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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is introducing legislation Wednesday that would require an appropriate national security agency to determine whether communications equipment or services tied to several fast-rising Chinese technology companies pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons, with an affirmative finding — or failure to complete the review on time — resulting in placement on the Federal Communications Commission’s covered list.

Google announced a comprehensive transformation of its Search platform at the Google I/O conference on Tuesday, marking what the company calls the biggest change to the search box since its debut over 25 years ago.

WASHINGTON, DC — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr told Breitbart News at a press conference on Wednesday that parents are increasingly concerned about transgender content in children’s television as the agency considers updating television ratings.

Music executive Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records and the man who discovered Taylor Swift, was roundly booed by college graduates when he praised AI during a commencement address at Middle Tennessee State University.

The author of a nonfiction book examining artificial intelligence’s impact on truth has acknowledged that his work contains numerous fabricated or misattributed quotes created by AI.

Microsoft has officially confirmed that faulty third-party drivers have been silently draining laptop batteries and degrading system performance in Windows 11 for years.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced on Monday that it is reassigning 7,000 employees to focus on AI initiatives, just two days before the company plans to lay off roughly 10 percent of its workers.

A coalition of more than 60 MAGA allies on Monday urged the president to test and approve the most powerful AI models before they are released.

A federal jury in Oakland, California, ruled against Elon Musk on Monday in his high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, finding that his claims were filed beyond the statute of limitations. A defiant Musk blamed the loss on a “calendar technicality” and vowed to appeal the decision.

Actress Kristen Stewart has expressed dismay with the studio system and now wants to start making movies for YouTube. 

The Trump White House has a “really good template” for how lawmakers can write the “rules of the road” and create a national policy framework for AI, Build American AI’s executive director Nathan Leamer told Breitbart News during a recent policy event.

A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.

Tesla’s autonomous vehicle division has disclosed that two robotaxi crashes involved remote teleoperators controlling the vehicles from afar, according to newly unredacted safety data submitted to federal regulators.

Public sentiment towards AI has taken a sharp negative turn, with recent polling revealing that a strong majority of Americans believe the technology is advancing too rapidly.

American leadership is needed on artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent China from racing ahead, according to Build American AI executive director Nathan Leamer.

The top Democrats at the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) are hosting an unofficial “hearing” to attack the Trump Administration for settling the Live Nation-Ticketmaster case on Monday. According to Capital Forum, it will feature California AG Rob Bonta and fired Trump antitrust official Roger Alford.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has accused the left-wing Labour Party government of using the Online Safety Act to censor its political opposition after TikTok removed a video criticising mass migration by Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf.

Approximately 50 autonomous Waymo robotaxis have been circling a residential cul-de-sac in northwest Atlanta for hours at a time, raising safety concerns among local families and disrupting daily life in the quiet neighborhood.

Former Google CEO and Democrat mega-donor Eric Schmidt encountered widespread booing from graduates during his commencement address at the University of Arizona on Saturday as he spoke about young people’s “fear” of AI. His speech was already controversial based on rape allegations made by his former girlfriend.

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence, the Vatican said Saturday, as he gears up to release his first encyclical that is expected to emphasize the need for an ethics-based approach to the technology that prioritizes human dignity and peace.

Grammy-winning music producer and singer Jack Antonoff blasted what he called “Godless whores” who create art with artificial intelligence.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday announced an investigation of potential fraud through the E-Rate program in Minnesota.

If you want to talk about media corruption, how about the discovery that a left-wing political organization has embedded 80 “journalists” in the corporate media by paying their full salaries?

American manufacturing is seeing a high-tech resurgence.

The future of Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China remains unclear after President Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping concluded on Friday, despite the last-minute addition of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to the American business delegation.

A Florida news website that presented itself as a legitimate local journalism outlet has been shut down following an investigation that exposed its use of fake AI-generated reporters and stolen content from established media sources. Even the site’s editor-in-chief was generated by AI, according to the investigation.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has reached an agreement with Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, to significantly accelerate the censorship of what England considers “hate speech” and antisemitic content from the platform.

A despairing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed during an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC that none of his predecessors had to ever put up with the same level of criticism he receives from social media users.

The age of AI has forced Princeton University to drop its 133-year-old honor code and supervise exams to ensure student integrity.

A significant amount of jobs are their way to more rural states as the AI boom has prompted the need for more raw materials and electricity, meaning that the industry has expanded from Silicon Valley and become more accessible to working class Americans, according to Build American AI executive director Nathan Leamer.

PayPal has agreed to create a new small business support program and waive processing fees worth $30 million after reaching a settlement with the Justice Department over practices the Trump Administration called “discriminatory” against white-owned small businesses and a form of “illegal DEI.”