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Leo Schwartz / The Information : Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies   —  The White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions on Anthropic's advanced models to other AI companies, an official close to the U.S. government said Saturday.

Allan Smith / NBC News : Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth ~$130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states   —  The authors found that data center opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects nationwide from January through March.

David Sacks / @davidsacks : David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to “fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model” after “a highly credible trusted partner” reported a Fable jailbreak   —  I've had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

Law enforcement officials responded to Washington, D.C.'s National Mall on Thursday after a giant "8647" message appeared to be etched into the grass, prompting an investigation as federal authorities remain on heightened alert over political threats and violence.  "The deranged vandalism on our National Mall will not be tolerated," an Interior Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Any threat against the President is taken very seriously by the Department, and our U.S. Park Police will investigate this incident and hold those responsible accountable." The marking was etched into the grass between the Washington Monument and the World War II memorial. The administration has previously interpreted the number "86" as a political threat, pointing to its common use in the  restaurant industry  to mean removing or refusing service, while 47 appears to refer to Trump as the 47th president. The administration has previously treated "8...

Aaron Holmes / The Information : Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners   —  As Microsoft gets ready to overhaul its struggling Xbox gaming unit, it hasn't ruled out spinning out or restructuring the unit …

President Donald Trump wants Congress to supercharge military funding and pass stalled voter ID and citizenship verification legislation in one fell swoop, but many Republicans aren’t sold on the plan.  Trump on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans to steer around Democrats' opposition again and "immediately" pass a third budget reconciliation package, including $350 billion in defense spending coupled with the stalled Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.  "This is a GENERATIONAL Investment in our Military, even bigger than President Reagan’s! Recon 3.0 is the ONLY path to the full $1.5 TRILLION DOLLAR Military Budget our Warriors need in order to build THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM," Trump said on Truth Social.  TRUMP'S SAVE AMERICA ACT SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE IN THE SENATE DESPITE REPUBLICAN REVOLT The president’s request came just hours after he signed Republicans’ second budget reconciliation bill into law that would fund immigrati...

New York Times : Some investors question SpaceX's projected $1.77T valuation, citing its $4.3B loss on $4.7B in revenue in Q1, concerns over space data centers, and more   —  Elon Musk's rocket company is spending big and losing money.  That has raised questions about whether it can justify its valuation for its blockbuster initial public offering.

John O'Farrell / New York Times : Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI industry and his ex-partners for spending hundreds of millions to fight regulation, calling it “a huge mistake”   —  I first came to America from Ireland in 1984, as a young engineer about to attend business school.

Dario Amodei : An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics   —  In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree …

A Texas congresswoman is leading the voice of online activists enraged over the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony's murder trial, and is spreading outright lies and racially inflammatory rhetoric after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a rare radical Democrat elected in deep red Texas, took to her podcast after Tuesday's verdict to make false claims about the trial and its jury as she continues to stir up racial hatred. "I’m not necessarily convinced — not that I could tell you the name of one person on this jury — that we had 12 impartial White folk out of Collin County sitting on a jury for this young black man," she said, exhibiting her empathy for the convicted murderer. Her claim about the jury is patently false. Sources close to the trial confirmed to Fox News Digital that the jury was not made up only of white people, despite Crockett's claim, which has been parroted by activist...

Paige Smith / Bloomberg : OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments   —  OpenAI and Visa Inc. are now allowing artificial-intelligence agents to make purchases online after users give their permission …

President Donald Trump moved one step closer Tuesday to locking in immigration enforcement funding through the end of his presidency.  Republicans’ $70 billion immigration enforcement and border security measure advanced along party lines during a test vote of 213-211. All Democrats present voted "no" during the procedural vote, which tend to be party-line. The Senate-passed measure now heads to a vote on final passage in the House, where it is expected to be approved as early as Tuesday evening. Given Republicans' slim majority in the lower chamber, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can afford to spare just a handful of votes. "We need to fully fund this department, especially at a time of heightened security threats," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Tuesday.  DOZEN GOP REBELS FAIL TO PERMANENTLY KILL TRUMP'S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND Some conservatives who want commitments from leadership to vote on legislation codifying Trump’s executive o...

Jason Koebler / 404 Media : A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations   —  When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.  —  The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case …

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence, with a new architecture built on Apple Foundation Models developed with Google and adapted to run on device and on servers   —  Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed …

Heekyong Yang / Reuters : Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI   —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday that South Korean internet conglomerate Naver (035420.KS) would use its technology …

Bloomberg : As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients   —  Wealth managers, who can make upwards of $500,000, are confronting a chatbot reckoning.  —  Down the Wealth Walkway on South Beach …

Wall Street Journal : KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing   —  Only 26% of companies say they have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, according to a new survey