AI #171: False Flag
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an incremental improvement over Opus 4.7, as the Trump administration's Executive Order on AI returned, establishing a prior restraint framework for frontier model …
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an incremental improvement over Opus 4.7, as the Trump administration's Executive Order on AI returned, establishing a prior restraint framework for frontier model …
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow unveiled a detailed artificial intelligence policy agenda last week, proposing an AI Workforce Reinvestment Fund and a "token tax" on companies using AI to f…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring artificial intelligence companies to provide the federal government with early access to their advanced AI models. The order aims to ensure n…
OpenAI proposed mandatory third-party risk assessments for advanced AI models, diverging from President Trump's voluntary review framework established by a June 2026 executive order. The company's pol…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing agencies including the Pentagon and CISA to strengthen cyber defenses using AI tools within 30 days. The order allows AI developers to volunt…
Historian Niall Ferguson warned that the artificial intelligence competition between the United States and China mirrors the Cold War nuclear arms race, calling for comparable strategic doctrine and a…
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a framework for the federal government to evaluate AI models, requiring some companies to submit their most powerful systems for voluntary re…
Utah Republican congressional candidates Celeste Maloy and Phil Lyman called Monday for Congress to impose constraints on President Donald Trump's military actions in Iran, arguing lawmakers must auth…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Thursday after President Trump made comments regarding Iran, while artificial intelligence stocks surged following news of a potential Anthropic IPO.…
Opponents of federal AI regulation have spent the past year blocking legislation in Washington, but their strategy backfired this week when Illinois passed SB 315, the strictest state AI law to date. …
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite closed at fresh record highs on Friday, capping a winning month driven by an AI-fueled rally and investor anticipation of President Dona…
Meta has unexpectedly increased funding to its Oversight Board, providing a new lifeline after months of uncertainty about the body's future. The company's decision to boost financial support for the …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a $500 billion investment in U.S. data centers earlier this year, earning praise from President Trump and a rollback of export controls on some chips. Huang then flew…
A stabbing in San Francisco's Mission District on Sunday afternoon left one person critically injured, with a suspect in custody. The attack occurred near 19th and Mission streets around 3:15 p.m., af…
President Donald Trump said he instructed his negotiators “not to rush into a deal” with Iran, even as both sides report progress toward ending the war. An Iranian spokesman echoed the caution, statin…
According to the article, the U.S. Secret Service shot and killed a man who opened fire at a security checkpoint outside the White House, leading to a brief lockdown of the premises. The incident, whi…
Stephen Colbert returned to late-night television on Friday, just one day after taping the final episode of "The Late Show," by hosting a public access program in Monroe, Michigan—the same show he app…
The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned the U.S. government to potentially sanction China over its distant water fishing fleets' practice of shark finning, which involves cutting off sharks…
President Trump abruptly canceled a planned executive order that would have established voluntary pre-deployment safety evaluations for frontier AI models, hours before the scheduled signing ceremony.…
Google announced new AI agents for Gmail and YouTube at its I/O conference, deepening tensions with publishers over content use and attribution. The features automate tasks like email drafting and vid…