Viewers who tuned into the Paramount+ livestream of UFC Freedom 250 on Sunday night, held to mark President Trump’s 80th birthday as well as the nation’s semiquincentennial, were treated to the surreal spectacle of mixed martial artists beating each other bloody in a massive cage installed on the White House lawn. But there was one … Read more
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
A decade ago, kratom advocates fought a surprisingly successful campaign against a proposed Drug Enforcement Administration ban that claimed the obscure Southeast Asian plant posed “an imminent hazard to public safety.” They won bipartisan allies from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul, and helped create a billion-dollar industry out of kratom, which has pain-relieving effects they … 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
Anthropic says it’s disabling two AI models it launched earlier this week, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with an export control directive it received Friday afternoon from the US government citing national security concerns. The unprecedented incident marks the latest flashpoint between Anthropic and the Trump administration. While the company says the … Read more
With his history of involvement in pro wrestling and boxing and his zeal for garish excess—the man is a failed casino impresario, after all—it makes perfect sense that Donald Trump would want to celebrate both America’s birthday and his own with UFC cage fights on the White House lawn, sponsored by Monster Energy. If there’s … Read more
President Donald Trump is enthralled with the Ultimate Fighting Championship staging an event at the White House on his birthday this weekend—in effect his present to himself, since he came up with the idea. We have the details on both the anticipated lobbying, as well as the fighting. Lobbying by the Octagon While the White … Read more
Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own efforts policing speech had gone too far and that it would relax the rules around what speech was allowed. “We have been over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate political debate and censoring too much … Read more
Tech giants must stop children in Britain from being able to send and receive nude images on their devices, or be forced to do so by law, the government said Monday. Britain’s interior ministry said it was giving companies including Apple and Google three months to introduce safety features to block children from taking and … Read more