Tag: Politics

President Donald Trump is set to present Elon Musk with the National Medal of Science at a technology summit in Washington, D.C., according to a report from Forbes. The award, one of the highest honors the United States bestows for scientific and technical achievement, would mark another chapter in the complicated and highly public relationship…

A business owner who backed President Donald Trump has found himself on the wrong end of the very policies he supported, according to a report from The Daily Beast describing the man as stunned by the damage done to his company. The story is a familiar one in outline, even as the details vary from…

A San Antonio tax preparation business owner has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay roughly $3.8 million in restitution, capping a case that underscores how aggressively federal authorities pursue fraud in the tax preparation industry. The sentence, handed down in federal court, follows an investigation into the business owner’s handling of client…

A presidency increasingly defined by the machines For much of the past decade, artificial intelligence was discussed in Washington as a policy problem: something to be regulated, funded, restrained or encouraged. Increasingly, it is something else entirely — an instrument of presidential power itself. That is the thrust of a growing body of reporting and…

The United States’ top intelligence official is set to lead a new federal task force on artificial intelligence, a move that places the country’s AI strategy squarely within the national security establishment. The appointment, reported Sunday, signals that the administration views the rapid advance of artificial intelligence less as a purely economic or regulatory question…

President Donald Trump has announced the members of a new body he is calling the “Super Intelligence Force,” a group tasked with coordinating federal policy on artificial intelligence, NBC News reported Sunday. The announcement marks the latest step by the administration to centralize decision-making on a technology that has rapidly moved from research labs into…

President Donald Trump has announced the appointment of a new artificial intelligence czar, handing the incoming adviser a tight 120-day deadline to deliver a report weighing the benefits and dangers of the fast-moving technology. The move, reported Sunday by the New York Post, places a single official at the center of an administration-wide effort to…

New White House AI Czar Lays Out Priorities and Names Task Force Members The White House’s newly installed artificial intelligence czar has outlined an agenda for the administration’s AI policy and identified the members of a task force assembled to carry it out, according to an exclusive report published by The Wall Street Journal. The…

In Washington, a table is never just a table. That is the premise behind a New York Times piece cataloging who attended President Trump’s luncheon on artificial intelligence — and, just as consequentially in the capital’s unofficial scoring system, who was placed where. The story belongs to a durable genre of political journalism: the guest-list…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation restricting the use of artificial intelligence to make key employment decisions, a measure widely described as a ban on so-called “robo bosses.” The signature marks a reversal for the governor, who had vetoed a similar proposal in an earlier legislative session. The term “robo boss” refers to automated…