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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said that a sect of Republicans is now “looking at other places” to potentially pass a federal measure that would block states from passing AI laws for a decade. Other Republicans opposed including the AI preemption in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). For months, President Trump has pressured the Republican-led Congress to block state AI laws that the president claims could bog down innovation as AI firms waste time and resources complying with a patchwork of state laws.

What exactly are the rules around data scraping? It turns out that there aren’t many—in part because government regulators haven’t really focused on this increasingly important issue. Internet data is now becoming a crucial resource in the AI boom, and there are ongoing clashes between major tech platforms that are trying to both hoard and capitalize on that data.

House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) and Subcommittee Chairman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL-12) announced a Dec 3 hearing titled Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online. The hearing will focus on the following bills:

A new X feature revealed that several pro-Trump accounts with large followings are not US-based, despite content and some bios suggesting otherwise. On X account profiles, clicking on an account’s date of creation reveals the country or region where the account is based.

America is in a race for global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), an important frontier of scientific discovery and economic growth. In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.

It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI in 2025. One of the first signs came in March. Sam Altman, the chief executive, and other company leaders got an influx of puzzling emails from people who were having incredible conversations with ChatGPT. These people said the company’s A.I. chatbot understood them as no person ever had and was shedding light on mysteries of the universe. Mr.

Even as debates continue about the role of social media in our country, including on censorship and its impact on youth, Americans use a range of online platforms, and many do so daily. YouTube and Facebook remain the most widely used online platforms. The vast majority of U.S. adults (84%) say they ever use YouTube. Most Americans (71%) also report using Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms directors agreed to a $190 million settlement of claims they failed to rectify repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy and improperly engineered an accord to shield the billionaire chief executive officer from personal liability. The amount of the settlement had been sealed since a trial was halted in July.

In a draft Executive Order, President Donald Trump claims Constitutional power to promote American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by:

The European Commission is putting forward a package of measures to simplify the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. The package includes changes to core elements of the GDPR, including a reduction in cookie banners and pop-ups. The package also includes changes to the 2024 AI Act.