AI Policy

US Air Force engineer Jeffrey Sovern, charged with destroying 13 Flock AI-powered surveillance cameras in Virginia, has received over $15,000 from more than 400 donors on GoFundMe for his legal defense. Sovern faces 13 c…

AT&T won early federal approval from the FCC to end landline service for 184,000 California households, overriding a state order to maintain service. The decision keeps AT&T's broader bid alive to have federal regulators…

Fifty years after the nation celebrated its Bicentennial with patriotism and unity under President Gerald Ford, the 250th anniversary in 2026 has been co-opted by President Donald Trump into a self-aggrandizing spectacle…

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, a debate over American decline versus China's rise intensifies, but the U.S. retains strong technological, military, and economic foundations. Despite domestic challenges…

Organizers of the NeurIPS 2026 conference added hidden prompts to papers to catch peer reviewers using generative AI, sparking backlash from researchers who say the tactic erodes trust. The conference bans AI chatbots fo…

Maureen Dowd reflects on her parents' belief in fairness as an American trait, contrasting it with modern greed and political corruption, including the Trump family's kleptocracy and the fatal shootings in Minneapolis.

A security researcher discovered that Apple's Hide My Email service has a vulnerability that exposes users' real email addresses, affecting 100% of tested addresses. The flaw was reported to Apple in June 2025 but remain…

A developer argues that Functional AI—the simplest category of AI—is widely misunderstood as a pattern engine rather than a mind. The post distinguishes Functional AI from Agentic AI, noting that it generates outputs bas…

The United Auto Workers union is furious after General Motors replaced 1,000 workers at its Detroit Factory Zero plant with 50 AI-integrated robots, known as "cobots." The UAW says the layoffs undermine recent contract g…

Chinese firms operate, finance, or hold stakes in about one third of all ports in Africa and now control the software, automation, and AI tools that run the infrastructure, according to a study by the Africa Centre for S…

BlackRock launched a $100 million initiative to train 50,000 skilled trades workers for the AI boom, partnering with companies like Walmart and Google to address infrastructure labor shortages. The five-year program aims…

Actor Preity Zinta moved the Bombay High Court seeking removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images, and unauthorized chatbot personas using her likeness. Justice Madhav Jamdar directed parties and online plat…

A new study from The University of Manchester argues that universities must rethink how they teach and assess students as artificial intelligence transforms education and work. The paper, authored by Dr. Kelechi Ekuma, c…

Chinese AI company Zhipu AI launched ZCode, an autonomous coding agent, on Wednesday, capitalizing on Anthropic's scandal over hidden code in Claude Code that tracked Chinese users. Zhipu offered free tokens and increase…

Japan launched Noetra, a ¥380 billion AI company backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda, and METI, to secure national leadership in physical AI and robotics. The coalition aims to reduce reliance on foreign AI models and p…

India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to summon Meta officials over Instagram ads allegedly promoting child sexual abuse material, following a BBC report doc…

AI researcher Renee DiResta argued in a June 30, 2026 Noema Magazine essay that autonomous AI agents will force online platforms to require proof of human identity for legal accountability, citing an incident where an ag…

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, marking the birth of the United States as an independent nation. The annual celebration of Independence Day…

President Lee Jae Myung defended his government's three megaprojects—semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers—as a long-term national transformation plan, not a bid to boost approval ratings. Samsung and SK hynix…

A new podcast called 'Radio Free AI' has launched on Spotify, positioning itself as the voice of resistance in the AI space. The show aims to provide alternative perspectives on artificial intelligence development and po…