A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face deportation proceedings.
Beijing now has strong new powers to punish firms for pulling manufacturing out of China. Multinationals are increasingly caught in a web of coercion and complex rules as they try to operate across the US, EU and China.
Final demand wholesale inflation rose by 6% on an annual basis in April, marking the largest increase since 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. More than three-quarters of the 2% increase in final demand goods in April was attributed to a 7.8% increase in energy prices. Final demand services moved up 1.2%, pushed along largely by a 2.7% increase in trade services.
A proposed 1-gigawatt AI data center in Kenya is facing scrutiny after it became clear it would consume a third of the country's power. With the President warning that operating Microsoft's planned facility would require cutting power to as many as half of the country's citizens and businesses, the project's development has faltered as all parties discuss potentially scaling back its ambitious goals.
A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse has told how the late sex offender sexually abused her while he was under house arrest for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Roza, who was recruited from Uzbekistan as a teenager by Epstein's associate and modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, spoke publicly for the first time alongside a number of victims in a field hearing that was organised by House Democrats.
They are Trump-class battleships.
New Navy Shipbuilding Plan: Trump-class Battleship will be Nuclear-powered, Carrier Design is Under Review
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Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots (2025)
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ChatGPT became teen's 'illicit drug coach' before death, lawsuit claims
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... The family of a college student who died after ChatGPT allegedly told him to mix illicit drugs is suing the AI chatbot's developer, OpenAI, for their son's death. ...
Wire Train -- Skills of Summer (1985)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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There's an elevator here
Pocket for the rain
Taking all our hearts across this river
And back again
Making all our crosses clear of all our skeletons
I can still remember when
God was fish you took on Sunday
She said
She said
Burning candles all around our bed
She said
She said
The end of May
We will begin again
It's the skill of summer
It's a new parade
In another season it's the work of faith
Between our harnesses
And harmony
It's the skill of summer
It's the work of faith
We can burn the billboards advertising life as lies
We can bury ourselves in each others eyes
We can hide our hearts
Hide our hopes and hide our dreams
I can still remember when
God was fish you took on Sunday
She said
She said
Burning candles all around her bed
She said
She said
The end of May
We will begin again
It's the skill of summer
It's a new parade
In another season it's the work of faith
Between our harnesses
And harmony
It's the skill of summer
It's the work of faith
It's the skill of summer
It's a new parade
In another season it's the work of faith
Between our harnesses
And harmony
It's the skill of summer
It's the work of faith
...
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AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
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... The smart LLM user checks models' output for hallucinations. Now, it appears we need to inspect them for signs they are gaslighting us -- an unforeseen cost of increasing intelligence.[italics theirs]
Most of the Internet lost its marbles over the cracking abilities of Anthropic's Mythos Preview. Those capabilities are real, but -- as the release of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 has shown us -- they're not unique. A rising tide of intelligence makes these models increasingly competent at an ever-wider range of tasks -- including finding and exploiting code vulnerabilities.
The more significant signal from Mythos is buried in its novel-length System Card and concerns the model's honesty, because on at least one occasion Anthropic detected Mythos using an explicitly forbidden technique to solve a problem.
Models always have a bit of trouble following instructions precisely. The surprise lay in the fact that the model knew it had used a forbidden technique, then proceeded to cover its tracks. ...
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Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown
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... If you're thinking you can replace your human call center staff with a server farm of bots, think again. Nearly three-quarters of enterprises that deploy AI customer communications agents later roll them back or shut them down, according to new research suggesting the systems are far harder to manage reliably in production than the AI hype implied. ...
News coming out of the Pres Trump - Pres Xi meeting so far does not seem to be a net positive for the US.
But I'll wait for a day or so until things settle down. Early reporting, and all that ...
Los Lobos - Will the Wolf Survive? (1984)
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... Consumer prices climbed last month by the most in three years, but prices for electricity surged even more, highlighting an intensifying battle between utilities, consumers and power grids. ...
A huge issue for the power grids is how to handle the extreme power load that AI data cetners are presenting and will be presenting.
Biggest US Grid May Be Too Large to Function, Regulator Says
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... The chairman of the top US energy regulator has put America's biggest power grid on notice, warning that its operator may be too big to function adequately amid the AI data center boom.
Laura Swett, who oversees the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said Tuesday she fears that PJM Interconnection LLC's struggle to address the voracious power needs from data centers threatens the country's artificial intelligence ambitions. ...
... CBO: "Golden Dome" Will Cost Over One Trillion Dollars ...
Meanwhile, Pres Trump is denying Federal help for parents to feed their children and keep them healthy.