Anna Edgerton

US Senator Richard Blumenthal opened a hearing on AI with a recording of his voice describing the risks of this emerging technology.

Christina Call, product manager at Sorenson, explains why deaf workers should have access to on-demand interpreters.

China’s embrace of artificial intelligence for warfare has touched off alarm bells everywhere from Silicon Valley to the Pentagon.

House Republicans aren’t buying Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s warning that the US government will run out of money as soon as June 1, or her dire predictions of default, undercutting the urgency to raise the debt limit.

Many Republicans are shrugging off warnings from the White House, corporate executives and financial markets. “The fact is, we’re going to have cash in June,” Rep. Chip Roy said. “The fact is, we’re not going to default on our debt."

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Microsoft Corp. is calling for a new US agency to regulate artificial intelligence and licensing requirements to operate the most powerful AI tools, company President Brad Smith said Thursday.

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Biden administration officials are divided over how aggressively new artificial intelligence tools should be regulated — and their differences are playing out this week in Sweden.