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View More NewsRobby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss New York Gov. Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to ease pressure on the power grid by having New Yorkers sweat it out at home, then dive into the latest debate over the Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship. They also cover War and Peace meeting 30 Rock, revisit the best TV comedies of the 2010s, and react to Matthew Yglesias’ concerns about the national debt. Later, they unpack Vice President J.D. Vance’s attack on Milton Friedman–style economics and debate why House of the Dragon keeps drifting from its source material. 0:00—Mamdani wants you to sweat…
In brief OpenAI has proposed handing the U.S. government a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, based on its $852 billion March 2026 valuation, according to the Financial Times. Sam Altman pitched the idea directly to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to contribute similar stakes. The talks follow a month of escalating government intervention in frontier AI releases—including a delayed GPT-5.6 rollout and a temporary export ban on Anthropic’s top models. OpenAI has been in talks with the Donald Trump administration about handing the U.S. government a 5%…
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Anticipating the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson recalled: “We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government, they come from God Himself.” In 2018, President Trump likewise declared: “Our rights are not given to us by man; our rights come from our Creator.” And defence secretary Pete Hegseth recently stated: “Today we gather to recognize that our rights here in this great country come from a loving and benevolent God, not government.”But the US Constitution—the repository of those rights—makes no mention of God. Its authority…
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Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) , reportedly omitted reporting exposure to Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, in violation of federal…
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FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the global…
from the swiss-slapp-suits dept Earlier this year we wrote about the ridiculous thin-skinned executives at Palantir suing a small independent Swiss online magazine, Republik,…
Anthropic said it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive citing national…
from the real-real-bad dept As we near the halfway point in the second Trump presidential term, there’s something that is worth remembering: Donald Trump,…
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