YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

How the “corruption of inaction” in both parties is helping AI oligarchs avoid accountability and endanger the world.

House speaker saved Defense secretary from impeachment by cutting short his unlawful Congress

In the nation’s 250th year, we turn an eye to Americans who challenged power, took risks, and made our country greater.

New rules could grant ‘small business’ benefits to companies with up to $5 billion in assets. Actual small businesses may have no choice but to sell.

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.

Across several states, a quiet chemical industry campaign is making it harder to hold polluters accountable.

Historian Jeremy Varon on building counternarratives and what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

The centrist crusade against a rising left is just beginning. It’s also hypocritical, out of touch and doomed to fail.

An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers.

The Republican lawmaker cited incidents like the US’s elementary school massacre in Minab, Iran, early in the war.

Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His case for institutional renewal should be taken seriously, but it needs a f...

A group of unapologetic economic populists are defying the conventional wisdom that only moderates can succeed in swing seats.

How corporate pressure led legislators to kill a bill that would curtail surveillance pricing

Why panic when you could just use existing laws?

The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

It took work and toxic stories to make us forget how we all first responded to 9/11

The Fucking News for Sept. 9, 2026

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

Executives at the most profitable companies have enriched themselves while staying silent about ICE attacks on their employees and the shredding of our social safety net.