… His appearance reignited a slew of news stories about whether he might run for the presidency. “There is no secret plan to make Rubio president,” said one Rubio ally who spoke on the condition of anonymity, adding that the secretary of state did not volunteer to do the briefing, which instead came … …
… Undersecretary Emil Michael, a former top executive at Uber, has been more interested in making sure the Pentagon gets early access to frontier models, says a person familiar with the matter. …
… In the data for August’s event, 165 people disclosed their politics: More than half identified with the left. …
… Mercor and its competitors—such as Surge, Handshake, Turing, Labelbox, and Scale AI—have developed a reputation for being incredibly secretive about the services they offer to major AI labs. …
… He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority. …
… One had been reviewing US Department of Justice records related to Jeffrey Epstein when they noticed Dialog’s name on an invitation sent to a third party in 2012, which had been forwarded to the infamous sex offender, and grew curious about the secretive group. …
Within minutes of the Secret Service detaining an alleged attacker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, social media was flooded with baseless claims the attack was “STAGED.” In the days since, these claims have led some prominent pundits and creators to reassess the 2024 assassin… …
… Still, while Anthropic has resolved its impasse with the Commerce Department, defense secretary Pete Hegseth has told advisers there is no clear path to lift his February 28 order designating the company a supply chain risk, according to a person briefed on the matter. …
… Nevertheless, his letter contains several other claims that appear fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of FISA oversight. “Because of how heavily it is overseen by all three branches of government,” Himes says, “any effort to misuse the program would almost certainly become known to the Foreig… …
… For instance, while Congress installed hardened windows after the January 6 Capitol riot, the shoot-out between a gunman and secret service agents in front of the White House over the weekend revived concerns that part of the West Wing wasn’t appropriately secure. …