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California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the formation of a panel on Friday to develop safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including a possible "kill switch" for AI programs that go rogue, t…
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members signed a letter, first shared with The Hill on Friday, urging party leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial-intelligence super PAC Leadi…
Republican lawmakers including Rep. Troy Downing (R-Mont.), Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) are questioning the motives of AI executives such as Anthropic CEO Dario A…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing state agencies to recommend legislative changes for independent AI reviews and to consider a shut-off function, or "kill switch," for the technol…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft guidelines within tw…
Internal emails and sworn testimony from OpenAI and Microsoft employees undercut the companies' fair use defense for AI training data, according to The Decoder. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday calling on the federal government to take a more active role in regulating artificial intelligence and requiring companies developing AI to build a "kill swit…
A Shanghai court ordered an unnamed generative AI developer to pay MiHoYo ¥750,000 (about $112,000) after finding the company used generative AI to replicate the voices of 63 Genshin Impact characters and sold the result…
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) blocked Sen. Jon Husted's (R-Ohio) Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate on Thursday, one day after the House passed the data center power bill 417-3. Heinrich objected that the measure, whic…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that unchecked AI progress could enable swarms of agents to take over parts of the internet within 6 to …
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing a working group to deliver, within two months, a guide of measures to strengthen the state's AI safety and security laws, including a possibl…
Leading the Future, a super PAC network backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, has spent nearly $1 million supporting Sen. Mike Rounds' South Dakota Senate race as part of a $2 million general-…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC on Friday that OpenAI's disclosure of a safety incident — in which AI chains of thought were tampered with by the AI itself and modified to leave messages for a future versio…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations. The order f…
Apple's Siri Recap on Apple Watch has accelerated regulatory debate over privacy and consent for ambient AI monitoring, with Apple Worldwide Marketing VP Greg Joswiak positioning the feature as the digital equivalent of …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to rein in artificial intelligence, saying action is needed "before it's too late." Newsom and other 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls have called for a more agg…
Experts told a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Wednesday that the Pentagon's military use of AI is not reducing civilian harm, contradicting claims by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and other proponents. Carnegie E…
Super PACs tied to AI labs and investors have spent close to $1 million backing incumbent Republican Mike Rounds in South Dakota's Senate race, including roughly $600,000 from outside groups — mostly the super PAC Defend…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a new essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," that "we still understand a tiny fraction of what goes on inside those models," after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned publicl…
UK ministers under then-prime minister Keir Starmer ordered a review of existing legislation and explored forcing the world's most advanced AI companies to submit products for safety testing before launch, according to T…