A week after Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to pause AI data center construction indefinitely, Maine is poised to institute the first statewide ban.
She spent nearly six months in jail.
Plus: the Facebook verdicts, porn star chatbots, facial recognition gone awry, drag queen regulation, and more…
Judge Rita Lin's preliminary injunction confirms what government officials had implicitly acknowledged: The supply chain risk designation was punishment, not policy.
This heavy-handed legislation would harm Americans, not protect them.
When water rights are secure and transferable, new demands can be met without harming existing users.
The National AI Policy Framework is a return to the administration's pro-AI position.
Anthropic sues the federal government—and kicks off a debate about free speech for artificial intelligence systems.
Trump administration officials openly seek to punish the AI company for its corporate philosophy.
After users prompted Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to generate "vulgar" posts, British officials warned X it could face penalties.
Plus: Kristi Noem is fired as DHS secretary, a listener asks about libertarian drug use, and new polling reveals Americans distrust AI and each other.
Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmental downsides.
And a committee in the state Senate just unanimously approved it.
Plus: Congress is reluctant to assert its war powers, the Pentagon brands Anthropic a national security threat, and a listener asks whether regime change is ever morally defensible.
Plus: AI for mass surveillance, Alaskan lawsuit to decriminalize prostitution, "enhanced" British regulation of streaming services, and more…
OpenAI has entered a contract with the Defense Department allowing all lawful use of ChatGPT after Anthropic refused to remove its restrictions on domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss why AI data centers spark joy, their favorite Black Mirror episodes, and libertarian skepticism of the Epstein files release.
Dario Amodei penned a public letter explaining the danger of the Defense Department's request to remove certain constraints from Claude, and refusing them outright.
Plus: AI layoffs, Paramount wins Warner Bros., and the Trump-Mamdani bromance.
Plus: Minnesota Medicaid funds, AI vs. jobs, Taylor Lorenz's libertarian moment, and more...
Pete Hegseth has threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to come around.
The plan recognizes that public opinion is what's holding data centers back the most.
Plus: The U.S. could be going to war with Iran, the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, and why AI surveillance is worrying civil libertarians
Plus: U.S. Olympic hockey team wins the gold medal and Mexico kills cartel boss "El Mencho."
When former LSD kingpin Seth Ferranti was pulled over in Nebraska, police claimed a traffic violation.
Delphi-2M was trained on the world's most comprehensive biomedical database with health information from over 400,000 people.
The ruling makes it less likely for copyright suits involving generative AI to be dismissed, discouraging use of the technology with the specter of costly legal fees.
Is this small modular nuclear power’s moment?
Plus: a partial shutdown over ICE funding, Kevin Warsh to lead the Fed, and Moltbook’s AI society
Viral posts about devious chatbots on a robot Reddit haven't held up under scrutiny.
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is an extreme proposal to effectively outlaw promising AI progress.
A Soho Forum debate on artificial intelligence's potential to deliver widespread societal benefits
AI slop and enshittification are making the public social commons unbearable. The alternative pathways are more accessible than you think.
Should it matter whether a song was made by a human or a machine?
The order imposes duties on China-bound AI chips if chipmakers don't invest in American semiconductor fabrication.
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
The AI boom is showing the limits of our regulated monopoly model for generating electricity.
The DATA Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton, would exempt electrical utilities from federal regulation if they don't touch the electrical grid.
Don't blame AI for your high electricity bill. Blame the politicians who are trying to take AI away.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s latest is an anti-tech omnibus, combining years' worth of dangerous policy ideas into one big, bad bill.
Rising electricity prices are being pinned on data centers, but demand isn’t what makes power expensive.
It's the humans who develop and use AI for malicious ends, not the tech itself, who should worry us.
The union isn't pro-growth or pro-consumer. It's a lobby for workers.
The socialist senator wants a moratorium on new data centers to slow the AI and robotics industries down.
Katherine Dee examines how living online reshapes attention and behavior and makes the case for a more grounded, realistic way of using digital tools.
When the perceived emotional harm from new development becomes a justification for state intervention, the law gets really arbitrary really quickly.
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