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Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

The State of America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis explores challenges and highlights the resulting impacts upon the direct support workforce and the continued ability of people with I/DD to acces...

The president says that his immigration crackdown is behind falling crime rates. The numbers don’t back that up.

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.

The report is the agency's latest effort to chip away at trust in established health care models for transgender people. Critics say it frames transgender identity as illegitimate or even dangerous.

Partisan websites disguised as independent, local news outlets are shaping chatbots’ responses about key races.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

A US judge blocked the Trump administration on Monday from conditioning counterterrorism funds to state and local governments on changes to election administration.

How exactly is AI supposed to kill us all?

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

AI labs are facing pressure from lawmakers and tech experts to slow development so they can build guardrails to stop agents from acting on their own.

“We’ve come a long way since the fall of 2001, but we find ourselves with recent widening gaps in public health readiness and mitigation,” writes Daniel B. Jernigan.

Public disagreement about whether political violence is rising and who is responsible for it stems not from ideology alone but from competing definitions about what should be counted.

The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Justice Department said in June that it would no longer enforce laws that prioritized people with disabilities living and receiving services in their communities, rather than in nursing homes or f...

In the frenzied aftermath of the Hugging Face attack, business is booming for A.I. companies focused on risk management—in other words, making sure an A.I. system ’does what you want it to do‘ and not...

A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.

Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.

The Department of Homeland Security’s focus on mass deportations resulted in a dramatic drop in investigations into illicit fentanyl, according to a federal watchdog report.

What if the doomers and skeptics are both a little bit right?