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Five of the Congress members serve on committees whose work touches SpaceX's federal contracts, defense programs, AI, telecommunications or securities markets.

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Inside the slick new Terminal B at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a headless robotic “dog” is beginning to patrol the floors. As bemused airport travelers watch from close by, the four-wheeled device rolls around baggage claim, where it’s been deployed for a demonstration. Its job: sniffing. Well, sort of. The robot is armed with air quality detectors that the airport team says help monitor the terminal for pollutants.  This robot, along with two others, constitutes a fledgling automated fle

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.The impact of chance and poor logistics on warfare is especi

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is urging Washington to tighten chip export bans and clamp down on Chinese “distillation”, framing it as critical for preserving the US lead in artificial intelligence. In a blog post on Monday, Amodei called a chip ban “the most efficient and direct way” of preventing Beijing from building frontier AI models for military use and domestic surveillance, which he said was his primary concern. The US “should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment..

How Will New Student Visa Rules Impact Athletics? Johanna Alonso Tue, 07/28/2026 - 03:00 AM NCAA policy allows athletes to compete for five seasons, but new federal rules limit international students to just four years in the U.S., cutting off collegiate play for some. Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

arXiv:2607.23888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the United States, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly deployed amid limited federal regulation. With courts become a recurring forum in which AI-related practices are scrutinized, it is important to empirically understand the AI litigation landscape to date. We address this gap through a systematic review of 559 U.S. federal court opinions in which AI plays a role in the parties' contentions, taxonomizing (1) common topics of dispute, (2)

arXiv:2504.02636v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As generative AI (GAI) becomes increasingly embedded in higher education, universities worldwide are developing policies to govern its ethical, pedagogical, and institutional use. However, these policies vary across national and institutional contexts. We undertake a cross-nationalanalysis of GAI guidelines issued by leading universities in the United States, Japan, and China, identifying key policy orientations and proposing a structured frame

Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. The COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the transformation of data from a public health resource into a measure of morality. Disadvantage indices such as the Healthy Places Index and other metrics became central to promoting equity in the pandemic response, ...

A federal judge on Monday halted a prediction market ban in Minnesota days before it was set to roll out. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the Trump administration, Kalshi and Polymarket are “likely to succeed on the merits” in the case arguing that the state ban is pre-empted by federal law. “Specifically, it appears...

ANA is issuing final interpretive rules, general statements of policy, and rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice relating to the following Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs): Economic Advancement Grants for Local Empowerment (EAGLE), AI3 Action Institute--Artificial Intelligence for American Indians (AI3 Action Institute), and the National Center for Native Training and Technical Assistance (NCNTTA).

A policy statement about accuracy should, at minimum, be precise. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems (AI Policy Statement) struggles with that assignment. The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) submitted comments in response to the FTC’s request for input, and this post ... The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check The post The FTC’s AI Accuracy Statement Needs a Fact Check

After OpenAI’s latest model broke containment and went rogue, Congress acted fast and introduced a bipartisan bill calling for the creation of an AI kill switch , which lawmakers said would ensure that the technology could not get the upper hand on humans. As written, the bill would require AI companies to be able to immediately shut down all of their advanced AI programs. The proposal has plenty of vocal proponents and opponents, but neither side appears to be paying much attention to a signifi

In 2020, voters in California’s Alameda County made a remarkable decision. Rather than accept generations of underinvestment in young children, they chose to build something families had never truly had: an early childhood system designed to work. Parents, early educators, childcare providers, labor leaders, business leaders, advocates and community organizations came together around a shared […]

What GAO Found The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) was enacted in 1980, in part to address individuals’ and organizations’ ability to challenge or defend themselves against civil or administrative actions involving the federal government. EAJA authorizes the award of legal fees to parties that prevail against the federal government and meet other eligibility criteria, under certain circumstances. Federal agencies reported paying over $116 million for about 15,000 EAJA awards, on average per y

Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.

This story was originally published on June 29 in The Highlight. To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today. America in the summer of 1976 was not in a good place. The president who presided over the country’s bicentennial, President Gerald Ford, only had the job because the previous president […]

Key Senate Democrats are balking at the latest version of a cryptocurrency regulation bill over a White House-approved ethics provision that they argue falls short, complicating the bill's chances of passing in the narrow window before lawmakers leave town next month. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who leads the Senate Banking digital assets subcommittee, unveiled an...

A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

A U.S. federal case involving GrapheneOS's duress password feature could redefine digital privacy and border phone search laws. The post U.S. man prosecuted over alleged use of phone’s Duress password at border appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The most critical component to actually fielding high-energy laser weapons at scale isn’t the diode pump, or the gain medium, or the beam director. It isn’t even the power source. In reality, it may actually be this tiny fiber-optic converter. On July 23, defense technology company Attalon—formed earlier this year from the spin-off of American laser com

Rising expenditure from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft reflects growing battle over federal policy

arXiv:2607.22006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Buildings account for roughly 34% of global final energy use and 37% of energy- and process-related CO$_2$ emissions. Stranding regulation now being enacted (New York City Local Law 97, the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive recast) presupposes that a building portfolio's carbon intensity can be measured per square metre and compared against a science-based pathway. Whether corporate disclosure is actually fit for that comparison has not,

arXiv:2602.09678v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Since 1887, administrative law has confronted a problem of institutional cognition. Expert agencies are needed to govern technologically complex systems, but expertise makes agency decisions difficult for courts, Congress, and the public to understand and oversee. Administrative law has responded to this "capability-accountability trap" by requiring records, reason-giving, and transparency, drawn together through procedural review. These device

arXiv:2604.26577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered for deployment as the control component of robotic health attendants, yet their safety in this context remains poorly characterized. We introduce a dataset of 270 harmful instructions spanning nine prohibited behavior categories grounded in the American Medical Association Principles of Medical Ethics, and use it to evaluate 72 LLMs in a simulation environment based on the Robotic H

Head Start, the federal program providing free early education for low-income children, has benefited from strong bipartisan support since its 1965 inception, withstanding funding cuts and political turbulence across 11 presidencies. But more recent threats from the second Trump administration have thrust Head Start into the spotlight. Last year, its programs faced disruptions and threats […]

Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workers I recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an AI application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom. The application listens to the conversations between the salesperson and the prospective customer and then automatically creates a quote for the salesperson to review and send. “It allows my salespeople to talk to more

Lawmakers are setting their sights on data centers proposed for military bases, concerned about massive energy and water consumption.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been ...

San Francisco, the United States: The sidewalk outside Majed Zeidan's grocery store in San Francisco's Mission District has stayed filled with flowers, candles, memorials and pictures since his cat was crushed under a Waymo in late October. ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1269#7600)

Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the U.S. and Ukraine plan to build a drone factory in the U.S. as part of a new defense partnership combining American manufacturing with Ukraine’s battlefield-tested drone technology. Speaking in an interview with far-right influencer Laura Zoomer, Zelensky said the agreement would expand on an initial drone cooperation deal...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small, rural […]

Two senior officials discussed the Defense Innovation Unit's plan to equip American forces with the right and best weapons, faster than ever before. The post DIU’s first active-duty military deputy wants to help U.S. forces meet future fights ‘with swagger’ appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference marked a shift from the technology-focused exhibitions of previous editions to a high-profile international gathering of government officials, world leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs. President Xi Jinping delivered an opening speech to articulate China’s role in governing AI. While Silicon Valley, Washington and Brussels debate national security, frontier capabilities and corporate profitability, China is pushing AI to generate social good..

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. Policy. On March 27, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14253 (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History). Pursuant to that order, the Domestic Policy Council recently completed a months-long review […] The post Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution appeared first on The White House .

Despite warnings from US President Trump about penalties on American tech companies, the European Union issued a $1 billion fine on the tech giant over its Google Play search.

Lawsuit Challenges Secret Government Policy that Collects, Stores, and Uses Personal Information About People Observing Immigration Enforcement SAN DIEGO — Privacy rights advocates and three individuals today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful surveillance of those who peacefully observe and document federal immigration enforcement. Plaintiffs allege that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has … Continued

Lawsuit Challenges Secret Government Policy that Collects, Stores, and Uses Personal Information About People Observing Immigration Enforcement SAN DIEGO — Privacy rights advocates and three individuals today filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful surveillance of those who peacefully observe and document federal immigration enforcement. Plaintiffs allege that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has … Continued

President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union for fining Google over allegedly violating its digital competition law, stating the "illegal and highly discriminatory practice" will be probed in a trade investigation. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This...