A bipartisan group of senators is recommending that the federal government spend at least $32 billion a year on non-defense artificial intelligence innovation. Senators Chuck ...

BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 10 MONTHS AGO

A former engineering director at Facebook Inc. told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today how he was ignored when he aired his concerns to management about ...

BY JAMES FARRELL - 1 YEAR AGO

U.S. senators today discussed the rise of artificial intelligence at what was the first-ever briefing on the technology, and most of them sounded somewhat concerned ...

BY JAMES FARRELL - 2 YEARS AGO

A bipartisan antitrust bill designed to make digital markets more competitive was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a 16-6 vote. The bill, ...

BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has reportedly sent a letter to lawmakers arguing that two antitrust bills currently being considered in the Senate could put iOS users at ...

BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

A bipartisan report released by the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has found that federal agencies continue to suffer shortcomings in their ...

BY DUNCAN RILEY - 4 YEARS AGO

The chief executives of Facebook Inc., Google LLC, and Twitter Inc. will be grilled in front of Congress Wednesday, with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg the only ...

BY JAMES FARRELL - 4 YEARS AGO

Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn have introduced a bill that would require tech firms to help law enforcement officials access their users’ ...

BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 5 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Department of Justice and senator Josh Hawley today introduced legislative proposals that aim to restrict the legal protections afforded to tech giants under ...

BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 5 YEARS AGO

The Senate voted Monday to block a deal by President Donald Trump’s administration that would have removed crippling sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. ...

BY MIKE WHEATLEY - 7 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Senate Wednesday voted to save net neutrality by overturning a decision made by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the regulations made in ...

BY JAMES FARRELL - 7 YEARS AGO

The price of bitcoin surged Tuesday after presentations by U.S. regulators at a Senate hearing on cryptocurrencies delivered no surprises. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures ...

BY DUNCAN RILEY - 7 YEARS AGO