Today's headlines are dominated by AI's expanding reach—touching politics, policy, national security, and its growing strain on the power grid—alongside legal battles over power plant pollution and a smattering of political and tech news.
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Politicians have got no hope when it comes to AI – just look at Trump | The Independent
Alan Rusbridger argues in an opinion piece that AI is developing so fast that neither tech industry leaders nor lawmakers, including Trump, are capable of understanding or regulating it.
The technology is developing at such a speed that even the tech bros don’t understand it – let alone the lawmakers we might hope will regulate it, writes Alan Rusbridger
The way to AI superiority is with a superior CIA
An opinion piece argues the U.S. intelligence community should redirect its resources toward using AI to counter foreign adversaries rather than domestic political targets.
If the deep state can spend years planting and investigating the mythological "Russia collusion" against an American president and MAGA citizens, just think of what it could accomplish by putting those same energies toward beating an actual U.S. adversary with an actual threat to U.S. interests.
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Three Things About Iowa Politics This Fall | Blog For Iowa
An Iowa political blogger discusses the closing of the fundraising quarter and the upcoming general election, noting they declined donation requests from Democratic candidates including Sherrod Brown, John Ossoff, and Eugene Vindman.
Rural Polling Place Three things are on my mind now and for the remaining 31 days until the general election. In case you missed it, last Wednesday was the closing day of the fund raising quarter. I had to tell Mary Peltola, Sherrod Brown, Eugene Vindman, John Ossoff, and James Talarico no.
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