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The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday over laws allowing illegal immigrants to receive financial benefits offered to state residents, including in-state tuition, state grants and state-funded student loans. The Justice Department argued that laws in Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona allowing illegal immigrants to receive benefits are in violation of a federal law that states an illegal immigrant is ineligible to receive higher education in-state benefits unless those same benefits are available to every U.S. student. "This is a simple matter of federal law: Colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens," Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a statement.  "This Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country." DOJ SUES NEW JERSEY OVER LAWS GIVING ILLEGAL...

Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg : Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft   —  Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt …

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is backing a once-futuristic answer to America’s fight over AI data centers: Move them into Earth's orbit. Isaacman said Wednesday that solar-powered facilities in space could tap the sun’s energy without competing for the land, water and grid capacity required by sprawling data centers proposed across the country. "Let’s take our data centers, put them in Earth orbit, take advantage of that free fusion reactor that’s out there for us and use that to ensure we do win the space race for sure, but the AI race, too," Isaacman said in an interview with Nexstar DC. Isaacman’s idea comes as voters push back on the data center boom. A Fox News poll this summer found 70% of voters oppose building AI data centers in their own area, while 79% said construction should slow to address environmental and community concerns rather than move as quickly as possible to maintain a competitive edge over China. TRUMP TO HONOR ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUTS WHO TRAVE...

Hugh Langley / Business Insider : Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more   —  It can DJ.  It can order food.  It can book you a table at a restaurant.  And of course, it can access your Instagram.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow to meet with Russian intelligence officials, the Kremlin reportedly said Wednesday, after video emerged of a U.S. military transport plane coming in for a landing Tuesday at Vnukovo airport. President Donald Trump , when asked this morning about Ratcliffe’s visit on "The Glenn Beck Program," said, "He’s there on, you know, very sort of semi-routine." "We would like to see the war with Ukraine end," Trump added, before saying, "Now something may come out of it. "We're working very hard to get that war ended and frankly they both want to see it ended at this point." Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House, the CIA and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for further comment. US MILITARY PLANE LANDS IN MOSCOW, WITH KREMLIN CLAIMING IT HAS NO INFORMATION: REPORT Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, according to Reuters , "All I can ⁠tell you is that there have been contacts via t...

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal : Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus   —  Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power