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Trump Wants Feds to Have Early Look at AI Models
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (149+ words) Washington Post: "President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that would provide the government with an early look at powerful new artificial intelligence models, giving officials a chance to brace the economy for security risks." Filed Under: Technology, White…...
Trump to Order Oversight of AI Models
1+ week, 5+ day ago (186+ words) President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday giving the government the power to evaluate artificial intelligence models before they are publicly released" It marks a shift for an administration that promoted a hands-off approach to the powerful…...
The Chaos Engine
3+ week, 3+ day ago (156+ words) I joined John Ellis on the News Items podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of American politics. We talked about Donald Trump's sinking approval numbers, Democratic momentum heading into the midterms, the races that could determine control of…...
Hacker Stole Thousands From Cory Booker's Campaign
3+ week, 5+ day ago (261+ words) A hacker stole more than $3, 000 from Sen. Cory Booker's reelection committee, NOTUS reports. Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy…...
White House Opposes Plan to Expand Access to Mythos
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (125+ words) The White House opposes a plan from Anthropic to expand access to its powerful artificial-intelligence model Mythos, complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks and sowing widespread disruptions online," the Wall Street Journal reports. Anthropic…...
National Security Agency Is Using Mythos
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (380+ words) The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense " which oversees the NSA " insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," Axios reports. Every morning before the sun's…...
Why Attacks on Iran's Infrastructure Will Backfire
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (697+ words) Repeated instances where diplomatic efforts occurred in the shadow of U. S. attacks have only strengthened hardline arguments that the U. S. cannot be trusted to negotiate in good faith, narrowing the space for compromise." Also, the regime's instinct for symmetry means retaliation on…...
China Suspected in Breach of FBI Surveillance Network
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (709+ words) U. S. investigators believe hackers affiliated with the Chinese government are responsible for a cyber intrusion on an internal Federal Bureau of Investigation computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders," the Wall Street Journal reports. The scope and…...
Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (679+ words) Despite campaign finance laws preventing coordination between campaigns and super PACS, the New York Times found anonymous X accounts with links to Rep. Wesley Hunt's (R-TX) U. S. Senate campaign sharing strategic information, private polling and messaging advice with outside allies for…...
Federal Data Is Disappearing
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (625+ words) NOTUS: "Researchers estimate that well over 3, 000 data sets have been removed from public access. The current reality is that the federal government is no longer a reliable source of widespread data collection." Federal lobbying spending hit $5. 24 billion in 2025, reaching the…...