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A robot dog from Boston Dynamics

American robot firms, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics, warn that without a national strategy ‘the U.S. will not only lose the robotics race but also the AI race’

By Didi Tang, Matt O'Brien, and others

FILE – Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Federal judge denies Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI for-profit conversion—but she’d be happy to hold a trial

By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others

Ross Gerber puts his hand to his face while on a panel

Investment firm CEO who wrote down his stake in X to zero says he expects Elon Musk to fail in Washington: ‘The federal government is going to eat him up and spit him out’

By Matt O'Brien, Bernard Condon, and others

Sam Altman stands at the presidential podium with Trump off to the side

OpenAI is combing through over a dozen U.S. states for ideal spots to establish ‘somewhere between 5 to 10’ Stargate AI data centers

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

Elon Musk hunches over while walking

Elon Musk says he will be irreparably harmed if OpenAI isn’t stopped. The federal judge overseeing his lawsuit called it a ‘stretch’

By Barbara Ortutay, Matt O'Brien, and others

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump signs executive order to cull Biden AI policies and develop a version ‘free from ideological bias’

By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others

FILE – Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump attend a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Elon Musk’s own businesses sit front and center as he says he and Trump have a ‘mandate to delete’ regulations with DOGE

By Matt O'Brien, Tom Krisher, and others

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shake hands

VCs backing Kamala Harris are ‘trying to buy the right type of risk’

By Sarah Parvini, Matt O'Brien, and others

cop gestures as he talks

Cops are using AI to write reports, and it’s changing how they respond to crimes

By Sean Murphy, Matt O'Brien, and others

Close-up of phone screen displaying Anthropic Claude

Anthropic accused of seeking to profit from ‘strip-mining the human expression and ingenuity’ behind authors’ work

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

Sad teen crying after read phone message

Boys are taking images of female classmates and using AI to deepfake nude photos. A landmark lawsuit could stop it.

By Matt O'Brien, Haleluya Hadero, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 01: Jacob Helberg, Advisor to Palantir CEO introduces a video message from 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump at The Hill & Valley Forum on AI Security at U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on May 01, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Jacob Helberg)

Trump camp says he would repeal Biden’s ‘dangerous’ AI order that ‘hinders’ innovation

By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (R) looks on as President Joe Biden signs a new executive order guiding his administration’s approach to artificial intelligence during an event in the East Room of the White House on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies and “both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias,” creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House says there’s no need to restrict ‘open source’ AI—for now at least

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) speaks with reporters in the Senate subway at the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Tech’s war for AI talent is creating a ‘massive consolidation’ problem, lawmakers say

By Matt O'Brien, Sarah Parvini, and others

Nick Gage gestures as he is speaking.

This 84-year-old quit an elite job and went $160K into debt to launch his career. Now he’s suing ChatGPT to protect writers like him from ‘highway robbery’

By The Associated Press and Matt O'Brien