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Data Centers Could Sink Republicans in November Midterm ElectionsRepublicans are confronting a political liability over data centers as voter concerns about rising electricity bills intensify ahead of the November midterm elections, according to party strategists. [1] Senate Democrats blocked legislation sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) that would have required states and some utilities to consider a standard…
AI Researcher Warns Machines May Already Be Developing Languages Humans Can’t Fully UnderstandAdvanced artificial intelligence models may be less than a year away from inventing and deploying unique languages that humans would struggle to understand, a frontier AI researcher told Congress on Sept. 30 [1]. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a hearing examining the threat that “rogue” AI may pose to U.S.…
House Passes Bill Requiring Data Centers to Shoulder Their Own Energy CostsThe U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, Sept. 16, passed a Republican-backed measure that would require artificial intelligence (AI) and other data centers to make deals with local energy providers to cover the full incremental cost of generation, transmission or distribution upgrades, according to the Epoch Times [1]. The bill, known as the…
FBI Director Defends Surveillance Partnerships at Senate Judiciary HearingFBI Director Kash Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 15, 2026, defending the bureau’s access to license plate reader data and its expanding partnerships with private technology companies. The hearing, which lasted several hours, examined the FBI’s use of data collected by private companies and municipalities, queries conducted…
Bill Gates Calls for International AI Regulation, Cites “Alien Intelligence” RiskMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a Reuters interview published Tuesday, Sept. 15, that no national government is adequately prepared for artificial intelligence (AI) and that an international body should be created to police the technology, according to ZeroHedge [1]. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to […]
Bernie Sanders introduces AI censorship bill that JAILS innovators creating systems that empower the people with decentralized knowledgeThe same London-based nonprofit that branded Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and 11 other Americans as the “Disinformation Dozen” in 2021, quietly renamed itself last month, gearing up for a new phase of censorship in the coming turbulence of the AI censorship wars. In 2021, this clandestine organization triggered a cascade of censorship that stripped millions […]
Citizenship Under Siege: Denaturalization Cases Surge, With DOJ Filing 105 Lawsuits in Seven MonthsAt least 105 civil denaturalization lawsuits were filed in federal district courts during the first seven months of 2026, including 50 in July alone, according to data published by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) [1]. The organization previously reported that roughly 125 such lawsuits were filed nationwide between…