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Two of the most popular map apps available on smartphones, Google Maps and Apple Maps, now disagree on the name of one of the Great Lakes. Google Maps is following the U.S. government’s renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America, while Apple Maps is ignoring President Trump’s executive order.

A federal appeals court says it had no choice but to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child pornography because of a 2002 Supreme Court ruling, even as judges warned that modern technology has blurred the legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago.

A woman identified as “Jane Doe” sued Elon Musk’s xAI this week, alleging the company trained its Grok AI chatbot on child pornography depicting her, in what appears to be the first case accusing xAI of training its AI on child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said none of the social media platforms have committed to removing “inaccurate” information “about voting or candidates,” calling that “very scary.”

A 63-year-old man who inexplicably set himself on fire Friday in the lobby of a Lower Manhattan office building has been arrested and charged with arson, the New York Police Department announced Saturday.

National security experts are sounding the alarm after X said it uncovered Chinese bots targeting U.S. debates over AI data centers and technology policy.

Friday, on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) discussed the opposition to an OpenAI and NVIDIA $500 billion data center in Ohio.

A Florida man faces felony charges after allegedly vandalizing a decoy Flock camera. The decoy, part of a vandalism sting, was built by a police officer with a personal 3D printer to catch vandals in the act.

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Pentagon acted illegally when it labeled AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk, finding the designation violated the First Amendment.

MapQuest has made it clear the website will not budge when it comes to changing the name of Lake Ontario, which President Donald Trump renamed Lake America on Thursday.

A Florida sheriff dismissed growing concerns over Flock cameras in his community as ignorance, asserting that the AI-powered automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are essential to help solve crimes, and compared efforts to “deFlock” the community to cities who want to defund the police.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will pay $18 billion to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of fueling a teen mental health crisis, but nearly a third of that sum depends on whether TikTok and YouTube agree to adopt the same safeguards. The social media giant is now directly calling on its largest competitors to follow Zuckerberg’s lead.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Floridians are right to be “concerned” about the fast-paced emergence of Flock surveillance cameras in their communities at every turn, telling reporters it is “out of control” and that we “don’t want to have this become a surveillance state,” acknowledging the instances of abuse, like a “police officer using this to track” an ex-girlfriend.

The DOJ said Wednesday it had seized internet domains tied to two hacking platforms that Chinese state-sponsored operatives used to break into the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, NASA and several other federal agencies.

West Virginia law enforcement said a 20-year-old man who allegedly used the name “MrChildPorn” online is accused of possessing material depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The “Russia-linked” Qilin ransomware group is taking credit for a cybersecurity incident that involved an alleged hack into a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) system, according to The Hill.

President Donald Trump has done a “phenomenal job” at working to increase domestic production of semiconductor chips as the technology race against China heats up, Substrate founder and CEO James Proud told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.

A pro-Russian group claimed responsibility for cyberattack that affected multiple Norwegian government services over the past three days.

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said during a Breitbart News policy event that the Department of War has dramatically expanded access to artificial intelligence across the department as part of its AI acceleration strategy, with roughly 1.7 million people now using the technology for enterprise, intelligence, and warfighting purposes.

Innovation Council Action founder Taylor Budowich emphasized listening to communities and addressing concerns over electricity and water surrounding artificial intelligence and data-center development during a Breitbart News policy event, while arguing that good policy can help address the political challenges surrounding the issues.

WASHINGTON—Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael said Tuesday at Breitbart News’s latest policy event that whoever wins the AI Race, the United States or China, will dominate economically and militarily. 

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and leftist billionaire who has spent years predicting that AI would free people from drudgery and speed cures for disease and climate change, published an essay Wednesday warning that without urgent government intervention, AI could cause more harm than good.

Having only a handful of huge defense contractors limits competition and innovation, Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said during the Breitbart News policy event “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace,” on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

Chris Malone, OpenAI’s head of data centers, has suddenly left Sam Altman’s AI startup, joining a mass exodus of executives from the ChatGPT developer.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta agreed to pay roughly $18 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 states over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive design.

American AI dominance is a “question of winning or losing” on a global stage against China, Phillip Buckendorf, CEO and founder of Air Space Intelligence (ASI), said during a discussion at the Breitbart News policy event, “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace.”

The “tech-focused” Trump administration is “moving faster than any administration ever has” to replace ancient systems reliant on Windows 95, Philip Buckendorf, CEO and founder of Air Space Intelligence (ASI), said during a discussion at the Breitbart News policy event “AI is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace.”

The Chinese Embassy in Panama published a bizarre image on Monday of a sobbing shumai, a form of dumpling typically left open on the top, with a microphone stuck into it as a form of protest against American diplomats.

DOW’s budget request is necessary to modernize defense, as most of the systems we have today were designed and built for the Cold War, USW Emil Michael says.

Innovation Council Action (ICA) Founder Taylor Budowich pointed out during a Breitbart News event on Tuesday that AI data centers “should be feeding our communities” instead of taking away from communities and draining them.

Locals have every right to question data centers, Breitbart News social media director and “Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI” author Wynton Hall said.