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House passes GOP-backed bill targeting data center power costs

House lawmakers on Wednesday easily passed the first major legislative action to address the costs of the AI boom, a bill intended to shield Americans from potential energy costs associated with da...

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Trump threatens to impose ‘serious tariffs’ on Europe if Canada joins EU as associate member

President Donald Trump pulled out one of his favorite words as he threatened retaliation if the European Union were to admit Canada as an associate member.Trump told reporters Wednesday that he mig...

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How talks to clean up California's controversial antisemitism law fell apart

SACRAMENTO, California — Two words sank seven months of negotiations in Sacramento: "factually accurate."The phrase was a major source of controversy in AB 715, the contentious law passed last year...

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GOP’s gas tax holiday push falters in House

House conservatives' push to temporarily suspend the federal gasoline tax to lower prices at the pump ahead of the midterm elections is dead in the water, a member of the House Freedom Caucus confi...

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‘The US can’t lose’: Pentagon plows ahead on AI despite warnings

Pentagon leaders are racing to insert artificial intelligence into nearly every corner of the military, even as lawmakers scramble to figure out guardrails.Defense Department officials insist any s...

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With hopes for crypto legislation dimming, Trump’s regulators step into the fray

The Senate’s failure to move on a watershed cryptocurrency bill has shifted the focus to President Donald Trump’s top Wall Street regulators.Over the past few months, Securities and Exchange Commis...

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Trump has ended TPS for 13 countries. Salvadorans are still waiting for an answer.

The Trump administration’s unusual silence on the future of temporary legal status for people from El Salvador has plunged an immigrant community of around 200,000 people into limbo, leaving them u...

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What AI urgency? Industry and leaders split on how to handle advanced tech’s threats

The seeming unanimity among artificial intelligence industry powerhouses about addressing AI’s potential threats to humanity is already splintering.Four days after OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk l...

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LinkedIn co-founder Hoffman casts doubt on Harris 2028 prospects

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is questioning former Vice President Kamala Harris’ chances of winning the 2028 presidential election if she were to run.“I think it would be a very challenging pat...

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'AI has been marketed horribly to the American people,' LinkedIn co-founder says

LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman admitted on Wednesday that artificial intelligence has been mismarketed to Americans, even as he sees a narrow lane for a tech optimist to...

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Democrat targets Trump’s push for publicly-sited AI data centers

Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s push to expand AI data centers onto federal lands by proposing the projects must undergo extensive environmental review...

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Hugging Face CEO: Existing cyber laws likely sufficient to govern advanced AI

Hugging Face CEO and cofounder Clem Delangue, whose company was the victim of an artificial intelligence-led cyberattack, said current U.S. laws on liability for cyberattacks are enough to hold ad...

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Anthropic policy chief says winning AI race key for safety

Anthropic’s policy chief Sarah Heck said Wednesday that the U.S. can’t make artificial intelligence safer if it falls behind China in the global tech race."The United States needs to stay in the l...

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Crypto tried to buy Congress. It failed.

The cryptocurrency industry is facing a reckoning on Capitol Hill — and it could reverberate far beyond crypto.Crypto companies have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into political spending a...

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Trump administration paid federal workers $6.7B to quit, GAO audit says

Federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave last year, a sixfold increase from 2023 driven largely by the Trump administration’s plan to shrink the federal workforce, according...

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Fed hikes rates and signals more to come this year, defying Trump

The Federal Reserve unanimously voted Wednesday to raise interest rates for the first time in three years and signaled it might hike again this year, a move that will test the delicate relationship...

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Sacks: Trump cutting through panic over AI

Former Trump AI czar David Sacks blamed public alarm around risks that artificial intelligence may post to human existence on a public fear mongering campaign.He praised Donald Trump’s approach to...

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Why the Senate might not solve Jon Husted's data center problem

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted is drowning in political attacks centered on his past support for data centers. A potential life preserver could end up just out of reach.The House is expected to vote Wednesda...

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Poll: Americans say there’s a serious risk of AI destroying humanity

A majority of Americans think artificial intelligence could someday destroy humanity.The stunning new finding from The POLITICO Poll underscores the depth of people’s anxieties about the rapidly de...

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Trade war is a selling point at Carney’s investment show

TORONTO — Behind closed doors at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, some of the world’s biggest investors see an upside to the country’s trade war with the United States.Interna...

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We Need a Mayor for President

A view of the White House on March 11, 2022. —Prasit photo—Getty ImagesThe 2028 presidential race is already taking shape, and there’s a Zohran Mamdani-shaped hole in it. New York City’s relentless...

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