AI doomsday distractions, Big Tech’s Democratic allies, a Cruz-linked attack ad, and more from The Lever this week.

An AI apocalypse involving killer robots is terrifying, but don’t overlook a speculative bubble whose collapse will reverberate across the economy.

AI gets detention, voting rights get legal enforcement, court power stops coal power, and the kid who took on Big Hospital.

With the recent Hugging Face hacking incident and a former Anthropic researcher’s doomsday tweets, Sirota and Bores delved into how concerns about AI safety are at an all-time h ...

Before artificial intelligence became a midterms issue, Trump regulators erased consequences for an AI firm linked to fake customer reviews. These bad bots got a slap on the wrist instead of justice.

Before vowing to end data center tax breaks, the Texas Senate candidate voted to create them after accepting 100,000 shares in a server company. As he campaigns across the Lone Star State, Republican ...

Weeks before the midterms, the Democrats’ highest-profile icons are publicly celebrating the AI industry’s revolving-door corruption aiming to infiltrate the party. In the midst of two doomsdays we ...

Silicon Valley says its machines could destroy humanity. The more immediate danger is letting the people building them write ...

Hakeem Jeffries’ five-member AI commission is stacked with lawmakers backed by industry super PACs seeking to shape federal ...

Before Big Tech researchers warned of a superintelligence doomsday, 2028 hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill ...

A little-known Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their ...

Iowa Republican Joe Mitchell says he’s fighting insiders and lobbyists, but he worked for a public relations firm that boasts, “Data center developers count on us.” ...