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We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan has landed, offering a…

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers’ personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers…

I maintain a to-do list of story ideas to write at Ars, and for about a year “monthly column on DOS games I love” has been near the top of…

It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being…

Stark Future provided flights from Albany, New York, to Barcelona, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could ride the Varg EX. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The sport of…

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it’s surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO2 emissions and water use for many major large language models.…

So many pro-police lawmakers and city officials have always insisted the only way to bring down crime rates is to add more cops to the mix. This may work if…

Here’s how you know the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case represents something fundamentally broken in government accountability: within hours of two federal judges ordering his release and explicitly warning the government…

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount, which owns CBS. But the agency’s approval drew fiery dissent from the only Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, after…