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US lawmakers have renewed efforts to codify a US strategic Bitcoin reserve with a new bipartisan bill on Thursday that seeks to acquire around 1 million Bitcoin over five years. 

The American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 would establish a Strategic Bitcoin (BTC) Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile for other federally held cryptocurrencies, which would be held by the US Treasury Department, said the bill’s sponsor, Representative Nick Begich.

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it gave unauthorized legal advice, arguing that its generative artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT is not a lawyer and does not ​practice law.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had postponed signing ‌an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the U.S. position in its AI competition with China.

stale TACO salad, anyone?

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries and markets around the world, a sense of dread is deepening among young "digital natives" now entering the workforce, fearful of the impact on jobs ​and daily life as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini become household names.

On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn’t a cloud or dust, then alerted the state’s forest service and largest electric utility.

A federal court on Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity’s benefit.

Moldovan leaders denounced as a threat Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer of simplified Russian citizenship for the country's pro-Russian Transdniestria separatist enclave and contemplated ​measures to counteract it.

"Probably, they want more people to send to the war in Ukraine," President ​Maia Sandu, a frequent critic of Russia's invasion of its neighbour, told a conference ​in Estonia on Saturday.

Harvey Weinstein's third trial in New York over allegations he used his Hollywood clout to prey upon and sexually abuse women ended in a mistrial on Friday, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a ​charge he raped the aspiring actress Jessica Mann.

Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified on Monday that he spent about a year gathering evidence for the ChatGPT maker's board that CEO Sam Altman had displayed a "consistent pattern of lying."

Google shared limited information about the attackers and the target, but John Hultquist, chief analyst at the tech giant’s threat intelligence arm, said it represents a moment cybersecurity experts have warned about for years: malicious hackers arming themselves with AI to supercharge their ability to break into the world’s computers.
“It’s here,” Hultquist said. “The era of AI-driven vulnerability and exploitation is already here.”

Leaders from various religious groups met last week with representatives from companies including Anthropic and OpenAI for the inaugural “Faith-AI Covenant” roundtable in New York to discuss how best to infuse morality and ethics into the fast-developing technology. It was organized by the Geneva-based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities, which seeks to take on issues such as extremism, radicalization and human trafficking. The roundtable is expected to be the first of several around the globe, including in Beijing, Nairobi and Abu Dhabi.

During his testimony last week, Musk tried at one point to play the part of his own legal counsel, accusing OpenAI's lawyer William Savitt of asking him leading questions.

Gonzalez Rogers quickly shut him down.

"That's not how it works," she interjected.

"Let's remind everyone in the courtroom that you are not a lawyer," she told Musk.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
— Tenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution
The Trump administration’s National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (released March 20, 2026) and the DOJ AI Litigation Task Force are the two halves of a "pincer movement" by the current president to stop the proliferation of state-level AI regulations.