Artificial intelligence
Pentagon awards up to $200 million to AI companies with ideologically biased models
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office of the Defense Department has announced it will award Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI contracts worth up to $200 million each "to develop agentic AI workflows…
Maybe students who use AI to cheat shouldn’t be in college
AI cheating is endemic in high schools and colleges. Stories proliferate showing just how many students unashamedly use AI programs like ChatGPT and Gemini to do their academic work for them, whether that's completing…
OpenAI and Perplexity’s new browsers make DOJ’s Google monopoly claim look foolish
The private sector is showing the flimsiness of the Justice Department's argument that Google has a monopoly on the search engine market. On July 9, Perplexity AI launched Comet, a web browser that promises a browsing…
Missouri investigating AI companies for failing to spread pro-Trump propaganda
"Missourians deserve the truth, not AI-generated propaganda masquerading as fact," said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. That's why he's investigating prominent artificial intelligence companies…
The ‘big beautiful bill’ funds an expensive immigration crackdown
President Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on Friday. The sweeping legislation includes boosts to military funding, more taxpayer financing of state-sponsored events, and massive…
Senate overwhelmingly rejects 10-year ban on states regulating AI in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Tue Jul 1, 2025 - 3:52 pm EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Today the Senate delivered a decisive victory to those who stand for the rights of states to regulate artificial intelligence. In an overnight session, the…
AI moratorium removed from ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in 99-1 Senate vote
The Senate removed the AI moratorium provision from the reconciliation bill in a 99–1 vote early Tuesday morning. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D–Wash.) co-sponsored the amendment to eliminate the…
The coming techlash could kill AI innovation before it helps anyone
The residents of New Braunfels, Texas, didn't volunteer to help accelerate AI development. Their once quiet corner of the state now buzzes with construction crews building power plants to sustain data centers—industrial…
Federal judge recognizes the right to train AI on copyrighted works
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic did not violate the Copyright Act by training its large language model (LLM) on copyrighted books so long as…
Heavy-handed legislation targets AI-generated replicas of voices and images
Artificial intelligence has a lot of people either excited or worried. In the latter camp are creative professionals who fear that technology might replace their images, voices, and talents with exact replicas that show up…
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