Iowa Republican nominee Zach Lahn tells Larry O'Connor that Democrat Rob Sand is a liberal running as a moderate. Lahn lays out his plan to cut the state gas tax, contrasts his business and farm background with Sand's 20 years in government, and explains why he ran after Gov. Kim Reynolds stepped aside. He also calls for ending tax breaks for data centers, and Larry weighs in on Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Rachel Maddow's interest in the race.
White House staff pre-select which reporters to call on at press briefings — a common practice that President Trump has criticized Joe Biden for in the past.
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario […] The post Obama joins AI slowdown chorus one day after Trump dismissed safety fears as a hoax appeared first on American Almanac .
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on artificial intelligence dangers just one day after President Trump declared the only "guardrail" the technology needs is a strong president, drawing a sharp line between two very different visions of who should control the most powerful technology in a generation. Obama's public statement came after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay warning that AI has been "advancing dramatically faster" since the summer and proposing a three-step plan to bring independent evaluators into AI companies and push governments to set safety standards. USA Today reported that both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed Amodei's message on X, with Musk writing simply, "Dario is right." Trump, posting…Open
The Senate voted 49-50 against a motion to proceed with consideration of the Clarity Act, failing to reach the required 60-vote threshold, after all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted against it.
