Bullet vending machines are getting increasingly popular in Republican-led states.

Michigan Republican Anthony Hudson blamed the terrible A.I.-generated ad on a campaign volunteer.

China has already started. This is going to make Putin’s 2016 troll farm look like amateur hour. Can we counter it?

A group of newspapers is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of effectively stealing—and profiting from—journalists’ work. This could well be an existential legal fight.

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

Yossi Sariel has revealed himself as the head of the IDF’s Unit 8200 and the mastermind behind A.I. strategy.

Jennifer Granholm has floated the idea of giving A.I. data centers their own nuclear power plant.

Between its water use, energy use, e-waste, and need for critical minerals that could better be used on renewable energy, A.I. could trash our chances of a sustainable future.

The fake candidate is somehow more human—and less willing to do Bill Ackman’s bidding.

The end of “hot labor summer” looked like a victory for SAG-AFTRA. But some of its members aren’t so sure.

The venerable magazine briefly took A.I.-generated content to a hilarious new extreme.

The tech industry thought that the legal issues over their shiny new toys were a settled matter. They thought wrong.

Artificial intelligence once promised to make us healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or total annihilation.

One of Congress’s leading authorities on A.I. says the federal government needs to be more involved in building guardrails.

PLUS: Congress tackles A.I., and GOP senators stay neutral.

Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.

The high court’s ruling on the nature of “transformative” works of art could have major ramifications for artists working today—as well as the A.I. enthusiasts looking toward tomorrow.

PLUS: Lawmakers eye A.I., and a quick and dirty election round-up.

Lawmakers agree that the rapid evolution of this technology needs to be addressed—but they’re still getting up to speed on the details.

Is the hype (and doomsaying) around generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT obscuring what the technology actually does—and its genuine limitations and dangers?