Newsweek is reporting that it has created an AI Policy Scorecard mapping every member of Congress from AI Skeptic to AI Booster, using voting records, sponsored legislation and public statements. It said lawmakers are still navigating AI's implications, making the midterms especially unique as candidates take positions on jobs, regulation, data centers, privacy and competition with China. Newsweek said partisan lines are blurring in the process.
Newsweek is reporting that AI leaders signed the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence" on Tuesday, which President Donald Trump described as "morally binding." It said the accord raises questions about whether voluntary commitments are enough to regulate a technology moving this fast, or whether they will fall short when real pressure arrives. Newsweek columnist David Averre wrote that morality is a concept AI is fundamentally unable to conceive, and perhaps the last word one might associate with corporate boardrooms.
Newsweek is reporting that Tennessee's attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection involved two doses of pentobarbital before she was rushed to a hospital, and that she survived. It said experts are examining what could have gone wrong inside the death chamber, and that there are three possible explanations.
Newsweek is reporting that the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office reopened its investigation into an alleged sexual assault at Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity after a new civil lawsuit brought different allegations and evidence to light. It said the district attorney stated the 2024 investigation relied on Cornell police and that some information cited in the lawsuit was not provided to prosecutors. Newsweek said the decision came amid renewed media attention and public outrage, though officials said the new allegations themselves provided grounds for reconsideration.
Newsweek also reported that Pope Leo XIV made his first official visit to France from September 25 to 28, with stops in Paris, Lourdes and Metz, marking the first papal visit to the country since Benedict XVI in 2008.