newsnation

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Saturday that charges against a doctor accused of destroying COVID-19 vaccines and giving children fake shots at their parents’ request have been dropped.  "At my direction @TheJusticeDept has dismissed charges against Dr. Kirk Moore ," Bondi wrote on X. "Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing. It ends today."  Moore, whose trial got underway Monday, was facing decades in prison for allegedly destroying more than $28,000 in  COVID-19 vaccines  and fraudulently completing and distributing hundreds of vaccination record cards.  The Utah-based plastic surgeon was indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2023.  FBI'S DAN BONGINO THINKING OF RESIGNING AFTER CLASH WITH AG PAM BONDI OVER EPSTEIN FILES: SOURCE Prosecutors say Moore and his three co-defendants ran a scheme out of Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah Inc. to...

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft   —  A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI - at the worst possible time  —  In our current M&A environment in the AI space …

Simon Alvarez / Teslarati : Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself   —  All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat : Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks   —  Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …

A divided federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday tossed out an agreement that would have allowed 9/11 terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in another failed effort to end a years-long legal saga surrounding the military prosecution of men held at Guantánamo Bay. The 2-1 D.C. Circuit appeals court decision upheld then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to undo the plea deal approved by military lawyers and senior Pentagon staff. The deal would have carried life without parole sentences for Mohammed and two co-defendants, potentially taking capital punishment off the table.  FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS ATTEMPTED DEPORTATION OF ANTI-ISRAEL RINGLEADER MAHMOUD KHALIL MAY BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL Mohammed, a Pakistani national, is accused of spearheading the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and another commercial jetliner that crashed in Pennsylvania . Austin said a decision on whether to take the death penalty off the table could only be ...

Ange Lavoipierre / ABC : At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users   —  In short:  —  Search engines are in line for the same age assurance technology behind the teen social media ban.

The Secret Service has ushered in a series of changes to beef up its security measures in the aftermath of the July 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania – including suspending six of its agents due to their response to the crisis.  Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn disclosed the suspensions Wednesday in an interview with CBS News, and said the consequences ranged from 10 days to 42 days of unpaid leave. Additionally, he said the agents would return to restricted roles following the suspension, and said the agency was "laser focused on fixing the root cause of the problem." "Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler," Quinn told CBS. "Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again." SECRET SERVICE SUSPENDS 6 AGENTS TASKED WITH PROTECTING TRUMP DURING JULY 2024 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT   The Secret Service confirmed to Fox News that the suspensi...

Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg : Memo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs amid an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will be merged into Indeed   —  The cuts will mostly affect people in the US, especially within teams including research and development and people and sustainability …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : YouTube is updating its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining “inauthentic” content as “mass-produced and repetitious” amid concerns over AI slop   —  YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators' ability to generate revenue from …

President Joe Biden's former chief of staff and a fixture of his re-election campaign, Ron Klain , privately announced during Biden's disastrous debate performance: "We’re f---ed." "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," a new book released Tuesday by journalists Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of The New York Times and Isaac Arnsdor of The Washington Post, is the latest analysis of how Biden lost the White House.  The authors described how, during the June 2024 debate, "Biden’s aides winced as the president started answering the first question about the economy and voters who felt they were worse off under his presidency."  And backstage, as Biden stumbled over an answer that questionably ended with, "We finally beat Medicare," back in the holding room, Klain stood up and announced, "We’re f---ed," according to the authors.  BIDEN AIDES PUSHED FOR EARLY DEBATE TO SHOW O...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : Arago, which is developing a photonic chip, codenamed JEF, that is designed to cut AI energy use by ten times at a comparable cost, raised a $26M seed   —  Arago unveils a light-powered processor designed to cut AI energy use by 10×, less than a year after it was founded.

Sean Hollister / The Verge : Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores   —  Epic isn't saying what it got out of Samsung. … An “Auto Blocker” feature on Samsung Android phones, which was turned on by default, automatically kept users …

FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican believes that regime change is the best long-term "solution" in Iran as a fragile ceasefire between the Islamic Republic and Israel continues to hold. The truce between Israel and Iran came late last month, and so far has put a hold on the fighting that took place over the course of 12 days in the region, which began when the Jewish State struck Iranian targets on June 13. It culminated in a U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear sites with bunker-busters in an operation greenlit by President Donald Trump . Sen. Steve Daines , R-Mont., who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and previously held a position as chair of the Senate GOP's campaign arm, told Fox News Digital that he is cautiously optimistic that the truce will hold, but warned that Iran’s deep-seated aggression towards Israel could be the ceasefire’s undoing — unless a new regime took over. SENATE SHUTS DOWN KAINE'S ATTEMPT TO CHECK TRUMP'S WAR POWERS "I...

Myles Miller / Bloomberg : A look at the US Secret Service's GIOC, which sources say helped seize ~$400M in digital assets over the past decade through crypto scam investigations globally   —  The scam began with a message, then a friendly exchange.  A stranger directed the victim to a cryptocurrency investment site …

Mishal Husain / Bloomberg : Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more   —  Are you reading books — physical books — as much as you used to?  —  Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries.

A Jewish advocacy group is blasting Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for sharing a video mocking Hanukkah Jewish traditions on social media. The organization, Stop Antisemitism, says Mamdani posted the "sick" video to his X account last year. The video is originally from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group, a satirical and comedic duo who dressed themselves in stereotypical Jewish garb for the performance. "Zohran Mamdani posts Indian men cosplaying Jews, spinning dreidels and lighting the menorah," Stop Antisemitism wrote in a statement on X. "Our holidays and traditions are sacred and not for your comedic pleasure, Zohran Mamdani – this is sick," the group added, tagging the mayoral candidate. TOP DEMOCRATS, MEDIA DEMAND ZOHRAN MAMDANI CONDEMN 'GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA' PHRASE Mamdani had posted the video in December 2024, adding the caption, "Happy 3rd night of Hanukkah from Astoria and Long Island City." The vide...

Lila Shroff / The Atlantic : Gemini referencing real-life moments when prompted to write a birthday letter shows how effectively Google is leveraging user data to craft personalized content   —  Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots.  —  In May, I asked Google's chatbot, Gemini, to write a birthday letter to my best friend.