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 ...

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.” ...

A judge goes to bat, solidarity does a body good, trans care gets an insurance policy, and buffalo roam free once again.

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