What To Expect Now That Trump Has Scrapped Biden's Crippling AI Regulations
"New opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and global engagement," says one expert.
"New opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and global engagement," says one expert.
A camera network developed to help find missing cars and persons is now being used for immigration enforcement.
Are human courts the best venue to protect wild animals?
Whether due to tariffs or because they are made in America, the result would be much higher prices.
Criticisms of the president's alleged flip-flopping on gain-of-function research funding miss some key context.
If he's chosen, he ain't Rogan.
On Monday, the court granted an emergency injunction allowing Rep. Laurel Libby to resume voting and speaking after she was censured for a post criticizing trans women in women's sports.
"It's hard to see how completely ripping [the system] apart will be helpful to consumers," warns one economist.
In the name of "restoring freedom of speech," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants to override the editorial judgments of social media platforms.
Forcing the sale of Chrome or banning default agreements wouldn’t foster competition—it would hobble innovation, hurt smaller players, and leave users with worse products.
Although the AI-generated surveillance of the public has been paused, the program continues to send automatic alerts to the Louisiana State Police and federal authorities.
A proposed federal moratorium on state-level AI regulations is a necessary step toward a unified strategy that protects innovation and equity alike.
A bad bill inspired by European tech panic threatened to drive out Tesla, Meta, and Nvidia. Lawmakers in the House improved it—but now the bill is stalled in the Senate.
The Trump administration's plans to slash science funding could end up liberating researchers from the corrupting influence Dwight Eisenhower warned about.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
Algorithmic systems increasingly shape what we know, see, and question. To preserve free inquiry, we need transparency, competition, and a commitment to timeless principles of open debate.
Texas, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are turning to nuclear power to meet data centers' energy demands.
The evolutionary biologist challenges modern dogmas, defends scientific objectivity, and warns against the rise of ideological orthodoxy in society.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
The bill "raises the risk of malware," warns one tech expert.
Local governments love giving sweetheart deals to billion-dollar companies—now data centers instead of football stadiums.
The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
Earlier this year, state Rep. Laurel Libby made a post criticizing trans women in women's sports. Her refusal to apologize has cost Libby her right to speak on the House floor and vote on legislation.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
The New York Times columnist warns that digital life may be eroding the cultural foundations needed to sustain meaning, family, and community.
Plus: Growth forecasts slashed, Pravda time, fentanyl seizures, and more...
Congress just approved a new online censorship scheme under the auspices of thwarting revenge porn and AI-generated "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."
A scam that uses AI to “enroll” in community colleges to pocket student aid has skyrocketed in the Golden State and across the nation.
Export controls on advanced chips and AI models hold back innovation and hurt American businesses.
The penalty amounts to a "multibillion-dollar tariff," a Meta spokesperson says.
Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.
Live by your own rule, Ruhle!
Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Google has lost its second major antitrust case against the Department of Justice, threatening the tech giant's free-to-consumer business model.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The boy and his mother are now suing the school district and its officials to protect students' right to free expression.
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