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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul , R-Ky., will schedule a committee vote next week to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times today. The committee could vote to hold Fauci in contempt . But it doesn’t stop there. Contempt of Congress must go before the entire Senate. It takes a simple majority to hold someone in contempt. But such a resolution must clear one filibuster, requiring 60 yeas. WATCH: FAUCI ATTORNEY EJECTED FROM SENATE HEARING AFTER CHAOTIC EXCHANGE: 'YOU ARE NOT RECOGNIZED!' So, it’s doubtful Fauci is held in contempt. Even if the Senate broke the filibuster, the Senate must approve a separate resolution to make a criminal referral to Department of Justice. That would face at least one filibuster, again entailing 60 affirmative votes. It is more common for the House to hold someone in contempt compared to the Senate. The Senate last successfully held someone in contempt i...

The Information : Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns   —  Lilian Weng, a researcher who cofounded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati …

Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product   —  A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling - a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul …

President Donald Trump is threatening to strike Iran’s deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility — a site the United States previously left untouched while bombing the country’s other major nuclear sites , raising new questions about what may have changed. Estimated to lie beneath at least 100 meters of rock near Iran's damaged Natanz nuclear enrichment complex, Pickaxe was designed to replace an above-ground plant capable of assembling roughly 6,000 advanced centrifuges each year before it was destroyed in 2020. Iran said the replacement would be larger, more modern and built "in the heart of the mountain." Analysts believe the tunnels could eventually hold a centrifuge assembly line, an enrichment plant or equipment used in certain nuclear weaponization activities. I'VE STUDIED MILITARY STRATEGY. TRUMP NOW FACES IRAN'S OLDEST BATTLEFIELD TRICK Yet the administration has not said whether it has confirmed that centrifuges were moved inside — or why a site ...

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg : The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software security flaws so far in 2026, on pace to roughly double the tally of flaws recorded in 2025   —  The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally …

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio   —  Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government  —  Nvidia is in talks to provide …