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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : OpenAI warns investors against “unauthorized opportunities” to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles   —  In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs.

Katie Tarasov / CNBC : A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made   —  When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio 's announcement this week halting work visas for foreign commercial truck drivers drew praise from conservatives in the wake of a deadly accident in Florida. "Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers," Rubio announced on X on Thursday. "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers." The move follows a deadly crash in Florida in which an illegal immigrant from India allegedly struck and killed three people while driving a truck. Questions still loom about how he obtained a commercial driver’s license, as federal investigators say the suspect, Harjinder Singh, failed English proficiency and road sign tests. OVER 55 MILLION VISA HOLDERS SUBJECTED TO CONTINUOUS VETTING AMID TRUMP ADMIN CRACKDOWN Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the C...

Mike Allen / Axios : Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience”   —  Joe Gebbia — a co-founder of Airbnb who was named by President Trump this week to be the first U.S. chief design officer …

Richard Henderson / Bloomberg : Australia orders Binance Australia to hire an external auditor within 28 days over “serious concerns” with money laundering and terrorism financing controls   —  Australia's financial crimes agency ordered Binance Holdings Ltd.'s local arm to appoint an external auditor after finding …

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is renewing the call for DNA testing for migrants to prevent trafficking at the southern border in a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning. Blackburn noted the recent passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" contains funding for the practice in the billions intended for border security and immigration enforcement. "As an essential component of that commitment, this landmark legislation provides critical resources to prevent child trafficking and child recycling—specifically allocating funds for ‘collecting fingerprints’ and ‘collecting DNA’ in accordance with the Immigration and Nationality Act," the senator wrote in the letter . YOUNGKIN CREDITS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH BOLSTERING ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING EFFORTS "Implementation of this critical provision will be a significant step forward in our fight to protect these innocent children—many of whom were trafficked into the Unite...

Wall Street Journal : Trump says Intel has agreed to give the US a 10% stake; source: the government won't be on the board or play a major role in Intel's governance; INTC jumps 6%+   —  Move comes after days of discussion in Washington about options for troubled American chipmaker's future

President Donald Trump took heat from a major swing-state governor and potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender who scoffed Wednesday at the idea of eliminating mail-in balloting by fiat. "Donald Trump can sign whatever the hell executive orders he wants to sign and make a show out of whatever he wants, but he can't change the Constitution with an executive order ," Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a press conference in Harrisburg. "The Constitution gives the authority to set our election rules to the states," Shapiro said . TRUMP SLAMS MAIL-IN BALLOTS AS CORRUPT, BUT MAY NOT HAVE THE POWER TO DERAIL THEM "Let me remind you that it was just about five years ago that a bipartisan majority in the House and in the Senate passed mail-in voting .  And [since] that time, millions of people have voted by mail," Shapiro said. He was referring to Act 77 of 2019 , which several Republicans supported but later accused Democrats and left-leanin...

Tony Stubblebine / The Medium Blog : Medium's CEO explains how the platform's AI policy has evolved as it adopts some AI tools while prioritizing human curation and inviting community feedback   —  How we are navigating the role AI does and doesn't play in our mission to deepen understanding.  —  Here's a conundrum we've …

Vice President JD Vance touted the progress National Guard troops have made tackling crime in Washington the past nine days — and suggested that their mission may extend past 30 days.  President Donald Trump unveiled plans Aug. 11 to deploy troops from the D.C. National Guard and to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department to tackle crime in Washington. And, so far, those efforts are paying off, according to Vance.  "We are seeing really substantial effects because these guys are busting their a--," Vance said while meeting with National Guard troops at Washington’s Union Station Wednesday.  NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS FROM SIX RED STATES HEAD TO DC TO HELP TACKLE CRIME "Right here in Union Station, you have vagrants, you have drug addicts, you have the chronically homeless, you have the mentally ill who harass, who threatened violence, who attacked families," Vance said. "And they've done it for far too long. This should be a monument to American grea...

TechCrunch : Anthropic announces a subscription offering that adds Claude Code to Enterprise and Team plans; the tool was previously available only via individual accounts   —  Anthropic on Wednesday announced a new subscription offering that will incorporate Claude Code into Claude for Enterprise.

FIRST ON FOX: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new nationwide push to purge illegal immigrants from public health insurance programs on Tuesday. Under the new initiative, CMS will issue monthly enrollment reports to states that identify any Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees whose citizenship or immigration status cannot be confirmed through federal databases. These databases will include the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, among others.     The first of those monthly reports was sent out Tuesday, CMS indicated in an announcement about the new initiative. Every single state will receive an individual report over the course of a month. Meanwhile, states will be expected to report back to CMS on the results of their verification reviews. 'THAT ENDS NOW:' WHITE HOUSE VOWS REMOVAL OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM TA...

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars   —  Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped …

A federal judge is set to decide this week if President Donald Trump's appointee Alina Habba is the rightful acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey after the president sidestepped the Senate confirmation process to keep Habba in the job. Judge Matthew Brann did not indicate how he would rule during a hearing on Friday, but he said he would make his decision by the middle of this week.  Brann, an Obama appointee serving in the Middle District of Pennsylvania , is presiding over the matter after the chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New Jersey and Pennsylvania, decided the case presented too much of a conflict for the New Jersey judges. TRUMP EXPLOITS LOOPHOLES TO KEEP HABBA IN US ATTORNEY ROLE, TRIGGERING COURT CLASH The fight over Habba's authority was brought by a criminal defendant named Julien Giraud Jr., who is facing routine drug and gun charges in New Jersey. After Trump appointed Habba, the president's former personal defense attorney,...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Texas AG Ken Paxton launches a probe into Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, including for children   —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging …

Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg : Interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and 2nd place in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta   —  Last week, the Pentagon's long AI Cyber Challenge, or AIxCC, came to a head onstage in Las Vegas.

Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made an appeal to non-Democrats during brief remarks in Brooklyn on Sunday, kicking off his general election campaign.  Mamdani, who defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 13 percentage points in the June primary, recently concluded his five-day, anti-Donald Trump tour of each of New York City's boroughs last week.  Without referencing Trump this time around, Mamdani addressed supporters in Brooklyn on Sunday with a message on affordability and local government being able to take care of voters' "material needs."  "Are there more New Yorkers who want to join this movement for a city that they can actually afford?" Mamdani, who's campaigned on socialist and communist ideas, such as government-run grocery stores and rent freezes, said.  MAMDANI DEFENDS CITY-RUN GROCERY PLAN, SAYS STORE OWNERS CAN BE 'PARTNERS' Mamdani recalled a conversation he said he had on primary election day w...

Nikkei Asia : How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services   —  BANGKOK/SHANGHAI — Chinese streaming services are catching up with American rivals in the Southeast Asian market, with giants iQiyi …