Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently argued that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down for safety reasons, while also urging tighter restrictions on U.S. chips and technology to prevent China from pulling ahead. Meanwhile, OpenAI is explicitly asking the U.S. federal government to impose mandatory national safety rules on frontier AI, and Anthropic’s policy […]
Roy Cooper’s greatest advantage as he runs for Senate may also be the strongest argument against him — North Carolinians already know him and his record. Cooper has held elected office since Ronald Reagan was president, starting with his election to the North Carolina state House in 1986. In the time since, he served in […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill on Sept. 9 that tells you everything about how entrenched interests behave when they start losing an argument. They don’t get better at making their case. They get a lawyer, a subpoena, and a fine schedule. The new law makes it illegal to “falsely impersonate” a union or […]
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has achieved a rare feat in today’s polarized political climate: He has united Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, business leaders, Hollywood unions, theater owners, and a growing number of Republican attorneys general. They are all pushing back […]
The Senate on Tuesday fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the latest version of the CLARITY Act. The bill now returns to negotiations rather than moving forward on the Senate floor. That is a delay, not a defeat, and it hands the Senate something it did not have last week: time to […]
Reports of progress in trade talks between the United States and Mexico this week should come as welcome news to millions of American autoworkers who have been holding their breath since negotiations with Canada collapsed last month. On Monday, President Donald Trump said an agreement with Mexico was close and raised the prospect of eliminating […]
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking ICE from carrying out warrantless immigration arrests unless the target is likely to escape before a warrant is obtained.
The Trump admin's $9,000 stay-at-home parent proposal sparks a fierce conservative divide, with some critics calling it socialism and a slippery slope.