Author: Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner

Instagram and Facebook have provided platforms for child predators, the state of New Mexico alleged in a new lawsuit. The state’s attorney general filed a lawsuit in New Mexico state court late Tuesday alleging that Meta had failed to implement sufficient protections to ensure that children 13 or younger were protected from adults who might…

More than 40 leading technology companies have partnered to create an industry group that will regulate the use of open-source artificial intelligence. IBM announced on Tuesday that it was creating the AI Alliance, which will focus on the responsible development of safety and security tools for open-source AI models. VENEZUELA VOTES TO CLAIM REGION IN…

A leading “misinformation” researcher is accusing her former employer at Harvard University of firing her to please Facebook’s parent company, Meta. Joan Donovan, an assistant professor at the College of Communication at Boston University, argued in a filing with the Education Department and Massachusetts attorney general that Harvard decided to fire her after Meta CEO…

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday during one of his 2024 campaign stops that he would take action against President Joe Biden’s efforts to set guardrails for artificial intelligence to protect free speech. Trump appeared at a political rally on Saturday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, touching on several key talking points. Among them were claims…

Former President Donald Trump is speaking at a rally to voters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in preparation for the upcoming Iowa Republican caucuses. Trump made an earlier appearance in Ankeny at the Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus event, where he re-emphasized his goal to close the borders, touted the support he received from a…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a series of measures allowing ex-convicts and teenagers new voting rights in the 2024 election. Whitmer signed a package of bills on Thursday that provided additional people the ability to sign up to vote. The first will allow eligible individuals to vote in an upcoming election after they…

Former national security adviser John Bolton slammed President Joe Biden’s attempt to extend the truce in the Israel-Hamas war and alleged that it benefits Hamas more than anyone else. Bolton attacked the Biden administration on Saturday over its role in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Biden has partnered with factions of the Israeli government and…

North Korea warned the world that any actions taken against its recently deployed spy satellite could be considered a declaration of war. The country, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, released a statement early Saturday urging the world not to take action against the space satellite it reportedly launched last month after…

Vice President Kamala Harris presented remarks detailing the United States’s vision for how residents in Gaza would be treated after the conflict between Hamas and Israel comes to a close. Harris presented broad U.S. objectives during her visit to the United Nations COP28, an environmentally focused conference, on Saturday. The vice president made a series…

The troubled rollout of robotaxis in San Francisco illustrates the struggles facing efforts to replace human drivers with software. Cruise, a robotaxi startup funded by General Motors that began operating commercially in San Francisco in 2022, has encountered several regulatory barriers while expanding its services to the public. A series of high-profile crashes and software-related…