9+ hour, 25+ min ago   (942+ words) The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week. The campaign launch was when Jacob Coxon, a low-level 27-year-old AI…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago   (163+ words) House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for top artificial intelligence leaders to sit down with Congress and the White House and agree on safety legislation — but said the US cannot cede ground to China. The government needs to move quickly…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (667+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a raft of technology bills Thursday while sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence — even though, two years ago, he pulled the plug on California’s strongest attempt to rein in the powerful technology. At a press conference…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (257+ words) Anthropic says scientists used its Claude AI in sensitive biological research that the company feared could have applications in weapons development — including gain-of-function virus work and experiments involving pathogens with pandemic potential. The company said it could not determine the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (401+ words) Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s amazing track record of picking stocks continues. In July, the power couple bought shares of Bloom Energy, a controversial “green” energy company, right after a sharp drop in price, and right before an upbeat earnings report....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (478+ words) Elon Musk is threatening to sue over documentarian Alex Gibney’s new movie about him, saying the film’s insinuation that Musk influenced the 2024 election in President Trump’s favor reeks of defamation. Musk’s high-profile lawyer Alex Spiro blasted Gibney’s film in a…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (380+ words) A nearly 90-year-old painting has generated online buzz and a bizarre conspiracy — that an indigenous man depicted in the artwork is holding a contemporary smartphone. “Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield,” by Italian American muralist Umberto Romano, depicts the…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (542+ words) WASHINGTON — President Trump is spending Labor Day flooding his Truth Social account with AI-generated images about conquering both the Earth and outer space alike. Trump on Monday posted a map of North America, where both Canada and Mexico are annexed…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (644+ words) OpenAI has reportedly hired Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter Jessica Schumer for a top policy job as Silicon Valley increasingly works to shore up ties with Democrats ahead of November’s midterm elections. Jessica Schumer, Amazon’s former top public-policy official…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (412+ words) A federal judge and even the Justice Department are letting Big Tech run roughshod over the digital marketplace, and publishers, creators and consumers will pay the price. In April, Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google’s domination of online advertising — owning…...