Alex Bores, a New York assemblyman who campaigned on AI safety, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district. Pro-AI industry super PAC Leading the Future …
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White House on a bill package that would trade child safety and deepfake protections for preemption over state AI laws. The Fable incident has spurred Con…
U.S. lawmakers are struggling to keep pace with rapid AI advancements, introducing over 1,300 state-level AI bills this year while lacking independent technical expertise. Programs like the Conservati…
A MAGA-friendly advocacy group, Innovation Council Action, announced a $100m push to promote Trump's AI agenda but has shown no spending or activity months later, with a related PAC defunct and a diss…
Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian argues that the U.S. government's shutdown of Anthropic's Fable and Mythos AI models via export controls was reckless and counterproductive, as it fails to enhance safety w…
The Trump administration used an export control directive to force Anthropic to suspend access to its frontier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, effectively establishing a licensing regime for AI. The m…
The White House is negotiating federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for support on child protection measures, while OpenAI called for an international organization capable of slowing f…
OpenAI publicly stated it does not direct or fund the super PAC Leading the Future, but internal communications and the PAC's own operatives contradict that claim. OpenAI President Greg Brockman and h…
AI safety researchers are exploring whether future advanced AI systems could be offered incentives like money or computing power in exchange for cooperating with human operators, rather than attemptin…
The Great American AI Act, a 269-page bill from Reps. Obernolte and Trahan, is the most serious AI safety proposal yet, authorizing a $100 million Center for AI Standards and Innovation and requiring …
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 Tuesday establishing a voluntary pre-deployment evaluation regime for frontier AI models, requiring companies to share new models with the government f…
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. …
Anthropic employees have donated more than $880,000 directly to political campaigns favoring stricter AI regulations, with OpenAI staff contributing an additional $300,000, according to FEC data analy…
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, fails to address the most pressing questions of transformative artificial intelligence, focusing instead on dated issues like algorithmic bias and …
AI researcher Nathan Witkin has challenged the validity of METR's widely-cited Long Tasks benchmark, arguing its methodology is fundamentally flawed despite its status as a leading indicator of AI cap…
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.…
At a Berkeley conference on AI control, attendees participated in a roleplaying game where each player acted as a double-dealing AI agent with a secret side task, while also monitoring others for susp…
OpenAI has reversed its position on a controversial Illinois AI bill, disavowing the liability shield provision it previously endorsed and instead backing a stronger safety bill that requires third-pa…
U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) initially distanced herself from the pro-artificial intelligence super PAC Leading the Future after it endorsed her, stating she did not seek the endorsement and criticizing…