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Rubio warns court order blocking deportations to South Sudan causes 'irreparable harm' to foreign policy https://ift.tt/7EZmCWI

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that a federal court order requiring the U.S. government to maintain custody of deportees on a flight meant for South Sudan will cause "significant and irreparable harm to U.S. foreign policy."  The Trump administration late Friday filed two court documents after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts said the deportation flight violated his previous April injunction that allows deportees time to challenge an order to be sent to a country other than their own.  "This Department of Justice believes that this situation urgently requires judicial intervention to restore President Trump’s full Article II authority to conduct foreign policy," a U.S. Department of Justice official told Fox News Digital. Rubio noted the order has already complicated U.S. diplomacy with Libya, South Sudan and Djibouti and presents a serious threat to the president’s Article II authority to conduct foreign policy.  FEDERAL JUDGE ORD...

Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (Adam Edelman/NBC News) https://ift.tt/9UspENT

Adam Edelman / NBC News : Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions   —  It's the latest attempt in a growing effort by states to enact significant limits on the use of social media by young people.

Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps (Jason Snell/Six Colors) https://ift.tt/F6kgyN4

Jason Snell / Six Colors : Sam Altman and Jony Ive's awkward io video feels like empty hype until a compelling device is released, especially given Ive's post-Jobs design missteps   —  Ever since OpenAI announced a couple of days ago that it's integrating Jony Ive's hardware startup, I've been struggling with what to write about it.

Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt (Allison Johnson/The Verge) https://ift.tt/lUiNCyf

Allison Johnson / The Verge : Despite Google's guardrails, Veo 3 users are generating realistic clips of news, disasters, and fictional events, some with dialogue not included in the prompt   —  Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. … Even at first glance, there's something off about the body on the street.

Vance tells Naval Academy graduates they are facing 'new' and 'very dangerous era' for US https://ift.tt/KqLWQID

Vice President JD Vance told graduates at the United States Naval Academy on Friday that they are embarking on a mission in a "new and very dangerous era for our country" as adversaries such as China and Russia are "determined to beat us in every single domain."  Speaking in Annapolis, Vance said the Trump administration has "reversed course" in U.S. foreign policy as there will be "no more undefined missions" and "no more open-ended conflicts."  "We’re turning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests. Now, this doesn’t mean that we ignore threats. But it means that we approach them with discipline and that when we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind," Vance said.  "In the wake of the Cold War, America enjoyed a mostly unchallenged command of the commons -- airspace, sea, space, and cyberspace. But the era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over. Today...

Sources: Oracle will buy ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2 gigawatts Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project (Financial Times) https://ift.tt/QZRG8ij

Financial Times : Sources: Oracle will buy ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2 gigawatts Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project   —  The 1.2 gigawatts infrastructure project will be one of the largest in the world  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Anthropic says Opus 4 may use command-line tools to alert the press or regulators, or lock users out, if it detects immoral behavior like faking a drug trial (Sam Bowman/@sleepinyourhat) https://ift.tt/Zzi1Is4

Sam Bowman / @sleepinyourhat : Anthropic says Opus 4 may use command-line tools to alert the press or regulators, or lock users out, if it detects immoral behavior like faking a drug trial   —  If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.