Trump to stop in Alaska, other Senate battlegrounds ahead of midterms
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles briefed senators on the president’s campaign travel on Monday evening.
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Trump plans for AI czar languish ahead of CEO meeting
it’s not clear that naming a czar and putting together a task force are on the White House AI priority list right now.
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More Republicans express confidence in the press, poll finds
But fewer Americans than ever believe the US media have a lot of freedom, according to new polling from Gallup.
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Democratic whip plans cross-country midterm sprint
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark will do a whirlwind tour of districts in California, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania.
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Bipartisan AI safety talks stall out in Senate
At this point, it’s unclear whether senators will even be able to introduce a bipartisan bill before the election.
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Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on 'recursive' technology until safeguards exist
The proposal joins a chorus of other measures being put forward in Congress as the body mulls how to regulate AI.
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Elon Musk, SpaceXAI subpoenaed by NYC in AI safety investigation
The New York City Council issued a subpoena to Musk, requiring that he or another representative of SpaceXAI testify in an investigation concerning AI safety.
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The $170 billion lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way
Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, recently laid down a new rule on the contentious question of whether to build data centers in her state: “Unless a community says yes to a data center, we are saying no.” Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, took it a step further, requiring developers…
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Ukraine and South Korea spar over secret POW deal
South Korea demanded an apology from Ukraine for “unilaterally and abruptly” revealing that Kyiv transferred North Korean prisoners-of-war — captured fighting for Russia — to Seoul.
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Democrats prepare to spend in red districts
Democrats’ campaign arm is rolling out $11 million in ads across 35 districts.
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Cruz wants Republicans to campaign on college sports bill
The GOP senator said he and Trump are leaning on the House to return and pass the measure before the midterms.
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Anthropic CEO Amodei set to meet with Trump after missing state dinner
As top tech CEOs rubbed elbows at President Trump's glitzy dinner for Chinese President Xi on Thursday, Anthropic's CEO was noticeably absent.
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Podcast: Whispers in the Pews by Amy D. McDowell
In this episode of From the Square, Amy D. McDowell discusses her new book with Roland Clark, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. Whispers in the Pews:... READ MORE
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble Blog2 min read
Toward Deterring Deceitful Political Advocacy: An Excerpt from Deterring Political Deceit by David Chang
Adopted in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) declared a goal of stabilizing global carbon emissions to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” In... READ MORE
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Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
Capitalism may be driving the AI boom, but the LLMs themselves have different economic and social views than many of the companies that built them. Leading AI models subjected to the Political Compass quiz overwhelmingly landed in the libertarian-left quadrant - even "MechaHitler," aka Grok,…
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100% Unemployment is Inevitable*
As AI rapidly reshapes white-collar work, early data already shows rising unemployment in the most exposed industries, raising the provocative question of whether certain knowledge-worker roles are ultimately destined for 100 percent automation as AI accelerates toward AGI.
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Cybersecurity and LLMs
Large language models are becoming both powerful security tools and high-value targets, creating new attack surfaces where multimodal exploits, jailbreaks, prompt leakage, and AI-assisted cybercrime are evolving faster than current defenses.
Artificial-Intelligence.Blog20 min read
The Great AI Pop: What Will We Call the First AI Bust?
A sharp look at how the first true AI downturn might unfold, what could trigger it, and the stories we will tell about the moment the hype finally cracked.
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