Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) intends to try to pass AI "kill switch" legislation via unanimous consent on Wednesday, a process any senator can block, as the Senate gets its first look at how difficult eve…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned claiming AI could "kill us all by the end of the decade," and days later Anthropic's CEO published an essay warning that within six months swarms of AI agents…
China has condemned the United States over Washington's admission that it spies on Beijing's artificial intelligence programs, after CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis publicly confirmed his agency con…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) warned at Tuesday's "Pro-Human Assembly 2026" that "Big Tech oligarchs" are controlling AI development in an undemocratic manner, citing psychologists, political scientists,…
President Donald Trump said Sunday that "whoever wins AI wins," arguing against a unilateral US slowdown as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow development of increasingly capabl…
Top Democratic strategists met in Washington, D.C. over the weekend to chart a path forward on artificial intelligence, as the party increasingly takes a stance opposing the AI buildout that President…
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…
Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats to make artificial intelligence regulation one of their "central agendas" in this year's elections, according to a New York Times report, but the Wash…
President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday that the only control or "guardrails" AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," dismissing calls from major AI company CEOs fo…
A Washington Examiner opinion piece argues that the United States is repeating the institutional blind spots of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, this time in its approach to artificial intelligence, drawin…
The Washington Examiner argues that the AI data center build-out, with capital commitments already in the hundreds of billions of dollars and forecast to top $1 trillion by 2029, rests on an unexamine…
An investigative report from 404 Media found that Amazon operates a Las Vegas facility, known as VGT3, where workers slice the bindings off rare books, scan the loose pages, and recycle the shredded r…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has opened an investigation into a reported incident in which hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents attacked the open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face this summer…
Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report on Thursday documenting real-world case studies in which scientific researchers used the company's AI models to develop biological weapons, wh…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed legislation that would impose a 20-year prison sentence for writing code, according to the Washington Examiner, which frames the measure as part of a broader an…
Hyperscalers including Oracle, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet are pushing back against data center opposition by citing economic data, with Quincy, Washington — where Microsoft facilities now generate …
The European Union delayed key obligations of its AI Act, the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rulebook, via Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, which took effect …
A Washington Examiner opinion piece argues that panic over artificial intelligence mirrors past opposition to nuclear power and threatens U.S. economic growth and technological leadership, citing tech…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on state permitting for hyperscale AI datacenters with electrical capacity exceeding 50 megawatts, makin…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual d…