Category: Politics

The Department of Homeland Security has directed federal civilian agencies to remove technology from the Chinese artificial-intelligence developer DeepSeek from their information-technology systems, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The directive marks one of the most sweeping federal actions yet against a specific foreign AI company, and it extends a pattern of…

A question that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago Myanmar has spent much of the past decade as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Since the military seized power in a coup, the country has been gripped by civil conflict, economic collapse and a thicket of Western sanctions targeting the…

Two very different stories anchor Thursday’s briefing NBC News framed its Oct. 15 rundown around two threads that, on the surface, have little in common: a federal investigation involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat who has been one of the most closely scrutinized members of Congress since her 2018 election, and a conversation with…

The U.S. Senate appears ready to expand the roster of artificial intelligence tools available to its staff, with Anthropic’s chatbot Claude poised to join the list, according to a report from Politico. The move would mark another step in a steady, if cautious, embrace of generative AI on Capitol Hill, where thousands of aides handle…

San Diego’s City Council Rules Committee has advanced a pair of proposals aimed at tightening the city’s campaign finance rules and shining more light on so-called “dark money” — political spending by groups that are not required to publicly identify their donors. The committee’s action moves the packages forward in the city’s legislative process. Measures…

President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia has agreed to deliver millions of dollars’ worth of diesel fuel, describing the arrangement as the outcome of what he called a “highly successful discussion.” The announcement, reported by Fox Business, offered few immediate details about the scope, timing or destination of the fuel shipments, or about which…

President Donald Trump has awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and a group of other prominent technology figures, according to NBC News, in a ceremony that is already drawing both applause and criticism from across the scientific community. The National Medal of Science is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows for…

President Donald Trump has waded into the artificial intelligence naming debate with characteristic bluntness, declaring that anyone who declines to refer to AI as “super intelligence” is “THE ENEMY,” according to a report published Thursday by Politico. The remark, rendered in the all-caps style familiar to followers of the president’s social media posts, lands at…

The White House published a short message on Thursday declaring that “President Trump will always ensure America is at the forefront of science and technology,” a line that distills one of the administration’s most frequently repeated themes into a single sentence. The statement, posted on the administration’s official website, offers no policy specifics on its…

A presidential appearance before the research and innovation community President Donald Trump delivered remarks at a science and technology summit in Washington, D.C., in an address carried by C-SPAN, placing the administration’s innovation agenda before an audience of researchers, industry executives and policymakers. The appearance is the kind of set-piece event that presidents have long…