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The FBI has reportedly begun questioning current and former CIA officials as part of a Justice Department probe into former CIA Director John Brennan and his role in the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Agents have interviewed roughly a dozen officials involved in drafting the assessment, with investigators focusing on how its conclusions were reached and whether Brennan may have misled Congress during his 2023 testimony, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters . Brennan has been identified as a subject of the investigation, according to his attorney. BONDI CONFIRMS DOJ HAS RECEIVED CRIMINAL REFERRAL ALLEGING BRENNAN PERJURY OVER STEELE DOSSIER At the center of the probe is whether the intelligence assessment — which concluded Russia sought to boost Donald Trump ’s candidacy — was influenced by the controversial Steele dossier, a collection of largely unsubstantiated allegations about Trump’s supposed ties to Russia that was ...

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Anthropic names eight unauthorized secondary market sellers of its shares, including Hiive and Forge Global, warning that any share transactions there are void   —  Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company's shares, telling investors that buying the stock won't work.

Washington Post : Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations   —  As the White House grapples with cybersecurity threats from artificial intelligence models, intelligence officials want sway in AI policy overseen by Commerce.

FIRST ON FOX: House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., introduced a legislative package on Monday designed to improve transparency and security in campaign finance as a major Democratic payment processor faces scrutiny over foreign donations. Steil’s package includes two bills: The Campaign Finance Transparency Act and the Preventing Foreign Influence in American Elections Act, Fox News Digital learned. The first piece of legislation would impose a suite of new transparency regulations on organizations that process political donations , such as ActBlue, while the second proposed law seeks to prevent foreign nationals from funding election-related activities through means other than campaign contributions.  A spokesman for Steil confirmed to Fox News Digital that they plan to expedite consideration of these bills through the administration committee.  "My investigation into ActBlue has demonstrated that the current campaign finance laws weren’t drafted for the ...

@trq212 : An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction   —  Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Anna Tong / Forbes : A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women   —  Despite its name, Janitor AI isn't selling productivity agents or enterprise copilots; it's serving up interactive erotic content …