Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained

An EO requiring pre-deployment review of frontier AI models would likely increase the workload at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

The president seems to be searching for a silver bullet to end the war. There might not be one.

A new level of global disorder will face the American and Chinese presidents at their summit. Like Mao and Nixon, they face a common threat.

Artificial intelligence has become a national security concern. That has federal officials rethinking how lightly it should regulate the technology.

The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.

The move follows the Trump administration’s feud with Anthropic.

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