A 2026 NBC News poll found 46% of registered U.S. voters viewed AI negatively, anchoring coverage that increasingly treats technology as a public-accountability issue.
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Coverage reached its recent high in 2025Q2, then shifted from broad tech-policy and corporate stories toward NBC News-originated reporting on the local and electoral effects of AI. The period coincided with prominent coverage of Trump’s threat of a 25%+ tariff on U.S.-unmade iPhones and a court ruling on Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training, illustrating the policy, trade, and intellectual-property environment around the outlet’s tech coverage.
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