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A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court struck a major blow against American consumers on Monday, rewriting constitutional law to bring the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies directly under the President’s thumb and threatening their ability to protect the public from harmful business and data practices.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct: Section 1. Purpose. During the previous administration, crushing environmental regulatory burdens caused the average cost of vehicles to soar. My Administration has therefore […] The post Lowering the Cost of Living by Promoting the Freedom to Fix appeared first on The White House .

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States . The case involved geofence warrants, a form of dragnet surveillance police have used to vacuum up location data from electronic devices of people who happen to be in the vicinity of a crime. EFF had joined the American Civil Liberties

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Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agencies. Open source software has long been a pillar of U.S. technology leadership. In 1969, DARPA connected four university computers — from UCLA, Stanford, UCSB […]

As the relationship between the United States and Canada continues to degrade, it now comes at the expense of each country’s industrial security.Last month, the Pentagon announced the unilateral suspension of the 86-year-old Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense in response to what the White House sees as Ottawa’s failure to present a credible plan to spend 3.5 percent of GDP on defense by 2035. And the opening of the gleaming new bridge between Detroit and Windsor has been long delayed in t

During the Cold War, Europe kept asking whether Washington would risk an American city to save a European one. It was an impolite question, but a useful one, which is why it never quite left the room. It has now packed its bags and moved east. Earlier this year, French President Emmanuel Macron created quite a stir with an important speech on French nuclear weapons policy. Under what he called a new path of dissuasion avancée, or “forward deterrence,” he declared that just as French strategic su

The Navy stopped a maritime drone test early and urgently requested support from the Coast Guard and local harbor patrol agents to help rescue a participating tugboat captain from waters off the California coast last week, multiple sources ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1561#7459)

AI-powered software has allowed gas station operators across California to illegally collude and drive up prices at the pump, according to a federal lawsuit. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Monday, accuses gas station giants inclu ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7460)

Artificial intelligence is costing motorists in California more money at the gas pump, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit claims companies in the state are using data collected by AI to manipulate gas prices. Companies mentioned in th ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7461)

Gasoline prices have soared nationwide since the U.S. launched a war on Iran, but they remain far higher in California than other states, a dollar or more per gallon. And one reason they're not falling, according to a newly filed lawsuit, i ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7462)

The proposed class argues that California's fuel prices are high due to an illegal algorithmic price-fixing scheme orchestrated by an algorithmic pricing company and the largest fuel retailers. AI software used by gas stations across Calif ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7464)

Topline A new lawsuit accuses a slew of gas station owners in California, including Walmart, Speedway and Albertsons, of using an AI tool developed by a company called Kalibrate to artificially inflate prices at the pump---causing prices t ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7465)

California drivers have filed a proposed class action against BP, Marathon, Walmart, and other major gas station operators, alleging they used an artificial intelligence pricing tool to fix pump prices across the state, according to Reuters ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7466)

Gas station operators in California are being accused of colluding to keep fuel prices artificially high. The alleged culprit? A piece of software that uses AI to collect and compare non-public pricing and sales figures from participating s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7467)

Californians pay the highest gas prices in the U.S., and a proposed class action says that the issue has been exacerbated by an AI tool that smartly squeezes customers for the best profits. A newly filed lawsuit at the Sacramento, ​Californ ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7468)

Dive Brief: Several California residents have sued 7-Eleven, Circle K, BP and other retailers for allegedly using an AI-powered fuel pricing algorithm to increase gas prices in the state, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District C ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7469)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --- Gas station operators including bp, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons face a proposed class action lawsuit from California drivers accusing them of using AI to boost fuel prices. Accordin ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7470)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the full article. A group of California consumers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that gas station operators including Walmart, Marathon Petroleum, BP and 7-Eleven use ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7471)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the full article. A group of California motorists has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that several major fuel retailers and an energy pricing software provider used ar ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7473)

Three California residents filed a federal class action lawsuit on June 22, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against Knowledge Support Systems, d/b/a Kalibrate, along with 14 of the largest gas station ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7474)

Gas station operators across California used an AI-powered software system to illegally coordinate pricing and drive up fuel costs, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. Driving the news: The proposed class-action suit accuses major ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7475)

Three California residents are suing a fuel pricing company and several gas station operators, alleging that they use artificial intelligence-based pricing systems to raise gasoline prices in an uncompetitive manner. "Californians are bei ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7476)

California is famous for plenty of things, but few grate quite like its fuel prices, which already rank among the steepest in the nation. As of today, regular runs $5.56, mid-grade $5.788, and premium $5.95. Now a group of residents claims ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7477)

A class-action filed in Sacramento federal court names BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons, alleging their shared use of Kalibrate Fuel Systems' pricing algorithm inflated California gas prices by as much as 22 cents a gallon. C ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7478)

A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered by AI software, to raise prices. The class action lawsuit claims the corporate owners of over 1,700 California gas sta ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7479)

On the heels of filing a landmark federal lawsuit against social media and tech giants, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan today announced the arrest of a New Britain Borough man facing multiple felony charges for producing and possess ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1562#7480)

This is not science fiction. It’s not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones and robots , we have precious little time. In the absence of substantial regulation around when and how domestic law enforcement in the United States can deploy force using drones, the companies that markets technology to law enforcement have been moving. It’s past time concerned people take notice. Cities should not procure weaponized

Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software , the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state. Take a

We have a new standard policy for releasing frontier AI models. It is not good.

Nuclear policy debates are at their best when they force hard questions about risk, deterrence, and military necessity. They are at their worst when disagreement is recast as bad faith. In 2018, as an outgrowth of a rigorous policy review process, the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review identified a need for supplemental low-yield nuclear capabilities to augment the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This was presented as an effort to raise the nuclear threshold of adversaries who may believe they

April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal ‌judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence. In a letter dated April ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7456)

June 22 (Reuters) - Gas station operators ‌including BP (BP.L), opens new tab, Circle K (ATD.TO), opens new tab, Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N), opens new tab, 7-Eleven (3382.T), opens new tab, Walmart (WMT.O), opens new tab and Albertsons (ACI ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7457)

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Executive Order 14212 of February 13, 2025 (Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission) established the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, with an initial […] The post Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience appeared first on The White House .

Seeking transparency and accountability in Paraguay’s use of facial recognition, EFF, the Association of Technology, Education, Development, Research, Communication (TEDIC), and the Centre for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the state for arbitrarily denying access to information about its implementation and use of the technology as a tool for mass surveillance that erodes people’s privacy rights. The case involve

Biotech executives reveal concerns over Chinese biotech, the profitability of AI, and the durability of Trump's drug price moves.

The tools are explicitly intended for generating deepfake nudes of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress and a top American judge, a Transformer investigation found

The Federal Communications Commission wants to require telecommunications providers to collect vast amounts of personal information from every person who wants a phone number in the name of combatting scam and spam calls. This plan will fail to combat the deluge of unwanted calls people in the United States receive every day while giving untrustworthy companies a gold mine of information that would harm everyday consumer’s privacy, access to communications, and ability to speak freely. The requi

Leading the Future spent big to stop the author of the state’s AI safety law from going to Congress. Then came the backlash.