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The House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data and Commerce hosted a hearing, headlined “Economic Danger Zone: How America Competes to Win the Future Versus China.” The problem? The witnesses consisted of a string of leftist-funded, Big Tech-backed organizations trying to push a dystopian artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicle (AV) scheme under the pretense of protecting American national security against China.

The European Union has signalled a plan to expand access to its high performance computing (HPC) supercomputers by letting startups use the resource to train AI models. Back in May, the EU announced a plan for a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards targeted at industry developing and applying AI while formal regulations continued being worked -- saying the initiative would aim to prepare firms for the implementation of formal AI rules in a few years' time. A spokesman for the Comm...

The European Union has signalled a plan to expand access to its high performance computing (HPC) supercomputers by letting startups use the resource to The European Union has signalled a plan to expand access to its high performance computing supercomputers by letting startups use the resource to train AI models.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is advising consumers to transfer money stored on nonbank digital payment apps such as PayPal, Venmo and Cash App to insured banks and credit unions.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra said the systemically important financial institution designation should be considered for platforms such as PayPal, Venmo and Cash App.

 

The immigration framework being discussed as a potential last-minute deal in the lame duck session would hike Border Patrol pay by 14% and recapture employment visas.

Also: Google’s latest cybersecurity messaging took a swipe at a tech rival.

As a House vote on the massive Democratic spending bill nears, Republicans are sounding the alarm about sweeping immigration measures that have frequently been overlooked.

A Big Tech-backed “fact” “checking” outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans’ claims of significant election problems at a Thursday Georgia Senate hearing. It didn’t. Not even close. Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers b...