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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was dealt a major legal blow Friday after a federal judge gutted key state laws providing in-state tuition, financial aid and scholarships to illegal immigrants, marking another win for the Trump administration's nationwide immigration agenda. U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn, a Trump appointee serving in the Southern District of Illinois , sided with the Justice Department , ruling that Illinois' in-state tuition policies, the RISE Act and the Illinois DREAM Act are "unconstitutional and invalid" as applied to illegal immigrants. The ruling permanently prevents Illinois from enforcing the laws, although McGlynn delayed the order from taking effect for 14 days to allow the state to ask an appeals court to intervene. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES COLORADO OVER IN-STATE TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS U.S. Attorney Steven Weinhoeft celebrated the ruling. "Illinois sought to incentivize illegal immigration on the taxpayer...

Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times : Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns   —  Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance

Chris Metinko / Axios : Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ   —  Paper, a design platform for teams using AI, locked up a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ, CEO Stephen Haney tells Axios Pro exclusively.

A newly-uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration's final days revealed plans that could have expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3 million noncitizens while acknowledging that previous court challenges had blocked many of President Donald Trump's efforts to end the protections. TPS is meant for foreign populations experiencing crises like political unrest or natural disasters, and while Trump has tried to end the "temporary" provisions for Haitians, Nepalese, Salvadorans and Sudanese people, lawsuits from pro-migrant advocates have halted most attempts. "Stakeholders argue that granting TPS will potentially protect many vulnerable people from President-elect Trump's planned mass deportations ... They argue that these protections are likely to hold in court, and they are prepared to litigate efforts to terminate or slow down the implementation of TPS for specified nations by the Trump Administration," read a section of ...

Timothy Pratt / The Guardian : The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone   —  Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure   —  Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company.  It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media.