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Capitol agenda: AI experts to school Congress wanted

One big concern is at the staffing level: getting people with a deep understanding of the technology around rank-and-file members.

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POLITICO· Oct 19, 12:00 PMCapitol agenda: AI experts to school Congress wanted

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‘Want some crack?’ Alarms blare as Republicans unleash tsunami of deepfaked attack adsRepublicans and their allies are flooding the 2026 midterms with attack ads made with artificial intelligence, and election laws are struggling to keep pace. The Wesleyan Media Project found that $137 million had been spent on 220 AI-generated political ads through Oct. 11, and most of that came from Republicans, reported Axios . Many of the ads put…

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The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong?Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries. The post The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong? appeared first on The Intercept .

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The AI attack-ad nightmare is coming trueAI is producing reality-bending midterm ads about defaced Bibles, upscale dinners and a board game with a "Death to America" playing card. Why it matters: The warnings about deepfakes are coming true. Election laws haven't kept pace with a world where campaigns can put words in opponents' mouths and create realistic-looking scenes that didn't happen. The…

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Wanted: Tech experts to help Congress regulate AILawmakers need “someone in the room” to help them understand the rapidly evolving technology, one expert says.

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Asian shares are mixed with tech stocks volatile, and oil falls on Trump's Russian sanctions waiverAsian shares are mixed as the volatility in technology stocks persists. U.S. futures have edged higher ahead of another week of American corporate earnings. A sell-off of technology shares from Asia to Wall Street has recently put downward pressure on stock markets, as investor concerns grow over the sustainability of the artificial intelligence boom.…

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PBOC’s Pan Says to Monitor AI Impact on Economy, Monetary PolicyPeople’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng said the central bank will closely monitor the macroeconomic impact of artificial intelligence and prudently assess its effects on the economy, financial markets and monetary policy, while making forward-looking policy preparations.

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As Millions Struggle to Get By, Plutocrat Working to Kill California Billionaire Tax Dines With TrumpBillionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has spent more than $100 million fighting a proposed wealth tax in California, shared a lavish dinner with billionaire US President Donald Trump over the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida as millions of American families struggle to afford groceries, healthcare, and other necessities.…

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Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your DissentFor all our billionaire social media leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on it. As the midterm elections approach—a high-stakes race not only for both parties but for Silicon Valley, which faces the prospect of AI regulation under a Democratic House and Senate—reports […]

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How a foreign government helped accused Saudi spy's family flee US after OpenAI bug scandalA former OpenAI engineer was in frequent contact with Saudi royalty and searching company records on the Kingdom before his arrest, prosecutors say.

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Ex-OpenAI worker who allegedly planted bug contacted Saudi royalThe wife and infant son of the ex-OpenAI engineer left the U.S. for Saudi Arabia in October with business-class tickets purchased by a Saudi military official, prosecutors allege.

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