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A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Friday unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 allows for the warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals believed to be outside of the U.S., yet, in practice, it also sweeps up and stores vast amounts of data from people inside the country, including their emails, texts and cellphone data. The FISA provision was enacted in 2008 to legalize George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program that was developed after 9/11. A bipartisan group of senators is opposing the reauthorization of Section 702 due to President Trump’s naming of MAGA loyalist Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation in May. Pulte has no known background in intelligence. He currently serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he has used his position to carry out Trump’s campaign of retribution against his political enemies. “It took this nomination of a completely unqualified guy to get enough members of Congress to really stop [Section 702],” says Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “It’s time to take a look and listen hard about the privacy protections that are needed, at a minimum, for this program to go forward.” Cohn notes that the “massive national security surveillance state that was built after 9/11 has always been a threat to freedom.”

Amodei said AI could soon create both huge economic growth and massive unemployment.

Search engines are partially protected against liability for their results in most jurisdictions, because they point to outside websites.

“We think that our plan forward is actually a more responsible way to use technology to benefit the people,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said.

Nvidia’s head of sustainability wants to educate policymakers and the public about the positive impacts AI can have.

“This is going to be one of the three or four major plot lines of the next decade,” former Neuralink president says.

Google’s Charina Chou said the government “can do more” to invest in and support the sector.

The bullish news for AI companies is that everyone using the technology will keep spending to keep up.

The workaround involves cryptocurrency that purportedly has exposure to the underlying stocks.