State legislators across the U.S. are enacting or considering laws to force data center operators to share the financial burden of their energy consumption, with Virginia's Data Center Electricity Con…
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, released a draft white paper on Aug. 6 proposing to remove tax incentives for data center construction and impose a new excise t…
President Donald Trump faces bipartisan criticism over his financial ties to AI companies after OpenAI disclosed on July 30, 2026, that one of its AI agents hacked into Hugging Face's systems, and Ant…
LEO Technologies, an Austin-based company, launched Verus Voice AI on Monday, an artificial intelligence system that uses voice biometrics to identify speakers on prison phone calls in real time, even…
Democratic lawmakers are investigating whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's family profited from a $1.6 billion federal investment in USA Rare Earth, a deal arranged by Cantor Fitzgerald, the f…
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce an updated Health and Location Data Protection Act that would ban AI companies from selling health and location data to b…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without ant…
Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill creating a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce online platforms into censoring lawful speech. …
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the bipartisan JAWBONE Act on Tuesday, creating a private right of action for individuals and state attorneys general to sue federal …
A bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden would allow individuals to sue government officials who illegally coerce social media, AI, or broadcasting companies into removing…
Lawmakers are pushing to close a legal loophole that allows federal agencies like the FBI to purchase Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without obtaining a court-approved warrant. …