4+ day, 45+ min ago   (332+ words) A few minutes before Donald Trump got on stage in Dallas Wednesday night, Joe Allen was warning a hard-right crowd across town about immigration. “You look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants,” he said. “They’ve already broken…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (285+ words) An AI safety bill may be introduced by senators from both parties as early as next week. The ScoopCongress isn’t back to Washington yet, but some lawmakers were jolted awake by a round of dire AI warnings from a…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (314+ words) An anti-data center bus tour traversing key midterm states will add another complication for Republican candidates in tight races who are trying to navigate Trump’s support of the AI infrastructure with growing voter opposition — and it’s being spearheaded by a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (536+ words) Congress should ultimately add teeth to President Donald Trump’s voluntary framework for data center developers to shield utility ratepayers from the cost of their power demand, Sen. Katie Britt told Semafor in an interview this week. “I’d love to see…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (149+ words) Information used by AI to make a vaccine can also “create a bioweapon,” one Google DeepMind researcher told the FT. Tech firms are scrambling to reduce the threat of AI-driven bioterrorism, the Financial Times reported AI models are increasingly powerful…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) Nine weeks before the midterms, House Republicans aren’t holding back their criticism of the president’s latest tariff moves. In a closed-door meeting on Wednesday with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Republican Study Committee members were “freewheeling in their expressions,” one…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (134+ words) Congress has already conveyed to the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital that it lacks the legal authority to seek equity stakes in private companies, a person familiar with the process told Semafor. It did so by declining to pass legislative…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (147+ words) Union support in the US is at a modern-day high, with majorities of both political parties expressing positive views about organized labor, according to Gallup polling. Seventy-one percent of American adults approve of unions, matching a 2022 peak; the reading hasn’t…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (92+ words) The president’s remarks that are unlikely to soften mounting public criticism of Big Tech. US President Donald Trump said communities opposed to data centers will end up “backwards and poor,” in remarks that are unlikely to soften mounting public criticism…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (277+ words) Experts see evidence of growing Chinese hacking threat in newly released court documents. The US government said it seized digital infrastructure behind a Chinese hacking operation that targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Senate beginning in 2018, evidence, experts say,…...