On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance paid a visit to the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California and, as is his wont, put his foot squarely in his mouth. The “Hillbilly Elegy” author, who compared President Trump to Hitler before serving as his running mate, took it upon himself to defend Nixon’s legacy and … Read more
The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to more than 100 US organizations, including large corporations and government agencies. In a letter sent to Anthropic’s cofounder and chief compute officer Tom Brown obtained by WIRED, Commerce Secretary Howard … Read more
OpenAI is delaying the public release of its next generation of AI models, GPT-5.6, at the request of Trump’s White House, the company confirmed on Friday. OpenAI said it would first share the models with a small set of customers, which will be pre-approved by the US government. It will then work with the administration … Read more
Earlier this month I attended Vivatech, a huge tech conference in Paris. One fear dominated the discussions: the prospect of ending up stuck using American AI, trained on American values. While the US and China are locked in an AI arms race, France and Germany, which consider their engineering talent second to none, feel boxed … Read more
Leah Feiger: Yeah. Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, they introduced the Data Center Moratorium Act, which would halt the construction of new AI data centers until there were actual national safeguards. This sounds, in so many ways, like a very baked for left wing issue, but shockingly, this is pretty bipartisan. There … Read more
On June 18, Venezuela’s political transition took a surprising, if not entirely unexpected, turn. Dinorah Figuera — the president of the 2015 National Assembly, the last elected body in Venezuela that the U.S. actually recognizes — traveled to Caracas to meet with the president of the current National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez. The stated goal of … Read more
As Western leaders departed the G7 summit in Évian talking of a “strategic awakening in support of Ukraine,” the night sky over Moscow was illuminated by the fires of a burning oil refinery just nine miles from the Kremlin. This unprecedented Ukrainian drone strike on Russian territory was met in Western capitals with quiet endorsement … Read more
Leonard Cohen‘s estate made it clear that it has not authorized President Donald Trump‘s plan to use Cohen’s famed song “Hallelujah” at his Freedom 250 rally on Wednesday night. “The Leonard Cohen Estate has learned that the song ‘Hallelujah’ is to be performed at a Donald Trump rally on June 24,” read a statement posted on … Read more
Dozens of books are sure to result from the staggering events of Donald Trump‘s second term, from the president’s unprecedented grip on the media to the spectacle of America’s tech leaders kissing his ring and the constant challenges to civil liberties. One of the first major ones out of the gate is “Regime Change: Inside … Read more
Congress managed to briefly break its usual gridlock this week when the Senate agreed to pass a bipartisan housing affordability bill. The legislation was expected to have an easy journey through the House of Representatives and to the desk of Donald Trump, who is itching for a legislative win amid a series of embarrassing and … Read more