Doug Isenberg

President Donald Trump abruptly delayed the signing of a landmark executive order on AI afternoon, telling reporters that he had pulled the order at the last minute because it could interfere with American competitiveness on AI. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump, answering reporters’ questions in the Oval Office during an unrelated event, said about America’s AI industry.

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by Wired show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and worryingly broad category of people and activities deemed an emerging threat.

AI, which makes so many things easier, is also helping criminals commit cybercrime. That’s one of several trends showing up in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s latest report on internet crime complaints.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a lawsuit brought ​by Vermont's attorney general accusing the company of designing its Instagram social media app to be addictive to young users, as big ‌technology companies face mounting legal risks over child and teen safety. The justices turned away Meta's appeal of a lower court's ruling that let the lawsuit proceed, rejecting the company's argument that courts in Vermont lack jurisdiction over the dispute.

Pope Leo XIV set out a sweeping vision for corporate executives, politicians and individuals who will shape and be shaped by the future of artificial intelligence, warning leaders to safeguard humanity from AI’s most disruptive effects. Leo’s declaration came in the form of a papal encyclical, an open letter to “all people of good will” that ran to roughly 42,300 words in its English version.

Federal judges and legal experts said they are increasingly seeing filings flooding court dockets and clogging an already overburdened system as AI supercharges pro se litigation — even as it opens up the legal system to people who might not otherwise be able to afford to bring a case. Many judges emphasized the seriousness of the immediate workload problem created by AI-enabled pro se filings, including one who characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.”

Google asked a federal appeals court to reverse a landmark ruling that branded the company a monopolist in online search. The Department of Justice sued Google in 2020, arguing that the tech giant had abused its monopoly to maintain its dominance over online search.

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup’s AI tools generate “verbatim” copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court, also alleges that Perplexity provides users with information locked behind CNN’s subscription.

Malaysia has begun barring those aged under 16 from registering accounts on social ​media platforms, its communications regulator said, ‌as it boosts efforts to protect minors from exposure to harmful content online. The Southeast Asian nation joins a growing number of ​countries introducing measures to regulate access to ​online platforms, amid mounting concerns over the impact ⁠of social media on children's health and safety.

Florida fired a new broadside in a growing rebellion against alleged safety failings of artificial-intelligence chatbots, becoming the first state to file a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman. The lawsuit, filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, claims OpenAI and Altman knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users.