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The Verge [no paywall]: “As Brendan Carr heads to Capitol Hill, newly released documents still don’t say much about what DOGE did at the FCC. Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they …
WIRED: “You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak in Large Language Models (LLMs),” comes from Icaro Lab, a collaboration of researchers …
Institute for Local Self Reliance: The Hidden Cost of Ceding Government Procurement to a Monopoly Gatekeeper – ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is driving up costs, eroding competition, and …
The Big Newsletter: “The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it’s unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive Last month, the Atlanta Fed came out with a report showing a clear relationship between consolidation in grocery stores and the rate …
Washington Post and no paywall: “They are part of an AI moon shot, driven by an escalating U.S.-China war over dominance in the field. The projects are starting to transform landscapes and communities, sparking debates about what our energy systems and environment can sustain. The price includes increasing power costs for everyone and worrying surges …
Pro Publica: The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds: “The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, …
The First Branch Protocol: “The Government Publishing Office grabbed the spotlight at the final Congressional Data Task Force meeting of 2025 last Wednesday by announcing that it is launching a Model Context Protocol server for artificial intelligence tools to access official GPO publication information. The MCP server lets AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini pull …
Mother Jones – “The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process. The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A Times …
CNBC: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday issuing a single regulation framework for artificial intelligence, undermining the power of individual states. To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order says. “But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative.” The Trump administration, with the aid of AI …
Bloomberg (no paywall): “In the final weeks of the 2025 fiscal year, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement agencies went on a spending spree to outfit officers as they fanned out across American cities: $12.2 million for rifles, $11.3 million on tasers and $3.7 million worth of chemical munitions and less lethal materiel. Those were among …
Axios: “Construction work at the White House for President Trump’s $300 million ballroom is well underway — and all that’s left of the site where the 123-year-old East Wing once stood is rubble, photos taken this week show. The big picture: Trump said on Truth Social over the weekend that the ballroom would be “double …
NBC News: “The Trump administration plans to require travelers from more than 40 countries to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the U.S., according to a notice published Tuesday in the Federal Register. The data would be “mandatory” for new entrants to the U.S., who hail from 42 countries …
