei's "W…
A new Politico report finds that over a dozen lawmakers and congressional aides say Congress lacks the urgency and technical understanding to regulate AI, with Representative Sam Liccardo (D-CA) telli…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic with a warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could produce uncontrollable systems posing an existential risk to humanity…
The Pentagon's forthcoming cyber strategy will prioritize offensive operations aimed at delivering "big outcomes" for the defense secretary and President Donald Trump, Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, depu…
OpenAI met with utility executives beginning July 20 to pitch using its AI products to defend grid security, Politico reported, as Anthropic warned that AI companies are racing toward "superhuman syst…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AI safety evaluation legislation backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, according to Politico. The bills require safety evaluations of AI models in the state, with the…
Lawmakers in both parties are escalating pleas for legislative action after an AI researcher claimed late Tuesday that unchecked AI models could feasibly destroy the world by the decade's end, and AI …
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) criticized artificial intelligence developers as 'high IQ stupid people' during a Senate hearing on September 6, 2026, according to Politico. Kennedy argued that tech compani…
An investigation has revealed that the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, a purported American think tank with no real offices or scholars, was a sophisticated Israeli-funded propaganda operation de…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use in public schools through eighth grade, affecting more than 600,000 students and discontinuing over 38 AI features, includi…
New York City has banned AI in elementary and middle schools, a one-year moratorium affecting 600,000 students, according to Politico and the Associated Press. The ban applies to any software using st…
States are defying the tech lobby by passing their own artificial intelligence regulations, according to a Politico report. The article details how Silicon Valley's opposition has failed to stop state…
President Donald Trump is backing data center development despite polling showing widespread opposition, with a May Gallup survey finding 70 percent of Americans oppose AI data centers in their commun…
New York City public schools will ban generative AI for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, affecting 600,000 students, according to multiple reports. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed Wednesday that the Trump administration is developing a framework to impose tariffs on semiconductors, saying 'if you build here, you don't pay, but if you …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attempted to lobby California Gov. Gavin Newsom before the state legislature passed Senate Bill 1119, a kids' AI chatbot safety bill, on Monday. The bill, authored by state senat…
Meta is rolling out an update to its AI glasses that will stop the camera if the LED indicator light is covered during recording, closing a loophole that allowed users to hide the recording light. The…
The Trump administration is weighing semiconductor tariffs of up to 100% that could also cover data center servers, laptops, and gaming consoles, potentially raising costs for the AI buildout before U…