AI
AI Labs Signed a 308-Word Accord. Trump Calls It 'Morally Binding.'
Seven signatures, four layers of self-audit, no enforcement: what the White House AI accord says and omits, plus the order renaming AI 'super intelligence.'
Politics
Geopolitics
Trump and Xi Built an AI Hotline. Nobody Defined 'Incident.'
The Trump-Xi summit produced a Super Intelligence dialogue and an AI incident hotline — one sentence, no date, and no definition of 'incident.'
AI
Trump Renames AI at the UN. A Day Later, Its Builders Ask for Rules.
Trump told the UN that AI is now 'super intelligence' and rejected a 'globalist scheme' to control it. A day later, Altman and Amodei asked for rules.
AI
Both Parties Are Running Against Data Centers. Trump Isn't.
Candidates from both parties are weaponizing the data center backlash in the midterms. The president is nearly alone on the other side.
Technology
'Backwards and Poor': Trump Picks a Side in the Data Center Revolt
Trump told communities fighting AI data centers to 'let Data Reign' — against Gallup majorities, a GOP governor's freeze, and his own party's Ohio polling.
AI
Musk's Midterm Money Now Comes With a Frontier AI Lab Attached
Axios reports Musk is reviving America PAC for a big GOP turnout push. The political press is covering the money. The tech story is what he owns now that he didn't in 2024 — and who regulates it.
AI
Fable 5 Was Nice While It Lasted
The government made Anthropic pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone, over a jailbreak that amounts to asking a model to fix bugs in code. The facts, and why it hit me personally.
Automotive
Ram's Rumble Bee Returns: 777 HP, Yellow, and Out of Reach
Ram revived the Rumble Bee as a three-truck muscle lineup topping out at a 777-hp Hellcat SRT. The trims, the timing, and why the Hemi V8 is back at all — a comeback that lasts only as long as the fuel-economy rollback behind it.
AI
Connecticut Passed a Sweeping AI Law (SB 5). Here's What It Does.
Connecticut's AI Responsibility and Transparency Act is on the governor's desk. The lead sponsor represents my district. Here's what's in it, who carries the burden, and where it collides with the federal preemption push.
Geopolitics
Trump Evacuated as Gunman Charges Hilton Checkpoint at WHCD
President Trump was evacuated from the Washington Hilton on Saturday night after a gunman charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It is the same hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.