All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off f…
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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal …
Happy birthday to the Trump phone
From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, …
China may have accessed Mythos
According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears tha…
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in p…
The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup
FIFA announced agreements with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube that include the participation of dozens of international influencers to generate …
The bill that would let Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr is here
Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting co…
Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern I…
YouTube Appears to Be Making Money Off of Sanctioned Iranians’ Accounts
New research suggests that dozens of monetized YouTube channels are run by people and organizations that the US government has sanctioned for their ti…
iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost …
Threats Against Politicians Skyrocketed After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules
New research finds that in the six months after Meta relaxed rules in the name of free speech, violent threats against lawmakers—including President D…
What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport
Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have …
MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: …
Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center
Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported…
Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The ne…
Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the fed…
Trump goes after green cards
On the Friday before Memorial Day, on the eve of a long weekend, the Trump administration announced that it was further gutting legal immigration. The…
SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites
The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Golden Dome" d…
Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling
Border security czar Tom Homan keeps threatening to "flood" New York City with ICE agents. But a new investigation shows that ICE has been quietly ram…
Trump Mobile’s website still says the T1 Phone is ‘American-made’
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As …
Temu fined more than $230 million by EU over illegal product sales
Temu has been fined €200 million (about $232 million) by the European Commission after it found that consumers are "very likely to encounter ill…
Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next
So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chao…
Department of Labor Tells Employees to Report Anyone Prioritizing DEI
The email instructs workers to report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second inauguration. One employee tells WIRED it felt like a “reminder to …
Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas…
Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
Hundreds of thousands of workplaces use software to monitor employees. Now, a new study has found that many of these tools share data not just with em…
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he'll respond to questions the public have submitted via the ch…
Trump Mobile may be leaking customer addresses
Just as the T1 Phone is seemingly on the verge of release, Trump Mobile has been accused of insecurely storing customer data, leaving addresses and ph…
Trump is waging a silent war on legal immigration
When the member states of the United Nations reviewed their Global Compact on Migration earlier this month, one country was conspicuously absent from …
The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah
Utah may host one of the world's most colossal data centers, despite stark warnings from experts and fierce public backlash. Earlier this month, commi…
X agrees to crack down on illegal hate and terror content in the UK
British online safety regulator Ofcom says it has accepted new commitments from X that aim to better protect UK users from seeing illegal hate and ter…