Crypto bill falls short in early hurdle on Senate floor 

President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.  Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla, will receive this high honor at the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit. Three other tech leaders...

Mathematicians have lashed out after the AI giant released hundreds of new findings.

Dr Adam Lee has a memorable way of explaining his job. As a cardiac electrophysiologist, he likes to think of himself as an “electrician of the heart”.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, unveiled a framework Wednesday for regulating artificial intelligence amid growing pressure on lawmakers to address the technology's risks. Cantwell laid out a set of principles for how Congress and the executive branch should approach AI, arguing that to "manage risks...

Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday. “Some very tough political choices stare us in...

Most U.S. voters want more safeguards on artificial intelligence and think the federal government has fallen short in confronting the powerful technology’s risks, according to a new poll. In a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Wednesday, 57 percent of respondents said they believe the Trump administration is not taking the risks posed by AI seriously enough, while...

Guardrails Action, a nonprofit pushing for safeguards on artificial intelligence, led a coalition of nearly 40 organizations to outline a series of key principles for AI legislation, warning that it will oppose anything less. In a Wednesday letter to lawmakers, the coalition argued legislation must feature enforceable and transparent government oversight that is not designed...

OpenAI released a new batch of mathematics breakthroughs on Tuesday following calls from AI researchers and developers to slow the growth of the technology. The company released 377 results that cover physics, mathematical and other scientific problems solved by an OpenAI internal frontier model not yet available to the public. “Towards acceleration of scientific discovery...

President Trump’s selection of four administration officials to head up his new “Super Intelligence Force” is offering a window into how the White House will approach AI in the face of pressure over its risks. The group of government leaders each reflect different priorities of the Trump administration after months of mixed messaging on the...

The Canadian owner of the adult content website says Apple’s age checks for iPhone and iPad users are some of the hardest to get around.

The cut-price Anko glasses sold out within a week. Now they’re gone, and the privacy watchdog is investigating the company behind their app.