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Advocates for AI safety and regulation are emerging as a force in U.S. elections, spending nearly $50 million this election cycle on candidates who favor regulation, a new analysis shared exclusively with Axios shows.Why it matters: The safety spending points to the unusual power dynamics in the AI…
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services,…
Scratch the surface of the year's biggest stories — the Iran war and AI — and both are bound up in the costs of energy.Why it matters: Prices for gasoline, diesel and power are playing a prominent role in some of the tightest races for control of Congress.The war has kept gasoline prices way above…
President Trump's newly minted "Super Intelligence" task force faces a daunting mandate: reconcile fiercely divided cabinet factions to forge a tech policy that keeps pace with the blistering AI race.Why it matters: The task force brings the administration's scattered AI work under one roof, but it…
President Trump said Tuesday that top AI executives agreed to voluntary standards aimed at increasing industry oversight.Why it matters: The agreement puts AI companies at the center of policing their own technology as pressure grows for stronger safeguards.Driving the news: Trump and Speaker Mike…
A public interest law group hit OpenAI with a lawsuit Tuesday over its breach of tech company Hugging Face, seeking court-ordered restrictions to prevent future hacks.The big picture: The rogue hacking incident — and reports of tens of thousands of other possible examples of problematic agentic…
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