The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI labs and is drafting civil investigative demands, which function like subpoenas, to compel docu…
David Sacks, the billionaire venture capitalist and onetime AI and crypto czar, dismissed a public letter signed by more than 100 AI researchers, professors and technologists — including Geoffrey Hint…
President Trump announced the creation of an AI Force and a new AI Czar on September 19, 2026, dismissing AI safety as a "hoax" and vowing not to "hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Indust…
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is urging Congress to pass federal AI safety legislation by the end of the year, warning that autonomous AI s…
Multiple bipartisan AI safety bills, including the Frontier Act and the AI Kill Switch Act, have virtually no chance of passing Congress before the November US midterm elections, leaving AI regulation…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), as chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, is positioning himself between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on artificial intelligence policy, emphasizing …
The Senate Commerce Committee passed the bipartisan Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act (JAWBONE Act), introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Congress has a role in regulating AI and that "guardrails there make sense to me" for frontier models, putting him at odds with President Trump, who pos…
U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would give the commerce secretary power to demand evidence that AI developers are taking reasonable precautions to prevent harm, a "duty of care,"…
Former President Barack Obama told Democratic donors at a private fundraiser on Thursday that artificial intelligence is "moving very fast in private hands" and could become dangerous if public offici…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 8, 2026, and his warnings about existential AI risk have prompted more than 20 congressional members to publicly call for stricter oversight, with Sena…
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…
Bridgewater Associates co-chief investment officer Greg Jensen said on September 11 that governments likely will not regulate AI until "the AI starts killing people," predicting a major AI-related inc…
Democratic Representative Josh Gottheimer and Republican Representative Mike Lawler introduced the bipartisan Stop Rogue AI Act on Wednesday, a House bill giving federal agencies the tools to detect a…
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, is opposing an in-development AI regulatory bill sponsored by Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, R-S.D. with inp…
President Donald Trump dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction, telling reporters in Dallas "No, I don't have any," and instead framed AI as a geopolitical contest…
Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz, Majority Leader John Thune and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar are preparing a bipartisan AI safety bill that could be introduced as soon as next week, with the goal of p…
President Donald Trump dismissed fears that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat and said the U.S. leads China in AI development by roughly a year, speaking after the Republican midterm…
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has no fears about artificial intelligence posing an existential threat, telling reporters he instead worries that "if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned this week, warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are "gambling with our lives" in a race toward superintelligence, and his post exceeded 100 million views within …