Trump administration officials concluded talks with Anthropic on Monday without lifting export controls that were imposed last week on the company’s most advanced AI models in response to jailbreaking concerns, according to three people briefed on the matter. The administration continues to believe that there are ways to disable some of the guardrails on Anthropic’s … Read more
Ian McKellen revealed at a recent film festival in Rome (via The Guardian) that he channeled his fury for Donald Trump during an action scene in “Avengers: Doomsday,” in which the 87-year-old actor returns as his iconic “X-Men” villain Magneto. The film’s directors, the Russo Brothers, instructed McKellen “to look more furious” during one scene … Read more
After throwing himself an exclusive, robber baron packed, $60 million dollar UFC birthday party at the White House, Donald Trump is giving Americans the political equivalent of socks on their birthday. The president announced Monday that this year’s July Fourth celebrations — marking the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding — will be headlined by … Read more
I t is the night before the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the White House and I am in a sticky-table sports bar somewhere in the vicinity of Washington D.C.’s Chinatown listening to a man tell me all about trading cards. I don’t know anything about trading cards, but this guy is really into them. Supposedly … Read more
Adam McKay is a big fan of Climate Defiance’s no holds barred approach to shaming fossil fuel companies and the corporations and politicians who support them. The non-profit is known for its provocative protests, which include everything from unfurling a banner stating “Eat Shit, Darren” at an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods to disrupting the White House Correspondents … Read more
Laverne Cox recently told The Guardian while promoting her new book “Transcendent: A Memoir” that 90% of her income has been lost over the last few years due to Donald Trump administration’s attacks on gender ideology and DEI. The “Orange Is the New Black” Emmy winner noted her corporate speaking engagements have dried up in … Read more
Patrick Bewley’s X feed was normally filled with posts about leather three-ways and clips of poolhouse erotica. The gay OnlyFans star, known as Daddy Patrick, had decided to get into the adult industry at age 60 and in under two years his followers on X swelled to 132,000. But in April, his feed suddenly became … Read more
The US government is quietly planning to allow a rule outlining the standards for federal data center usage and operations, known as the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA), to expire, according to sources who spoke to WIRED. Neither Congress nor the Trump administration appears to be making significant moves to protect or extend the … Read more
At no point has the Trump presidency more closely resembled a scene out of “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge’s 2006 satire about a Philistine society that abhors intellectualism, than on Sunday night, as the White House played host to UFC Freedom 250 — a series of MMA brawls on the South Lawn ostensibly meant to commemorate the … Read more
Perhaps fearful of abandonment, or of being treated as a mere “bargaining chip” in negotiations with Beijing, Taiwan has worked diligently to ingratiate itself with President Donald Trump’s inner circle. Just last month, Taipei hired Checkmate Government Relations, a firm whose founder, Ches McDowell, enjoys close ties to Donald Trump Jr. and access to the … Read more