Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash  —  The White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits …

Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026  —  California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.

The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president and OpenAI board member Larry Summers. Now, Luke Igel and Riley Walz have reformatted the […]

Writer-director Jalmari Helander and star Jorma Tommila reunite for Sisu: Road to Revenge, bringing Avatar's Stephen Lang in for more explosive fun.

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety  —  Figure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup's former head of product safety who alleged …