Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

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Why Did Trump Allow Kim Jong Un To Grow His Nuclear Arsenal Substantially?

Donald Trump claimed former US presidents let North Korea develop nuclear warheads, but while exchanging love letters with Kim Jong-un, under his leadership North Korea increased its nuclear stockpiles twofold in his first term.

One of Demented Donald's favorite slogans is, 'under his watch he would never let it happen,' no matter the situation.

So, for instance, Trump routinely says the Russia-Ukraine war should have never happened, and under his presidency he would have stopped it?

How? Nobody knows.

Here, if he had been President for the last thirty years, he would have never allowed North Korea to develop any nuclear materials.

During yesterday's gaggle, a reporter asked if he's still writing letters to Kim Jong-un. Trump refused to say he had, but then blew kisses to the North Korean leader.

"The fact that I get along with him, that's a good thing, not a bad thing," Trump said.
Trump then launched into his customary revisionist history.

"He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons," Trump stated. "Should have never allowed it to happen. They should have never allowed it."

He continued, "If I were President, I wouldn't have allowed it. But he's got them."

Not one person cares how well he gets on with Kim Jong-un.

If we take Trump's claims as fact. Yeah, I know, that's crazy, but bear with me.

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Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture hypersonic weapon systems at a lower cost and at faster speeds than traditional defense primes.

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Trump Slated For Podcast With Star Hush Money Witness Who Helped Convict Him

According to new reporting from MS Now, citing a Trump White House official, Donald Trump is slated to sit down for a podcast interview with none other than Michael Cohen -- his former personal attorney who served as the prosecution's star witness in the President's infamous Hush Money trial, playing a large role in convicting Trump on 34 felony counts.

According to the official, who spoke with the publication on condition of anonymity about plans not yet made public, the interview will air on Cohen's show today.

Trump and his former attorney had an infamous, public falling out over FBI raids, guilty pleas, congressional testimony, and a bombshell tell-all book, making this newfound "thaw" between the pair particularly interesting, as Donald Trump has never been known to let go of a grudge easily.

Cohen spent more than a decade serving as Donald Trump's closest personal "fixer," which culminated in the now-former attorney personally cutting the hush money check for Stormy Daniels. However, his loyalty to Trump wavered when the FBI began to seize his devices and records in 2018. Eventually, he admitted to tax evasion, campaign finance crimes, and cutting fat checks to women who claimed to have had affairs with Donald Trump.

Under oath, Cohen stated, "I regret doing things for him that I should not have. To keep the loyalty and to do the things that he asked me to do, I violated my moral compass."

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Judge Threatens Trump DOJ W/ JAIL TIME Over Epstein Files

Today we had our usual roundtable for The Epstein Update--myself, Ellie Leonard & Kait Justice, but the main topic, gleefully, was unusual. Judge Emmet Sullivan, 41-year veteran of the bench, told Trump's DOJ its lawyers would face jail time if they keep stonewalling on releasing all the horrors of the Epstein files.

Ellie was actually in the courtroom for it. When Trump DOJ lawyer/hack Andrew Block said he couldn't commit to a time frame--in his attempt to continue the cover-up--but it would be “forthcoming,” Sullivan quipped: “Christmas is forthcoming." He followed up with: "You want me to issue another order and say, I really mean it this time?”

Finally, Sullivan was clear the attorneys be forewarned he's a judge who'll “enforce legitimate judicial orders” with whatever means available, including prison. He closed with, “I’m not in a habit of blindsiding people," and have "absolutely no desire to go down that road again,” But he also said that they had better be prepared that prison time for contempt was "not a threat. That's a promise."

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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

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The Trump Kids Are Dodging Process Servers In Their Daddy's Lawsuit

The BBC wholeheartedly believes that Donald Trump's children -- namely his eldest daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared and his eldest son Don Jr. -- have "personal knowledge" about the President that's relevant to fighting the lawsuit the President has lodged against the British network. Still, the Trump kids are making it clear they won't do things the easy way.

The sitting President of the United States is currently embroiled in a defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation in connection with the network's 2024 documentary on the January 6th Capitol insurrection that aired in the UK. Trump claims defamation, arguing that the BBC spliced together parts of his infamous J6 speech.

The broadcaster did, in fact, combine two parts of Trump's speech.

In one segment of his speech, Trump told the crowd, "I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down."

He added just a few minutes later, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol."

In their documentary, the BBC edited the footage of Trump's speech to say, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you." They then included the line from the end of Trump's 55-minute speech, where he told the mob of supporters to "fight like hell."

"We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore," Trump said in his J6 speech.

The BBC has apologized for its editing but maintains that the edits are far from defamatory.

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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.

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TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.

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Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories and reasoning behind their favorite music. Editors will be using the feature, too, on top playlists like RapCaviar and others.

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Higgsfield raises $400M Series B, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months to $5.4B

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

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Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

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How Trump Officials Used The Pretti Shooting To Target The Left

“These are the actions of an authoritarian state,” said US Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Thursday regarding new reports of a broad investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into numerous left-wing groups in Minnesota earlier this year, in the wake of Border Patrol agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti at a protest against the agency’s anti-immigration crackdown.

As The New York Times reported, days after Pretti was killed in the street as he tried to help a woman who had been violently pushed by the agents, the DHS office in St. Paul opened an investigation into groups including the climate-focused Sunrise Movement, major labor groups like the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Democratic Socialists of America, and a collective called Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN).

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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

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Fox Flacks Roll Lamest Attack Yet To Defend Trump Mistreatment Of Troops

The liars on Fox not "news" resorted to tired attacks on Sen. Richard Blumenthal to pretend the horrid conditions the service members on the USS Lincoln are experiencing aren't really happening.

As we've already discussed here, things are going so badly with Trump's Iran war that we've seen multiple troops throwing themselves overboard in a desperate effort to end their horrific deployment. And it's not just the USS Lincoln.

As The Meidas Touch Network just reported: Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships:

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service members across multiple ships and even multiple branches. Taken together, they paint a picture of a crisis that extends well beyond a single carrier. All sources below are being kept anonymous to protect them and their loved ones from retaliation.

Go read the rest of their report, which details the conditions our service members are dealing with that they've documented.

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Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

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Wife Of Service Member Trapped On USS Lincoln Shreds Trump

The wife of a US service member responded to Trump's callous statement this weekend, where he basically told everyone trapped on that ship to pound sand.

After playing a clip of Trump, when asked if the deployment was too long, saying, “No, no, no. Not nearly long enough,” CNN's Jake Tapper asked the wife to respond. Tapper told the audience that they were keeping her and her husband's identity a secret, which is good, because you know Trump and Whiskey Pete will be trying to retaliate against anyone they can identify that is brave enough to speak out about what's going on.

Here's the exchange via CNN, where she rightfully ripped Trump:

TAPPER: Thank you so much for joining us. What is your husband saying about conditions on the ship?

USS LINCOLN SERVICE MEMBER'S WIFE: My husband is appalled at the conditions on this ship. This is not his first appointment. This is not his first time being out there. And he is saying that it is the worst deployment that he's ever been on. And he also says that his shipmates say the same.

The food is appalling, but the food's been appalling the whole time. I think that the food on these ships are always pretty bad, but it's more -- it's not just the quality, it's the quantity, it's the rationing. The portions are awful. So it's really—it's really not good.

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Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives

Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.

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Everyone Predicted Blanche Would Protect Trump's IRS Deal; He Didn't Wait A Week

Attorney General Todd Blanche wasted no time. The day after his swearing-in, his Justice Department filed a brief backing Trump's private lawyers in their effort to overturn a federal judge's sanctions order — an order that had put Trump's IRS settlement in serious jeopardy.

That settlement, struck in May, gave Trump, his family members, and his businesses protection from IRS audits in exchange for dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams threw the deal into question in July, sanctioning Trump's legal team for fraud on the court and issuing a gag order barring any reference to the settlement in official proceedings.

The move tracks almost exactly what Democrats predicted during Blanche's contentious confirmation fight. Sen. Cory Booker warned from the floor that Blanche would become Trump's sword against his adversaries and protection against scrutiny, while Sen. Adam Schiff argued Blanche would serve Trump's interests rather than the public's.

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Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

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IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

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Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer

The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.

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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

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Jeanine Pirro Is Up To Something Weird Amid Drama With Donald Trump

It hasn't even been two weeks since Jeanine Pirro effectively spit directly in Donald Trump's eyeball by dropping the federal vandalism charges he was championing against former Olympian David Hearn for picking up a chunk of paint out of his ridiculous Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, leaving the President positively enraged and her job hanging in Limbo.

Now, Jeanine Pirro is up to something weird.

According to a new report from the Washington Post, the former Fox News talking head turned United States attorney for the District of Columbia has suddenly begun to impanel a special grand jury in Washington, D.C., leading people to wonder just what in the Hell she's up to now.

Special grand juries are particularly rare and differ from a typical grand jury in that they can release a report that could potentially reveal critical information about the subject of an investigation, even if no one is actually brought to trial in the case they're overseeing.

The fact that she's pulling a special grand jury together at all is enough to raise eyebrows in and of itself. But to make matters even more bizarre, no one seems to know who Jeanine Pirro is targeting here.

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NIH Director Spanked For Blaming Biden For COVID Vax Misinformation

During a lengthy interview on Face the Nation, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was continually fact checked when he lied and said President Biden was at fault for eroding public trust on vaccines by the public at large during the COVID pandemic.

The debate took off when Bhattacharya discussed honoring Officer Rose, who was killed by a vaccine denier during a shooting at the CDC.

FTN host Margaret Brennan brought up the shooter's father, who said "he was brainwashed about the COVID vaccine and thought it was making him suicidal."

Bhattacharya wanted no part of that discussion. He started blaming Biden when Brennan jumped in.

BRENNAN: The Trump administration officials.

BHATTACHARYA: No, I mean, I mean like Biden. So Biden, uh, for instance,

BRENNAN: It began under the Trump administration.

BHATTACHARYA: The Biden administration censored me, right? They censored, they've sent out, uh, uh, direct attacks on people who disagreed on, on, on the COVID on, on sort of whether the COVID vaccine, uh, stopped him,

BRENNAN: RFK Jr called the COVID vaccine the deadliest vaccine ever made. That is misinformation and we're not being clear about that. And I think that is dangerous.

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Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. 

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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym

An OpenClaw agent hacked into a gym's reservation system to bump its human boss higher on a class' waitlist. And the tech industry took notice.

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Insurrectionists Sue The Federal Government For Entrapment

Twelve J6 insurrectionists, including Oath Keeper Roberto Minuto, have filed a lawsuit against the federal government for one million dollars each, claiming that the whole insurrection was "a trap" to give it "the appearance of a riot."

According to the Ticktin Law Group, the law firm representing the dirty dozen, the government was hatching the plan to entrap people for months:

"Long before January 6th, in fact, going back at least to September of 2020," the filing says, conspirators held Zoom meetings and plotted "to turn a peaceful protest of the conservative J6ers...into the appearance of a riot."

"Those seditionists...actually plotted to break some of the windows of the Capitol Building so that their compatriots and foreign participants would enter the Capitol Building to unlock and open the doors of the Capitol so that the anticipated protestors outside would be herded into the Capitol Building," the complaint says.

The complaint also states that an unidentified "instigator," described only as wearing a red MAGA cap with the tag still attached, was the person who broke the first window to gain entrance into the Capitol.

The complaint cites Trump's pardons and commutations throughout as the basis for their demand. However, the report does not indicate whether they acknowledge that Trump was President at the time that this alleged plot was concocted and executed.

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Mike Rogers Releases Hostage Video Calling El-Sayed The Other

Mike Rogers released this creepy video of him and his wife, looking like an angry HOA MAGA Karen, both of them seemingly offended that Michigan could soon choose Dr Abdul El-Sayed instead of these two rich, entitled Floridians. The obligatory Islamophobia and racism seem to be Rogers' only campaign strategy at this point.

"They look like Lifetime movie villains," quipped one internet user.

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Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers released a campaign message on Friday appealing directly to Democratic voters after Michigan Democrats nominated Abdul El-Sayed for Senate earlier this week.

El-Sayed, a former public health official, narrowly defeated establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. Backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), El-Sayed will now face Rogers in November for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).

Rogers sought to capitalize on divisions within the Democratic Party, arguing that voters dissatisfied with the primary outcome should consider supporting his campaign.

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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

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'We Actually Like Each Other': El-Sayed Whacks Trump After Lame Attack On His Wife

Michigan nominee for the US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, hit back at Trump after he posted a nasty Islamophobic dog-whistle on Truth Social this weekend:

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on a Democratic Senate nominee and his wife spurred a wave of rebuke on Sunday by critics who called him a racist and a convicted felon.

Trump took to Truth Social the night before to share an image comparing himself and First Lady Melania Trump to Abdul El-Sayed and his wife, Sarah Jukaku.

The image includes the caption complete with misspelling, "Two VERY DIFFERENT America's," and shows Trump and his wife in formal attire alongside El-Sayed and Jukaku, who wears a traditional Islamic headscarf.

The image also uses El-Sayed’s full name – Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed – similar to how Trump often refers to former President Barack Obama as Barack Hussein Obama.

AES was asked about Trump's post during an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, and hit Trump and his loveless marriage, along with the fact that both of them could care less about the working class in America in response.

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

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GOP Senator Promotes Crypto Bill Which Possibly Benefits Human Traffickers

Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott took to Fox News on Thursday to push a cryptocurrency bill opposed by a host of organizations opposed to human trafficking. Scott argued that the legislation should be passed by the Senate because it would help mothers.

The Senate, where Scott currently chairs the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, is currently considering the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which is meant to accelerate the use of cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Concerns have been raised that the Clarity Act would allow crypto companies and those who use cryptocurrencies to evade traditional government oversight, including people involved in human trafficking and illicit arms sales.

The law is backed by the crypto industry, who have been lavishing the Trump administration and other elected officials, from both parties, with campaign donations and support.

Appearing on Fox Business, Scott positioned the bill as a boon to mothers instead of big business and illegal industries.

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Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.

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Trump Blames GOP Wipeout On Everyone Except The Guy Polling At 35%

There is a blue wave, hopefully a f*cking tsunami, about to hit the midterms, which are right around the corner. Republicans know it's coming, but the leader of their party isn't so sure. According to Punchbowl News, the President still believes that Republicans will keep control of the House and Senate after the 2026 midterms.

Still, if there is a wipeout, Trump said it's not his fault. Nothing ever is his fault; ask him!

Trump insists the upcoming midterm bloodbath for Republicans has nothing to do with him — despite polling at 35 percent approval. In a Punchbowl interview released Friday, he told Jake Sherman that voters are furious with the GOP, just not with him personally: "They're angry at Republicans, but they're not angry at me."

His logic: since he's not on the ballot in November, why would his numbers matter? "If I am not running, will those people go out and vote?" he asked, conceding plenty of MAGA voters are "very angry at Republicans."

He also had notes on his own party's temperament, complaining that Republicans are too polite for their own good — "much more gentle than the Democrats," as he put it.

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Creepy Republican Drops House Re-Election Bid

After “much prayer and reflection," the 65-year-old married Congressman decided that being censured for pestering young staffers for sex wasn't worth it anymore and has decided to call it a day. About 30 Republican leaders in NC-11 will pick their new nominee.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled North Carolina Republican congressman Chuck Edwards withdrew from his reelection campaign on Wednesday, two days after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured for unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides in his office.

The 65-year-old Edwards, who is serving his second term, said that he made the decision to drop his reelection bid after “much prayer and reflection” and that he would complete the current term.

The Ethics Committee recommended the censure, an act registering its deep disapproval of a lawmaker’s conduct that does not meet the threshold for expulsion, on Monday. The panel highlighted numerous examples of actions it considered improper, including Edwards providing the young women with lavish and recurrent gifts, making comments regarding their appearance and dress, inviting them to intimate dinners and vacations, and sending notes regarding his affection.

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Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation

Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines. It's backed by a long list of well-known investors.

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Fetterman Had To Be Reminded Where He Lives Again

It seems Senator John Fetterman has not only forgotten what party he belongs to, but what country he lives in, as well.

But don't fret; Jon Stewart was happy to remind him.

In a teaser that was released ahead of an upcoming episode of Stewart's The Weekly Show, we got a sobering glimpse into exactly where John Fetterman's loyalties lie, in case that was somehow still questionable for anyone, anywhere, ever.

Over the last few months, the highly controversial Pennsylvania Democrat has made repeated threats to leave the Democratic Party over its lack of support for Israel. To that, we say, what are you waiting for? Don't threaten us with a good time.

But I digress.

Back in mid-July, Fetterman made an appearance on Fox News where he made it crystal clear that Israel is his "red line," telling the host at the time, "Look at the people who are winning these primaries right now. They are not just, ‘I’m just pro-Palestinian. I’m deeply anti, anti-Israel.’"

Stewart took it upon himself to prod Fetterman a little deeper about his fellow Democrats, asking, "You could agree with them 90%, but Israel is the red line?"

"Absolutely," Fetterman answered. "I can’t ever turn my back to Israel after where it’s at."

And that's when Stewart locked in for a quick lil geography lesson:

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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

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Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.

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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

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Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

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US Troops Hit With BIZARRE Request As Trump Fails To Find A Way Out Of His War

Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran is now well into its sixth month, with no conceivable end in sight, and it appears that US Central Command has grown desperate for ideas, now calling on American troops to brainstorm "creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran."

CNN broke reporting on the truly bizarre and unsettling request that was sent out to US military analysts last week.

According to a source familiar with the message, a CENTCOM intelligence branch officer pushed out a message reading, "We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran," to United States troops.

This unsettling news breaks just one day after Donald Trump stood aboard Air Force One and told reporters and the American public that an end to the war was underway, claiming that negotiations with Iran would begin "tomorrow afternoon," with a specific focus on ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz was reopened expeditiously.

Trump further claimed that he had scrapped his plans for what he personally described as "the biggest attack since World War II" after desperate appeals from Iran as well as regional allies.

"Now what we’re doing is we’re talking to them in the form of a negotiation," Trump told reporters over the weekend. "It begins tomorrow afternoon."

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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

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Kevin Hassett Praises The Miracle Of The Orange Clown Economy

Grinning idiot Kevin Hasset says, “I don’t think any of us think” and then some other stuff, so he gets it partially correct:

Hassett: "I don't think that any of us think there's any reason at all why US debt should be downgraded"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-29T18:18:26.163Z

Good lord, the man is innumerate.

We’ve been in Reagan’s voodoo economics for like, 50 years and have always had a deficit (except for when Bubba, er, Bill was prznint and raised taxes on rich people) and every time that a Republican is running the joint they make the deficit worse by a) cutting rich people’s taxes and b) going on a Pentagon shopping spree.

This administration is different because The Orange Clown is also running a smash-and-grab operation.

So of course the debt should be downgraded: they keep grabbing more Ameros for themselves and bringing-in less to the treasury.

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YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

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Elon Musk Plans To Buy Susan Collins

Nazi-enthusiast Elon Musk has decided to throw in $100 – 120 million to help Republican candidates in the upcoming midterms, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins.

“The precise spending amounts could reportedly change,” the Portland Press Herald says, but Musk’s America PAC “is planning a field operation revolving around knocking on doors to reach voters.”

You have to wonder how glad the Collins campaign is about the world’s richest man inserting himself into a close race in which affordability and income inequality are front and center. Collins probably has some concerns – which she will probably ignore. The Herald also reported that she “had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves.” I'll bet she's gotten over those concerns by now.

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VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why

New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.

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Fox Host Asks Trump If Iranians Have Food And Water, Trump Hits On Her Instead

As Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran steamrolls into its sixth month, with absolutely no conceivable end in sight, one Fox News host attempted to ask the President a starkly serious question: Are the people in Iran okay?

Trump called into Fox for a phone interview this week, where Dana Perino, a co-host on Fox News' The Five and former White House Press Secretary to George W. Bush, pressed him on the living conditions of Iranian civilians amid the ongoing war.

"I think it is alarming that we have not been able to see or hear from any of the Iranian people, and I imagine that is because their internet is shut down, and I think there is some general worry about them. Obviously, their government treats them terribly and killed tens of thousands of them in January," Perino said. "I would never ask you to tell us something that is classified, but do you have any insight as to how they are doing? Do they have drinking water? Do they have food? It's upsetting."

Before Perino was even able to finish her sentence, Trump was already beginning to interject with his typical, "Right... Right... I do. I do."

His interruptions were rude enough, but the more he talked, the worse it got.

In fact, "I do" was the only semblance of an actual response to the question he gave.

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CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

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Duffy Finds A New Threat To America - DEI Bike Lanes

Trans Secretary Sean Duffy doesn't have time to worry about plane crashes. He's too busy traveling all over the country _ on the taxpayers' dime, mind you - filming reality TV shows and looking for real threats to America, like rainbow crosswalks.

And sure enough, Duffy has done it again!

Earlier this month, he announced his crusade against DEI bike paths:

But Duffy is doing more than just diverting funds from Biden-era projects. He has also ordered DOT staff to scour the agency's websites and remove all mentions of bike paths, traffic cameras, and other tools proven to improve road safety. He even forced them to take down valuable tools like the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool.

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Trump WH Asks Supreme Court Shadow Docket To Limit Mail Ballots

Republicans and Donald Trump will do ANYTHING to cheat in the midterm elections (99 days from today!). Their latest dirty trick is to try to have the Supreme Court allow them to limit mail-in voting through the secretive "shadow docket."

For those unaware, the Shadow Docket is a fast-track way to have an emergency ruled on without hearings. It handles "urgent" requests, like stays of execution, emergency injunctions and administrative stays. There are no oral arguments (ie, the other side doesn't get to present); cases are decided literally behind closed doors without public hearings. The justices review short written arguments, and often the decision is made in a brief and unsigned ruling.

It is a DIRTY way of trying to squeeze something by, so of course Donald Trump is doing it in another attempt to put his fat little thumb on the scale for the November midterms.

The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to give its blessing to a completely crazy executive order to place "major new restrictions" on mail-in ballots prior to the midterm elections.

Just last week a Massachusetts appeals court kept in place a block on the order, stating that it would “sow confusion” and “threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.”

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Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures

Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-California ) has proposed a bill that would direct federal regulators to establish minimum national safety standards for autonomous vehicle operators.

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Trump Is Going To LOSE IT Over What His Allies Are Doing Behind Closed Doors

Midterm elections are closing in like a dark cloud on the Grand Old Party, and many of Donald Trump's own allies seem to be attempting to cut off the hand to spare the body behind closed doors.

According to new reporting from MS NOW White House correspondent Jake Traylor, on Sunday's episode of Alex Witt Reports, many of Donald Trump's own close allies are going behind the President's back, urging Republican candidates to publicly break with the President on the subject of the war in Iran, if they want any hope of securing a victory in their impending elections.

Yesterday, a truly damning poll went public, shedding a vicious light on just how deeply the vein of unpopularity regarding the Iran War runs among Americans, ahead of November, when Republicans will face their most dire and crucial election in modern history as they desperately claw and grasp to maintain their slim control over both branches of Congress.

The enlightening new poll from CBS/YouGov found that Trump's war with Iran maintains a 65 percent disapproval rating, with 66 percent believing that Trump's five-month, ongoing war with Iran is going "somewhat" or "very badly." Two-thirds believe that the war should end immediately, while 60 percent believe that the President is basically lying, in an attempt to make things sound "better than they really are."

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Paramount Temporarily Halts Merger With Warner Brothers And CNN

It looks like the right-wing media takeover has hit a speed bump, at least when it comes to Paramount and Warner Brothers rolling into one...under the ownership of Trump friend David Ellison.

The Washington Post is reporting that Paramount agreed to "halt" its merger with WB until "as late as July 2027" due to a major antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 Democratic states. They are also "facing a challenge from the Writers Guild of America, which represents many screenwriters and journalists, as well as a group of consumers in Northern California."

So, 3 separate challenges, it appears.

The deal, if it goes through, would be a HUGE merger of Hollywood streaming services and media/news. It would include HBO, Paramount, CBS and CNN. And it would be under the leadership of David Ellison, an ally of the Trump administration who would absolutely push right-wing propaganda.

A federal judge on Monday "temporarily paused the merger, ruling that the states had raised significant enough questions about the consolidation that the deal would bring about." Just five days later, both parties agreed to delay the merger for at least 12 months. But the merger could go forward sooner than 12 months if the judge rules on the merits of the case faster.

Paramount spun it in a statement:

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Trump Suffers Yet Another Loss In His War On Voting

On Saturday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit blocked Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order. A lower court had already blocked the order after a lawsuit brought by 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia. But Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal attorney cosplaying as the country’s acting attorney general, seems to have no limit for spending taxpayer money to please Donald Trump, in this case by persevering in the effort to make voting harder and less trusted.

Democracy Docket explains: “The Trump administration has ordered DHS to run states’ voter files through a flawed database system called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), which is supposed to be used solely for verifying eligibility for government benefits. Election experts have shown that the SAVE system has regularly misidentified eligible voters.”

“Trump’s order also required the US Postal Service to only deliver ballots to voters on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list,” The Guardian noted.

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Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

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Could Barron Trump Be Subpoenaed Over His Communication With Andrew Tate?

A Democratic congresswoman, Rep. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, has publicly called on the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to issue a subpoena to Barron Trump over his extensive communication with Andrew and Tristan Tate. The Tate brothers were just arrested 6 days ago in Miami on dozens of new charges, including CSAM, so it is not shocking that Democrats want to investigate just how deeply the Tate brothers are influencing the Trump administration.

Ansari put out a statement on social media on Thursday:

“Andrew and Tristan Tate have been indicted on horrific charges of rape, human trafficking, and the exploitation of minors. [House Oversight Committee] Chair @RepJamesComer must swiftly open an investigation into the Tate brothers’ coordination and extensive relationships with members of the President’s orbit, including his son, Barron Trump."

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Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law

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The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

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Sen. Daines: Having Dinner With JD Vance Is Enough Oversight On Iran War

Sen. Steve Daines exposed his ignorance on the US Constitution, budgetary matters and Congressional oversight when he told Fox Business he will vote against an upcoming Senate bill to limit Trump's war powers claiming it violated the principles of the Founding Fathers.

The House just passed a war powers bill "by a vote of 214-208 lawmakers in the House passed a war powers resolution to curb the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, ahead of the lower chamber’s August recces."

Trump supporter Stuart Varney asked the Senator from Montana if the Senate should also "exercise some more control over the war?"

Sen. Daines claimed having dinner with JD Vance counted as Congressional oversight and he will vote against any such bill.

His response was inexcusable for a Senator who sits on the powerful Senate Finance Committee.

DAINES: Stewart, we always have the ability to exercise oversight.

Just look at yesterday. You had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Cain, in front of the Appropriations Committee, you've got Secretary Hegseth, you've got Secretary Rubio, who are in routine contact with members of the U.S. Senate, so we're always engaged.

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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

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Trump Is Already Thinking About Starting His Next War

There seems to be no end to the number of people “pro-life” Donald Trump and his minions would love to kill. The latest locale is the West African country of Mali.

The Washington Post got the scoop about the Trump administration’s deliberations over military action targeting an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as JNIM. The Post goes into great detail about the situation there, which does indeed seem to be quite serious. “Mali, a landlocked nation of nearly 25 million, has in recent years been plagued by violence by Islamist militant groups … particularly JNIM,” The Post explained. They “have grown increasingly powerful, turning Mali and its neighbors in the Sahel into the world’s center for terrorism.”

But is this really a threat to the United States? Or is this really an extortion attempt on behalf of Trump’s cronies? “When the White House was asked for comment, an administration official would not disclose whether the president intended to move forward with military strikes but said the United States has been urging governments in North and West Africa “’to purchase U.S. equipment and services to support their war efforts against the terrorists,’” The Post reported.

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Jack Reed Rips Pete Hegseth For Using Biden As An Excuse: 'Gross Negligence'

Pete Hegseth got blistered in the Senate Appropriations Committee today by Sen. Jack Reed and others, who refused to hear his editorializing on Trump's greatness, instead exposing his gross negligence over the war and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration is demanding another $87.6 billion to restock Pentagon resources following their bombing raids on Iran.

Jack Reed gives a master class on how to calmly and systematically demolish an unqualified MAGA cultist in Trump's cabinet.

Reed started off by asking Whiskey Pete if he was prepared for the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed during a conflict since the Pentagon had been planning for an event like this for decades.

Hegseth tried to blame President Biden for his screw-ups, but Reed would have none of it.

REED: Were you aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed, and obviously sinking their ships has not affected their ability to effectively close the Strait.

HEGSETH: We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration, so their navy was affected in expeditious ways in the past.

REED: Listen, we're talking about a war you started, not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel as a result of Iranian actions, so your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very, very obvious excuse for what I think is probably, as you described, so often gross negligence.

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

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Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory

Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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Where's The Brain Bleach: Hunter Biden Paints Mental Image Of 'Really Kinky' Ted Cruz

In an appearance on progressive pundit Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast, Hunter Biden got particularly candid when it came to his thoughts, feelings, and theories on Texas MAGA Senator Ted Cruz's sex life.

According to former President Joe Biden's controversial second son, he's unsure as to whether Ted Cruz is gay or not, but he's all but certain that the Texas Republican is into some "really kinky" stuff, going so far as to imply that there may even be animals involved behind the (thankfully) closed doors of Cruz's private life.

The rather bizarre conversation came to fruition after Welch asked for Biden's take on the "Top 3 MAGA laptops" he would like to see publicly revealed -- a play on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop scandal that still to this day plays rent-free on an infinite loop inside the hollow brains of the MAGA movement.

Hunter couldn't answer fast enough: "Ted Cruz, of course. 100%."

"Ugh, do you get a gaydar ping from Ted?" Welch asked the former First Son.

"No, you know what I get, I get a really, really kinky weird sh*t-type thing," Biden answered, before going in for the kill shot: "It may be gay, it may not be gay, it may be a little bit of this, it may be a little bit of that, but it may involve animals, too."

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Trump Doesn’t Let Troop Deaths Keep Him From Golfing

Donald Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran has claimed the lives of two more Americans, with a third missing, as I write this on Saturday afternoon.

The New York Times reported about this latest development in President Peace Prize’s war: “The deaths could prompt fierce retaliation, which would come on top of an already intensifying conflict. The United States and Iran expanded the scope and intensity of their attacks overnight, striking critical infrastructure sites that included a power station and water facilities, with no sign of an off-ramp to end the fighting.”

Funny, it was just two weeks ago that Trump declared Iran was “totally defeated militarily.” He made the same claim in April. But maybe Grampa Trump is having trouble remembering which killing spree is which in his “pro-life” administration.

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'People Could Die': WH 'Scrambled' To Stop Trump From Naming Names In Election Speech

According to a deeply unsettling new report from POLITICO, White House staffers were left "scrambling" to calm President Trump down and keep him restrained and on script during his big election fraud speech, after Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte took it upon himself to get the president "all spun up," only to tuck his tail right before Donald took the stage after he realized "people could die."

Inside sources with direct knowledge on the matter told POLITICO that Pulte was heavily pushing for Trump to publicly name the names of multiple intelligence analysts who stand accused by the Trump Administration of purposefully hiding "election interference" from the president.

Unsurprisingly, the mere notion of this move sent Donald Trump into a rabid tizzy, with sources describing him as "all spun up," ready to drop names like bombs from the stage, as senior White House officials "scrambled" to regain control of the situation before Pulte and Trump popped a Genie out of a bottle that could never be put back again.

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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

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Secret Service Shielding Donald Trump Jr From BBC Subpoena: Filing

The Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation disclosed the blockade in a filing that accused the Justice Department of a conflict of interest — fighting the same subpoena in court that a fellow executive branch agency was stopping on the ground.

President Donald Trump sued the BBC in December, seeking $10 billion over a Panorama documentary that spliced together two portions of his Jan. 6, 2021 Ellipse speech — separated by nearly an hour — to make it appear he had directly urged supporters to "fight like hell" and storm the Capitol. The president claims the edit defamed him and damaged his brand.

ALSO READ: Mike Johnson battered in Dem victory speech as key GOP bill crashes in House

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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

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Democrats Demand Voter Fraud Investigation Into Ken Paxton

As I’ve previously reported, a blockbuster investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune recently found that crooked Ken Paxton voted six times in the past two years at an address where he almost certainly didn’t live.

The irony is that Paxton, the Texas attorney general now running for the U.S. Senate, fancies himself as the Eliot Ness of voter fraud prosecution. In February, he declared his office “will stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity” and announced the creation of a tip line.

The subject must have been top of mind.

On Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state, asking the secretary to investigate whether Paxton committed election fraud when he voted in the May primary runoff. The reporting found strong evidence that Paxton lived in Denton County with his mistress each of the six times he voted in Collin County,

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Republicans Discover Wildfires Are Bad, Blame The Country That's Currently On Fire

Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno posted on Xitter that he plans to introduce a bill next week to sanction Canada and their government officials for this atrocity. The backdrop: smoke from wildfires burning across northwestern Ontario and northern Minnesota has pushed air quality in Toledo above 600, a new historic high for the city, and Ohio's EPA issued a statewide air quality advisory.

Moreno's office argued that Canada's government failed to invest in wildfire prevention, such as forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, and stronger enforcement against arson. That follows a letter from Michigan Republicans earlier in the week making a similar case — accusing Canada of mismanaging forest maintenance and offering "excuses instead of results," and warning "we are done accepting apologies in place of action... if Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people."

Canadian PM Mark Carney didn't respond directly to the criticism but took a swipe back, saying "climate change is everyone's responsibility — truly everyone's — including the United States."

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Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

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Border Czar Threatens More Bloodshed, Warns Dems To 'Shut Their Mouth'

Within a week of each other, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, became the third and fourth people killed by federal immigration agents this year — the latest sign that Donald Trump's aggressive deportation push has brought not just arrests and removals, but violence and death along with it.

So, of course, Trump's border czar Tom Homan dialed up the violent rhetoric on Laura Ingraham's show toward Democrats who are appalled at the needless murders.

"But it all goes back to the Dems, who want to continually attack ICE, and tell people to evade them, tell people don't comply, tell people to resist, and tell people ICE isn't a real law enforcement agency," he said. "You and I talked about this a year and a half ago, Laura."

"I said if the hateful rhetoric didn't stop, there would be bloodshed," Homan continued. "And I'm saying it right now."

"There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted," he added.

Yeah, that tough guy routine isn't going to work coming from a guy who accepted a $50,000 cash payment in 2024 from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives. That bribe was to help businesses win contracts during a second Trump administration.

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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)

Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series "Mafia," has joined the firm as a partner.

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Grandpa Needs An Ambien: Trump Goes Ham On Truth Social In Wee Hours Of The Night

Donnie Boy is clearly in desperate need of a glass of warm milk, an Ambien, or an exorcism after the sitting President of the United States went on a Truth Social bender for nearly 3 hours in the wee hours of the night, comparing himself to Lightning McQueen.

It's certainly not unusual for Donald Trump to spend his nights posting up a storm on his Truth Social echo chamber. But despite having a regular baseline of unhinged and bizarre, he managed to get a little extra last night, as he made a whopping 19 posts between the hours of midnight and 2:30 a.m., ranging in topics from the defense budget to international relations to his scammy Trump Accounts for children to a truly absurd video portraying himself as a cartoon race car.

In what appears to be an attempt to paint himself as the hero of all existence, the President posted a video featuring a rousing speech by Lightning McQueen in the Disney movie Cars, overlaid with a montage of images of Trump going about his presidential duties.

"Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers," the voice of actor Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen bellows in the Disney movie monologue, playing over photos of Donald Trump. "I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning."

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E. Jean Carroll Trolls Trump With Public Victory Lap Over $5.6M Payment

E. Jean Carroll did not go gentle into that good night.

She toppled statues, took scissors to the closet full of Versace, cleared the contents of the desk top in one dramatic fell swoop of the arm, and kicked the trashcan over on her way out the door.

Now, she's taking her well-deserved victory lap with a public "Haha! Better luck next time!" in the sitting US President's face.

Literal years after E. Jean Carroll won her civil sex abuse case against Donald J. Trump, the American author and advice columnist finally received a chunk of what the washed-up reality TV star-turned-dictator owed her.

Trump has spent more than 3 years fighting that verdict against him via every avenue he could conceive, only to find himself brutally shot down at every turn -- even by his own carefully stacked Supreme Court. The buck had to stop somewhere, as a judge finally ordered the release of the $5.6 million Trump owed to Carroll from escrow.

After the coins finally landed in her account, Carroll took to X with a simple but pointed post. Captioning a screenshot of the New York Times article that reported on the release of the funds, she quoted the famous first words astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke to NASA's mission control after he and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in 1969: "The eagle has landed."

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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

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The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone

Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."

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Videos Show ICE Agents Walking Beside Car Before Shooting And Dumping Body On Ground

Videos from a fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Biddeford, Maine, show agents walking beside a slow-rolling car, undercutting the government's claim that the driver tried to use it as a weapon.

The victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, according to the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition. He was shot dead Monday morning.

A second video shared by journalist Sam Stein shows ICE agents removing the man's body from the car and dropping it headfirst on the ground. He appeared to have been handcuffed.

The agents involved in the shooting were not wearing body cameras, according to the Portland Press Herald.

"Objectively, this is a video of a car slowly turning and ICE agents walking alongside it," Stein, who shared the first video on X, wrote. "Hard to understand how we could end up with ANOTHER deadly shooting here."

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Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

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Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.

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Vance Has A Cringe-Inducing Marie Antoinette Moment

J Divan Vance once again demonstrated how he has a complete disconnect from what's going on in the country with a Marie Antoinette moment. While Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to choose between food, medicine, and gasoline, Vance is bragging about how posh his life is:

Vance was speaking with Mike Rowe on his podcast when he couldn't contain himself:

Like, my life is - dude - totally transformed.

I don't go to the grocery store anymore. People go to the grocery store for me. Most of my meals, like, when I cook a meal - it's like, I love to cook, actually, big baker. I like to cook for my kids as a special occasion, but I don't have to cook anymore because I've got an army of people who are willing to like cook me my food. My life is so weird. I fly around on a 757, no more TSA lines for for me and the kids. It's so weird, but it can become the sort of thing that if you internalize it, you start to be an entitled asshole.

Oh, wow, J Divan, dude, like that ship has totally sailed, dude. I can think of only one person who is a bigger entitled asshole than you are, and his initials are President Pedo.

Vance doesn't even grasp that this "army of people" he thinks just live to cook for him are actually employees, most of whom are probably getting paid shit wages, to serve his pampered ass. Trust me, dude, no one likes you enough to put up with you for free.

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This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja’s latest slushie machine builds on the popularity of the original […]

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Trump's CDC Stopped Monitoring A Parasite. Guess What's Spreading Now.

A nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea is currently underway, and it's tied to a parasite the CDC quietly dropped from federal surveillance back in July 2025. That timing lines up almost exactly with the Trump administration's broader gutting of health and science agencies under the "government efficiency" banner, HuffPost reports.

A parasite called Cyclospora has sickened over 1,000 people across 29 states, with Michigan getting hit the worst of all. The CDC would probably have caught this sooner — if it hadn't stopped watching for it.

The agency's FoodNet program used to track eight foodborne pathogens, until that surveillance simply stopped. Cyclospora, Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia were tracked. But in July 2025, right around the time the Trump administration started gutting federal health agencies and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out scientists and researchers, that surveillance ended.

What's left of FoodNet now tracks exactly two things: Salmonella and E. coli. Everything else, apparently, is on the honor system.

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Kevin McCarthy Continues To Beclown Himself On Fox Over Platner

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's hypocrisy was on full display this Friday as he demanded apologies from liberals who supported Platner and "overlooked the womanizing" before the rape accusations.

He made a fool of himself this Monday when he made the ridiculous claim that Republicans "walk away" from their bad candidates during an appearance on Jesse Watters' show.

He was back at it again with John Roberts on America Reports, attacking the potential candidates that might replace Platner, which prompted Roberts to read from a portion of a Wall Street Journal article claiming they'll be making a huge mistake if they nominate another liberal to take Platner's place.

Which was followed by this nonsense by McCarthy:

ROBERTS: I mean, what's the problem with a moderate candidate in the state of Maine?

MCCARTHY: Well, see, it's kind of what I raised earlier. It's the weakness of the style of leadership that we have in Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

They sit back, and then the socialists, because they have more enthusiasm, they're running the tables on these individuals instead of people standing up.

And when you look at who is the real leader of the Democratic Party, it is Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani. But what you're finding is, why isn't Bernie Sanders apologizing, or Ro Khanna, for what they did?

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Trump Goon Subpoenas NYT Reporters Over Embarrassing Air Force One Story

Friday night, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, soothed Donald Trump’s ruffled feathers and petty, authoritarian ego by subpoenaing at least four New York Times reporters who had the audacity to embarrass President P***y Grabber.

The offense to Trump’s fragile fee-fees was a Times report exposing the inadequacy of his renovations to the Qatari “gift” Air Force One, the one that we, the taxpayers, are paying hundreds of millions to upgrade. Trump had claimed that he flew the old Air Force One out of Turkey last week “for old times' sake” and “so the new jet could leave early and make stops at U.S. military bases to show it off to the troops because the aircraft is ‘magnificent.’” The Times noted.

In reality, Trump flew the old plane for security reasons. “People briefed on the new plane’s capabilities, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, said the new plane does not have all the features of the older plane,” The Times reported.

Although the article doesn’t come right out and say so, it seems pretty clear that President Deal Maker was so eager to fly around in his new luxurious “gift” that he rushed the renovations and didn’t have them finished properly. Sound familiar?

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Trump Has To Fly Old AF One Out Of Turkey For Reasons

Told ya he rushed it and the plane doesn’t have all the defense bells and whistles it is supposed to have, and now that we are in a shooting war with Iran (AGAIN!), he cannot fly this thing home, hence another older AF-1 is going to pick him up. So we get to pay for the fuel X2.

The Affordability Prznint.

Anyway, here’s the dopey liar try to gild the turd:

To honor our brave men and women of the Military, we are sending the brand new, and truly spectacular, Air Force One to Mildenhall Air Force Base, in the United Kingdom, to give them a chance to tour the Aircraft – Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first. For old time’s sake, we’ll be taking the former Air Force One, from Turkey to Mildenhall, a short trip that is totally worth doing in order to give our Great Military Heroes a chance to appreciate our beautiful new addition to the Air Force Fleet! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Yeah, I’m sure that they will be thrilled to tour this thing.

OK, Congress: time to make sure he knows that this bird is not his personal toy, and if he wants to keep it, he has to pay for this $400M bribe + upgrades himself, out of his own pocket. I defy the Republicans to try to make it some sort of tribute to the Grifter-in-Chief.

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