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Boeing will build the U.S. Navy's next fighter aircraft, following years of clandestine competition and multiple contracting false alarms.Why it matters: Boeing's win in the F/A-XX competition means the company's sixth-generation aircraft will succeed the Super Hornet fleet, long relied upon and…
President Trump on Tuesday told Axios Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would be a good AI czar. Why it matters: Trump is actively looking to fill the position as calls for government intervention on AI intensify.Driving the news: As the director of national intelligence, Clayton is the…
President Trump said Tuesday that top AI executives agreed to voluntary standards aimed at increasing industry oversight.Why it matters: The agreement puts AI companies at the center of policing their own technology as pressure grows for stronger safeguards.Driving the news: Trump and Speaker Mike…
President Trump's administration on Monday filed its 41st application to the Supreme Court's shadow docket, a milestone that matches the total number of petitions it filed during his entire first term — in less than two years.Why it matters: The record highlights how often the president has turned…
A public interest law group hit OpenAI with a lawsuit Tuesday over its breach of tech company Hugging Face, seeking court-ordered restrictions to prevent future hacks.The big picture: The rogue hacking incident — and reports of tens of thousands of other possible examples of problematic agentic…
President Trump is personally selecting which government-funded ads his administration is airing ahead of the midterms — with more to come, Axios has learned."This is just the beginning," an administration official told Axios.Why it matters: The seemingly partisan nature of the taxpayer-funded ads…
Artist JMSN is demanding the Trump administration stop using his song "Love Me," which was the background music for a controversial government ad that critics argue illegally uses taxpayer money.The big picture: The administration has repeatedly come under fire for its use of celebrities' music and…
OpenAI launched dots, its take on the AI assistant and an answer to Meta's Muse, a personal agent that has gone viral and moved markets since its release.Why it matters: ChatGPT defined the chatbot era, but that status will have to be earned again as the world shifts from talking with AI to making…
More AI is the surest solution to an emerging AI security crisis, industry execs and researchers say.Why it matters: The revelation in Axios that researchers are investigating tens of thousands of problematic AI security incidents — rather than the dozens that had been publicly revealed — raised…
Iowa is on the verge of a farm crisis that threatens to wreck the agricultural heart of the state and hurt the fortunes of Republicans at the top of the midterm ticket, GOP strategists acknowledge.Why it matters: Democrats could win in several once-reliably Republican states in November, but…
Pope Leo XIV told reporters that warnings from AI researchers should be "taken seriously" and are not "fake news."Why it matters: Leo is leading the Catholic Church as AI raises sweeping societal concerns, and he has made confronting those risks a key part of his papacy.As the first American pope,…
SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket came back to Earth earlier than planned after its first orbital flight Monday, with an explosion visible on the company's livestream just after touchdown in the Pacific Ocean.Why it matters: The massive, fully-reusable Starship is key to SpaceX's commercial…
Some of the world's foremost AI researchers and policy leaders — including at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft — are warning that AI's growing ability to automate its own development could rapidly speed up its progress.Why it matters: Such a rapid scale-up in capabilities would leave governments and…
AI companies, private equity firms and unions are looking beyond 2026 in the data center debate, banding together to form a new multimillion-dollar coalition to make the case for responsible growth in seven key states.Why it matters: The new group, the American Infrastructure Alliance, wants to…
Dario Amodei went from a MAGA smear campaign target, to a "Saturday Night Live" punching bag, to a private White House dinner with President Trump — all in the space of 72 hours this weekend.Such is life for the face of AI in America.The big picture: He may not have sought the status, but…
Meta is finally promising the one feature that has long kept me away from its AI services: privacy.Why it matters: In a world with many models capable of meeting my needs, knowing how my data will be used is a key factor, especially with sensitive information.Driving the news: The Facebook parent,…
Amid intensifying debate over the risks posed by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, Chinese developers dominating the open-weight ecosystem are grappling with a unique problem: how to ensure their user-modifiable models remain safe once they are released.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's flirtation with a 2028 Senate bid is getting real — more real than the presidential buzz around her might suggest.She's barnstorming through upstate New York, meeting with local officials, and kicking off a voter turnout program that could help her collect…
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