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US cybersecurity agency releases election infrastructure plan 40 days before midterms
NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November's midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election offic...
4h ago
New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation
NEW YORK (AP) - New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state. The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge f...
4h ago
Autonomous AI hacks raise thorny questions of legal accountability
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has a long history of investigating and prosecuting hackers who break into a private company's network. But what happens when the hackers aren't human? That's the question at the center of a public policy deba...
10h ago
OpenAI's breach of Australian health department website prompts rebuke from Albanese
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he was extremely concerned about OpenAI 's breach of an Australian health department website and that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident. ...
18h ago
Meta bets big on wearable AI, new AI agent as Zuckerberg pushes back against AI doom
Meta is going all in on a consumer-friendly AI agent and pushing forward with AI-powered wearable devices during a moment in the industry when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it is a "wild time to be building." At the company's annual Connect c...
19h ago
US diplomats told to say 'super intelligence' - not 'artificial intelligence' - after Trump's call
NEW YORK (AP) - The State Department is ordering diplomats in its international organizations bureau to use the term "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in all communications following President Donald Trump's attempt to rebrand...
23h ago
Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people - by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. "If mana...
Sep 23, 2026
FBI investigates hackers' claim to have stolen sensitive employee data, compromised jobs website
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI said Wednesday that it was investigating a criminal hacking group's claims that it had stolen "very sensitive data" belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that it had compromised the bureau's jobs website. "The ...
Sep 23, 2026
Prince Harry warns that AI chatbots may be more dangerous than social media for young users
NEW YORK (AP) - Prince Harry warned Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative that artificial intelligence chatbots designed to provide companionship are even more dangerous to young people than social media. "The technology is more persuasive, more...
Sep 23, 2026
Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create Department of AI
Washington (AP) - Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry's...
Sep 23, 2026




