12+ hour, 41+ min ago   (434+ words) Don't let political theater obscure the truth. Support the hard-hitting reporting that cuts through the spin this election season. Become a HuffPost member today. The House speaker shared his take after CNN’s Jake Tapper said AI leaders “seem terrified” about…...

18+ hour, 8+ min ago   (551+ words) Kathleen Culliton is Raw Story's managing editor. She's been covering local and national news for more than a decade for outlets that include the New York Post, Al Jazeera, DNAinfo New York, Bustle, the New York Daily News, WNYC, NY1, City…...

21+ hour, 4+ min ago   (173+ words) GOP economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin told Fox News on Saturday that President Donald Trump’s pledge to give $5,000 to every American adult would be “disastrous” for the U.S. economy. Trump made the pledge at the GOP midterm convention in Texas…...

17+ hour, 45+ min ago   (290+ words) Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week over AI development concerns. Jacob Coxon, a former safety researcher for Anthropic and OpenAI, applauded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls for a slowdown in artificial intelligence development. “I think it's great. It's very…...

21+ hour, 59+ min ago   (128+ words) “President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to dismiss calls from top artificial intelligence leaders to slow down development of AI models, saying that the United States needed to maintain its competitive edge over China,” the Washington Post reports. Said Trump:…...

22+ hour, 5+ min ago   (135+ words) “The mismatch is striking. On one side, warnings of existential risk, maybe a 10 percent chance of the end of civilization. On the other, government paralysis,” the New York Times reports. “The drumbeat about unpredictable, out-of-control artificial intelligence agents increased dramatically…...

18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (464+ words) "Decisive action" is needed "to protect the American people," Jeffries said. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that lawmakers need to take urgent action on the growing threat of artificial intelligence (AI). “We certainly need to begin to act…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (308+ words) “Former President Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be ‘dangerous’ if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively develop political and governing agendas to prioritize the issue in the coming…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (136+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been wondering: What if we…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (146+ words) CNN’s Michael Smerconish pushed back on viewers complaining he was too “nice” to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani this week in an interview focused on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Smerconish responded to critics on Saturday while answering X messages…...