The recent burst of generative artificial intelligence is forcing the US Senate into a debate lawmakers have put off for years: privacy reform. While Americans' personal data is a commodity sold, traded, mined, and even "recycled," passing from second party to third party to digital banana stand, some senators believe your personal data is siloed off from the earth-altering AI work those companies, like OpenAI and Google, are testing, tweaking, and deploying daily. "They want to predict the future for purposes of marketing and selling products, and that's already there," says Florida Republican Marco Rubio, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, dismissing the need for an overhaul of federal privacy laws. Rubio is far from an outlier. Ted Cruz of Texas, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, agrees.

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' Senators left a classified briefing on artificial intelligence Tuesday with a deeper understanding of how AI is already being used to bolster U.S. national security and the looming threat China poses as it deploys its own AI capabilities. "I think, from a military perspective, it's very existential because China's playing for keeps," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital after the closed-door session. So, it's moving quickly, but I think the best we can do right now is get a firm understanding." Tuesday afternoon's briefing was the first-ever classified meeting with senators and key Pentagon officials about AI. Discussion included how the U.S. is using AI to maintain its national security edge and how adversaries like China are using this emerging tool. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters what he learned was "eye-opening." It comes after he told senators in a letter over the weekend that Congress is moving full steam ahead on his AI regulatory framework, which Schumer said Tuesday could take months to develop. HOW AI HAS SHAPED A VITAL NATO ALLY'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a classified Senate briefing on artificial intelligence at the U.S. Capitol July 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) "This briefing shows just depth, complexity, but necessity of getting something real done.

Concerns over technology could see Las Vegas ground to a halt. The membership of the Culinary Union, which represents workers in the city's casinos, have voted to strike if a deal cannot be reached over the increasing use of technology in their workplaces as well as increases in wages and the strengthening of language around sexual harassment. On June 1 the contracts of 50,000 union workers expire, raising the possibility of the first casino worker strike in Vegas since 1984. That one lasted 67 days and cost more than $1 million a day. "We support innovations that improve jobs, but we oppose automation when it only destroys jobs," Culinary Union secretary-treasurer Geoconda Argüello-Kline said.