While the $17.6 billion settlement Meta (Facebook) agreed to last week with 47 states and several U.S. territories might seem like a huge admission that the company’s addictive social media algorithms have been harming children, a close look at the details shows a lot left on the table.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on artificial intelligence (AI) and data center companies to improve their messaging in comments at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, saying they, “Have done a horrendous job of explaining themselves to the American people.”
The DOJ filed a brief siding with OpenAI in its copyright lawsuit with the New York Times, arguing that training AI systems on copyrighted material counts as fair use. The DOJ’s brief does not completely align with the Trump Administration’s AI framework released earlier this year.
A $100 billion data center complex planned to be built near the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia has effectively been canceled after residents spent five years fighting it in courtrooms, newspapers and town halls.
New York City’s Department of Education is announcing a new policy that bans generative AI tools for students from early childhood through eighth grade, along with new limits on classroom device use.
A new poll from the Beacon Center in Tennessee finds Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is well on her way to the Governor’s Mansion in two months. Blackburn leads Democrat Jerri Green in the race to succeed two-term Gov. Bill Lee, with a 55 percent to 34 percent margin among likely voters in the Volunteer State.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that he sides with President Doanld Trump’s stance on data centers over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) and Shapiro is “actually scared by the polls.” Host Kasie Hunt
Elon Musk addressed a virtual session of the G20 yesterday, laying out predictions on AI, humanoid robots and regulation. According to Musk, within 10 years, 1 billion humanoid robots will outproduce all of humanity.
Global spending on data centers could reach $31.6 trillion by 2050 according to a baseline forecast, and as much as $50 trillion if AI adoption accelerates faster than expected, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report. Even the baseline forecast is about the same size as the entire U.S. economy.
The Pentagon has rolled out custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok to millions of Defense Department personnel. The Department of War has now replaced Anthropic’s Claude with access to multiple different AI platforms.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during a Breitbart News Fight Club Roundtable that he believes China is helping fund opposition to artificial intelligence data centers, while arguing that the country should consider the effects on the electrical grid and water resources without putting itself at a disadvantage in the competition over AI.
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has a prominent role in director Doug Liman’s Bitcoin, a feature film in which all the actors, including Oscar winner Casey Affleck, did all their work on a bare-bones stage because AI will create the sets and lighting.
Build American AI announced Monday it will spend millions of dollars on advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin to shape state and local policies on data center construction.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has announced it is ending developer access to its models on Cursor, the popular coding assistant that Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired earlier this month. The AI rivals have been locked in a bitter feud for a decade.
A federal appeals court says it had no choice but to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child pornography because of a 2002 Supreme Court ruling, even as judges warned that modern technology has blurred the legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said none of the social media platforms have committed to removing “inaccurate” information “about voting or candidates,” calling that “very scary.”
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Florida gubernatorial nominee Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said that there are rules needed for AI, “states are probably going to step up and do regulations faster than the
National security experts are sounding the alarm after X said it uncovered Chinese bots targeting U.S. debates over AI data centers and technology policy.
More than 100 companies, spanning AI developers, cybersecurity firms, financial institutions and internet infrastructure providers, have joined Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in signing an open letter urging governments and industry to join forces against a coming wave of AI-driven cyberattacks. The first self-directed AI hacking incidents involved models produced by companies that signed the letter.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Pentagon acted illegally when it labeled AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk, finding the designation violated the First Amendment.
Nvidia shares climbed more than nine percent in morning trading, breaking a four-quarter streak in which the AI chip giant’s stock fell the day after earnings despite beating Wall Street’s estimates.
President Donald Trump has done a “phenomenal job” at working to increase domestic production of semiconductor chips as the technology race against China heats up, Substrate founder and CEO James Proud told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.
Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said during a Breitbart News policy event that the Department of War has dramatically expanded access to artificial intelligence across the department as part of its AI acceleration strategy, with roughly 1.7 million people now using the technology for enterprise, intelligence, and warfighting purposes.
Innovation Council Action founder Taylor Budowich emphasized listening to communities and addressing concerns over electricity and water surrounding artificial intelligence and data-center development during a Breitbart News policy event, while arguing that good policy can help address the political challenges surrounding the issues.
WASHINGTON—Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael said Tuesday at Breitbart News’s latest policy event that whoever wins the AI Race, the United States or China, will dominate economically and militarily.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and leftist billionaire who has spent years predicting that AI would free people from drudgery and speed cures for disease and climate change, published an essay Wednesday warning that without urgent government intervention, AI could cause more harm than good.
Chris Malone, OpenAI’s head of data centers, has suddenly left Sam Altman’s AI startup, joining a mass exodus of executives from the ChatGPT developer.
American AI dominance is a “question of winning or losing” on a global stage against China, Phillip Buckendorf, CEO and founder of Air Space Intelligence (ASI), said during a discussion at the Breitbart News policy event, “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace.”
Innovation Council Action (ICA) Founder Taylor Budowich pointed out during a Breitbart News event on Tuesday that AI data centers “should be feeding our communities” instead of taking away from communities and draining them.
Locals have every right to question data centers, Breitbart News social media director and “Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI” author Wynton Hall said.
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton released an AI data center plan Monday, calling for federal legislation to block Chinese technology in the facilities and criminal liability for centers that power AI chatbots harming children.
Porsche has signed a five-year AI partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services company, in a deal valued at almost $1.5 billion.
Breitbart News, in coordination with Innovation Council Action, holds a policy event discussing the rise of artificial intelligence titled “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace” on Tuesday, August 25.
Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico is campaigning on tougher restrictions for data centers and attacking Republican opponent Ken Paxton over contributions connected to the industry, despite previously voting for a 20-year tax incentive for large data centers and benefiting from millions of dollars in political support from donors tied to the data-center and AI industries.
Data centers should not be raising water or electricity rates on consumers, North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Whatley agreed during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against critics of his company’s AI-powered surveillance cameras in a recent interview with Fox News, arguing that privacy and safety concerns must be weighed together rather than against each other.
More than a dozen AI data centers near O’Hare International Airport in suburban Chicago are receiving at least $100 million in local property tax breaks this year, pushing more of the tax burden onto Cook County homeowners.
OpenAI and Apple has introduced a feature that lets ChatGPT read, write and send iMessages on Mac computers, a capability that raises privacy concerns for Apple users.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon discussed the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the K-12 classroom.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said AI data centers have “dug their own grave” by not working in collaboration with local governments. Abbott said, “What we’ve been focused on is responding to concerns that have been raised
