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Democratic state Treasurer Fiona Ma and Republican former state Sen. Gloria Romero led early returns Tuesday night in California's lieutenant governor race, with Ma at 20.2% and Romero at 19% of the vote. The top two fin…
Meta is scaling back its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for AI training data after weeks of staff pushback, according to an internal memo. New controls will allow workers to pause …
Former U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Fox News host Steve Hilton and billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer led early returns in the California governor’s race on election night, signaling a potential Democr…
New York is poised to become the first state to enact a one-year moratorium on new AI data center construction, as state legislators plan to vote on a bill banning the facilities amid backlash over energy consumption and…
Former police officer and licensed family therapist Genny Altwer led the initial primary vote count Tuesday night in the race for San Jose's open District 9 City Council seat, followed by a tight pack of three candidates…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a voluntary process for leading AI companies to share certain upcoming models with the federal government for safety testing up to one month before wider rele…
Florida sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, alleging the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT while concealing serious risks, including providing instructions to children considering suicide…
Harvard Law Professor Jesse M. Fried and S.J.D. candidate Idan Reiter argue in a new paper that OpenAI and Anthropic have built-in governance conflicts by allowing self-appointed mission guardians to override profit-seek…
Young people are increasingly viewing artificial intelligence as more harmful than helpful, according to a new survey that reveals growing skepticism toward the technology among younger demographics. The shift in sentime…
Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO on Monday, becoming the third company to adopt a for-profit structure with investor-overriding mission guardians, a model that Harvard Law School researchers warn carries the "Be…
A U.S. district judge has ordered Elon Musk to turn over his Tesla and SpaceX emails as part of the discovery process in his lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Judge Mark Pittman overruled objections from Musk’s xAI, find…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, creating a voluntary framework for federal review of advanced AI systems before public release, asking developers to provide government access to covered …
On 2 June 2026, a group of researchers published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, an 11-page statement outlining concerns about AI-generated proofs, attribution, and impacts on peer revi…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today requiring top AI companies to voluntarily share upcoming models with the government for safety testing up to one month before public release, reversing his earlier d…
Google is paying select Android app developers for access to their Play Store code, according to a 404 Media report based on an email sent to a developer with millions of downloads. The program, described as a "confident…
Instagram has fixed a security flaw that allowed hackers to take over user accounts by tricking Meta's AI-powered support chatbot into resetting passwords. The attack, which compromised accounts including the Obama-era W…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in April plans to create a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem, Manhattan, the first of five such stores planned for each borough. The stores will feature union labor, low…
A former Google employee's LinkedIn post offering career guidance to laid-off tech workers resulted in 27 inbound calls within 24 hours, revealing that many talented professionals outside the AI safety ecosystem lack bas…
Google has secretly offered to pay Android app developers for access to their codebases to train its AI coding tools, 404 Media reported. The company emailed select Play Store developers about a "confidential content off…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is funding a "DOGE-bros" initiative that aims to profit from Medicare hospice care by using AI to reduce care for dying patients, framing undertreatment as efficiency. The strategy relies on en…