Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a permanent ban on the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence, citing a series of recent hackings involving "rogue" models. The bicameral duo announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would institute the permanent ban, along with temporarily pausing...

Tech mogul Elon Musk’s super PAC has spent around $800,000 in top House and Senate races this cycle, according to the latest filings. America PAC spent the most in Texas, doling out roughly $248,000 as Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton fights for the Senate in a toss-up contest against Democrat James Talarico. The group...

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) on Wednesday praised China's use of artificial intelligence in classrooms. “I think in this case, I think Beijing actually has it right. As long as AI is not used to supplant your ability to learn, in other words, you have to learn the concepts, etc., etc.,” Gimenez told NewsNation’s Blake Burman...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Wednesday unveiled a one-year moratorium on AI use in public school classrooms through eighth grade, days before students return to school in the Big Apple. The ban on generative AI applies to classrooms starting with care and learning for 2-year-olds and extends to the final year of...

The technology giant Nvidia will acquire the open-source platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion as part of the company's push for open artificial intelligence systems. In an announcement Thursday, Nvidia said it will pay $12.93 billion for Hugging Face's platform, which hosts more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets used by hundreds of...

The moon base, Isaacman said, will help NASA learn how to live away from Earth, and possibly later to Mars and other planets.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined TikTok on Wednesday and posted a video commemorating his longtime family vacuum, which he had named Beth and had built a substantial social media following. “Only feels appropriate to pay homage to Beth,” Grassley wrote in the video’s caption. The video displayed a series of pictures of the vacuum throughout...

President Trump and the AI industry are going on the offensive, attempting to bolster support for data centers as they contend with a groundswell of public opposition that has swept across party lines. Trump has not shied away from embracing the controversial server warehouses behind the AI boom, but he appeared to take a no-holds-barred approach Monday as he called for the U.S. to “let Data Reign” and accused the opposition of wanting...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed Wednesday that data centers “don’t use water” despite the facilities’ significant water usage raising concerns for communities that may host them. In an interview with CNBC, Lutnick said, “One of my favorite things is when people talk about data centers using water. The No. 1 product in America that uses...

New Jersey asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to weigh in on a growing legal battle between prediction markets and states over who has the authority to regulate the platforms. It marks the first time that the dispute, which has resulted in conflicting decisions at the appellate level, has been raised to the justices. “Companies...