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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday called for permanently banning artificial superintelligence in response to recent remarks made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman told Politico's "Decoded" podcast in an interview last week that society will face a "coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems" coming from open-source AI models. He also said that people will...

Pro-Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) ads appeared to target the wrong city of Portland in a GOP super PAC mix-up, running ads in Oregon instead of Maine. “During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon media market instead of Portland, Maine,” a spokesperson from Republican...

The Republican National Convention confirmed the president will travel to Georgia on Oct. 16 for a rally.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Sunday hailed the order from a federal judge blocking the Trump administration from using taxpayer money to pay for advertisements promoting his leadership and pledged it marked “only the beginning” of a legal battle over the controversial ads. “Taxpayer dollars are not Trump’s personal propaganda fund. This...

The race for control of the Senate is heating up, with forecasters increasingly moving races in the Democrats' direction less than a month out from the election. Last week, nonpartisan election forecasters Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia Center for Politics shifted Senate races in Kansas, New Hampshire,...