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Speaking of tariff refunds, here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — each of which have or are...

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Growing datasets and public benchmarks are making it harder to tell whether a model is being tested on something it

The post Google found a way to test Gemini without seeing the questions appeared first on The New Stack.

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

Last year, Ryan Ribner lied to explain why he assaulted SEIU CA President David Huerta on June 6. But Ribner hasn't been fired for his lies (or the assault). Instead, he was still hunting SEIU in April.

The post A Year After Lying about His Reasons for Assaulting David Huerta, Ryan Ribner Is Still Hunting SEIU appeared first on emptywheel.

Today, President Donald J. Trump returns to Texas with a record to match the visit: tax relief in workers’ pockets, the most secure border in a generation, safer streets, and a surge of private investment creating new American jobs across the state. Historic Tax Relief for Texas Workers, Families, Seniors President Trump’s Working Families Tax […]

The post President Trump Delivers for Texas: Lower Taxes, Border Security, and Jobs Coming Home appeared first on The White House.

“The U.S. is in talks with Venezuela to take a large stake in its oil fields, a dramatic move by the Trump administration to extend its influence on the post-Maduro government and the nation’s vast energy reserves,” Bloomberg reports. “Negotiators from both countries are discussing the plan, according to people familiar with the matter who […]

I don’t get the Claudeforce name. Why tie your product to a single model? That’s someone else’s brand. And whenever a competitor like OpenAI does something good, your own product will feel out of step too.

The Trump administration has approved the use of 2 new forever chemicals in data centers.

Exposure can cause cancer, vision impairment, neurological damage, reproductive harm, and "sudden death."

After four decades of cinematic magic, working on movies like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jurassic Park,’ Tippett Studio is holding a huge film memorabilia sale this weekend, part of its bankruptcy proceedings.

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We tried absorbing the c...

“President Trump’s playbook for reshaping America’s elections targets who appears on voter rolls, how ballots move through the mail, who monitors polling places and where congressional lines are drawn,” Axios reports. “The effort leaves virtually no part of the election system untouched.” “Voting-rights experts say the churn is designed to sow confusion, deter turnout and […]

“Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has accepted invitations to four debates ahead of November’s election in a state that has become crucial to each party’s potential path to power in the Senate,” the Washington Post reports. “Her Democratic rival, Troy Jackson, has not yet agreed to appear at the debates, which would all be hosted by […]

“When CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Russia’s top spy chief this week, he asked that Moscow not share intelligence with Iran,” NBC News reports. “Sergey Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, told Ratcliffe that his country is not providing intelligence to Iran.”

The rumors are true! The "world's most famous deli" is making a comeback after closing down 10 years ago. Continue reading…

Jelly Roll says, “I thought fat-on-fat crime was OK.” Continue reading…

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.