Chinese AI companies are scrambling to rent Nvidia-powered computing capacity at data centres outside China, fearing the spy scandal surrounding Jensen Huang could accelerate US restrictions on chip exports to China.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a Situation Room meeting over Lutnick's refusal to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed on a national security threat list, as scrutiny intensifies over the Jensen Huang spy affair.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit unanimously ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to compel LinkedIn to hand over data on journalists who were critics in the news media, citing press freedom protections.
Vanderbilt researchers flagged a trader who made over $257,000 on Senate race bets placed shortly before major New York Times/Siena political polls went public, prompting a Polymarket investigation into potential information leakage.
Democrat Josh Turek, a state representative and former wheelchair basketball star, defeated Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa's U.S. Senate race, flipping a Republican-held seat and marking Iowa's first Democratic senator in more than a decade.
Voters across the United States cast ballots in midterm elections to determine control of the House of Representatives and Senate, with Democrats expected to make gains amid discontent over high prices and the Iran conflict. All 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats, and 39 governorships are being contested.
The New York Times and other publications filed lawsuits against Brave Software, alleging the privacy-focused browser unlawfully scraped copyrighted content to train AI models and enabled users to bypass paywalls. The suit names Anthropic and Perplexity as recipients of the scraped content.
President Trump announced he will deliver his final midterm campaign message Monday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., promoting his controversial restoration project that has faced delays and cost overruns.
New polling from The New York Times/Siena College shows Democrats ahead or tied in seven battleground Senate races including Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine, Ohio, Iowa, and Alaska, though most races remain within the margin of error.
U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed with prejudice President Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over reporting on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, ruling Trump failed to prove actual malice.
Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey will ask a federal judge to block the Justice Department from pursuing its third criminal case against him. A top aide to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged prosecutors made a 'f---up' in the case, according to an FBI agent.
The New York Times reported that Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign and DSCC officials participated in recruiting a challenger named Dan J. Sullivan to run against incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan, potentially confusing voters.
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to taper off seizure medication, leading to devastating consequences.
The Justice Department filed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey, accusing him of illegally transmitting national defense information in 2016. This marks the third prosecution attempt by the Trump administration against Comey.
President Trump confirmed he is considering relocating the White House press corps from the historic James S. Brady Press Briefing Room to another area, though he denied reports about converting the space to a swimming pool. The move would represent a significant shift in how journalists cover the presidency.
Iranian officials stated that resumption of war with the US and Israel would not change Tehran's positions, as President Trump indicated potential military action after the November midterms and Israeli elections, with US intelligence warning of advanced Iranian assassination plots against American officials.
Meta had withheld its AI agent Muse from public release for months over safety concerns, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg accelerated the launch when competing agent Instinct started gaining traction in Silicon Valley, according to the New York Times.
New York Times/Siena and Fox News polls show Democratic Senate candidates at 50% or higher in Texas and Alaska, with competitive races in traditionally Republican states including Ohio, Iowa and Kansas, one month before midterm elections.
Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times copyright case reveal Microsoft's Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht privately described AI training as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' Internal communications show both Microsoft and OpenAI knew scraping paywalled content would harm publishers.
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts faces potential closure as early as Tuesday unless President Trump's name is added back to the building, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and New York Times. Board trustees warn of "certain fiscal collapse" within weeks.
The Trump administration filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with the New York Times, arguing that training AI on copyrighted content doesn't violate copyright law and calling the AI industry a national security interest.
A Russian drone fitted with an Nvidia chip and guided entirely by AI killed three Ukrainian civilians in July, according to Ukrainian officials and the New York Times. The attack represents a significant escalation in autonomous weaponry.
Two Binance employees were detained at UAE airports in recent weeks amid police inquiries into possible financial crimes on the cryptocurrency platform, according to the New York Times. Both have since been released.
Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to four New York Times journalists compelling them to reveal sources for stories about security shortcomings on the Qatari-gifted presidential jet being used as Air Force One. The unusually aggressive move has drawn criticism from press freedom advocates and even Fox News journalists.
The New York Times and other publishers filed court documents accusing OpenAI of withholding evidence about how its AI systems are trained and used, requesting legal sanctions in their ongoing copyright lawsuit.
The New York Times reports that Trump administration cuts to infectious disease research funding and staffing, including disease detectives, have compromised U.S. preparedness for the ongoing hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. The CDC's response is being led by its Global Migration Health division as seven states prepare to receive potentially exposed passengers.
