J.B. Branch

OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman speaks with reporters as he departs a meeting with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2026. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Demands Urgent Congressional Oversight

Vineet John Samuel

The X logo is being displayed on a mobile phone with the European Commission logo seen in the background, in this photo illustration. Taken in Brussels, Belgium, on 8 December 2025. (Jonathan Raa / Sipa USA) (Sipa via AP Images)

X's Data Access Remedies Are a Win for Researchers Only If They Last

JJ Jasser

People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. (FeatureChina via AP Images)

‘Open-Washing’ Is Everywhere in AI. Four Criteria Cut Through It

Tyler Whitmer

Ben Rashkovich

A blurred black-and-white portrait of a man on the left, with the xAI company logo displayed on a screen to the right against a black background.

What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know

Mallory Knodel

Evan Friedman

Brad Friedman

Multiple floating video screens displaying various images—including cityscapes, technology graphics, and nature scenes—arranged in a layered, three-dimensional pattern against a blurred, dark background of digital displays.

The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol

Max Weber

Social media puppeteering the public through paid political influence — a hand emerging from a smartphone controls a wooden marionette by red strings.

How to Close the Federal Election Commission’s Dark Money Loophole

Tayrine dos Santos Dias

Leandro Ucciferri

Spain fans gather for a rally on the eve of the World Cup final soccer match in New York's Times Square, Saturday, July 18, 2026 (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance

Marie Erikson

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Chatbot Voting Advice Could Help and Harm Voters. Let’s Regulate Accordingly.

Christopher Steven Marcum

Abigail Haddad

OMB Director Russell Vought is seen after testifying during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing on oversight of the Office of Management and Budget, in Rayburn building on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Rachel A. George

Synthetic or slop? by Marcin Wilkowski / Better Images of AI / CC by 4.0

Synthetic or slop? by Marcin Wilkowski / 

The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity

Jason Tucker

Virginia Dignum

Rachele Carli

Petter Ericson

Tatjana Titareva

The United Nations headquarters in New York. Shutterstock

The United Nations headquarters in New York. 

The UN Scientific Panel on AI's Preliminary Report Does Not Establish Its Independence

Kenji Yoshino

Ronaldo Lemos

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (not pictured) and Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger unveil Claude 4 during the Code with Claude conference, announcing both Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 AI models to developers and industry leaders on Thursday, May 22, 2025 in San Francisco. (Don Feria/AP Content Services for Anthropic)

What AI Companies Can Learn from the Oversight Board

Rebecca Finlay

Members of the UN Scientific Panel on AI. Source

Members of the UN Scientific Panel on AI. 

AI Will Affect Everyone's Future. Its Governance Can't Belong to a Few.

Justin Hendrix

People hold signs in opposition of xAI's use of gas turbines at their facility during a meeting of the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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