Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, running for Wisconsin governor, reversed his January support for data centers and is now attacking Democratic opponent David Crowley as "Data Center David Crowley" wh…
The Revolving Door Project argues that Congress lacks independent technical expertise to regulate frontier AI, citing the 1995 closure of the Office of Technology Assessment under then-House Speaker N…
President Donald Trump used a surprise phone call to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during an All-In Podcast summit to reject pressure to regulate AI, calling reports of an AI apocalypse a "hoax" and vowing …
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," w…
OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), away from Amazon, where she directed public policy in New York, to oversee policy and partnerships across the Nor…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) chaired an August 4 Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled "Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing," where he called surveillance pricing "…
Anthropic, the frontier AI lab, is building a predictive surveillance system to monitor activists and report potential threats to police before crimes occur, according to job postings and interviews w…
A Mother Jones investigation found that 19 police agencies in 10 states have spent nearly $1 million from opioid settlement funds on Flock automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), which use AI-powered…
A Heatmap News poll finds that American opposition to data centers has surged from 42 percent net opposition a year ago to 75 percent net opposition, with 61 percent of Americans now strongly opposing…
Max Rose, a former Democratic congressman and top adviser to the veterans' political network VoteVets, has also been an adviser to Leading the Future, an AI industry-backed organization that has raise…
Anthropic has posted a job opening for a Head of National Security Sales, signaling a potential return to defense contracting after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company earlier this year.…