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The US DHS says it will “revolutionize” its FOIA process by using AI to handle certain types of requests and recommend what information should be redacted (www.washingtonpost.com)
6 days ago AI

Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (www.washingtonpost.com)
8 days ago Russia AI

Billionaire-backed AI safety activists have expanded their Capitol Hill lobbying in the past year, with groups like ControlAI conducting hundreds of meetings (www.washingtonpost.com)
14 days ago AI

Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-9-2 U.S. AI chatbot

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-27 AI

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-17 AI

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16 AI

A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16

Flock says it will now require US law enforcement to label every license plate search with a criminal case number, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-14

Flock says it will now require US law enforcement to attach a criminal case number to license plate searches, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-13

An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-3

US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-23 Amazon

Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-21 China Ban

A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-14 Trump China

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-10 AI Xbox

An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-24 AI chatbot

Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-16 Trump China

The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-4 China

Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-29 China AI

A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-22 Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

Gallup: 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction, citing water and electricity issues, with opposition higher among Democrats than Republicans (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-14 U.S. Democrat Republican

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-12 AI

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-28

More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-28 Google AI

Sources: the WH pushed out the head of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, after just four days on the job (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-25 AI

Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-22 China Startup AI

A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from “fanatical” donors since early 2025 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-21 Far-right

Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-4-15 Tax Virginia

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