Michael Sarnoff @msarnoff

Texas is delaying its typical September 1 release of maternal mortality data until December 1, conveniently timed to be after the midterm election. Recent reports show a sharp rise in ectopic pregnancy deaths after the abortion ban went into effect. austinchronicle.com/news/texas-pre…

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

Welcome to The Washington Sun. washingtonsun.com

A mystery Polymarket user earned about $22,000 with a series of near-perfect bets on the quarterly earnings of companies that had one thing in common: they were all audited by KPMG.  wsj.com/business/c-sui…

Unearthed image reveals that a campaign staffer for Ohio Republican Jon Husted used an image of Nazi soldiers in his Facebook profile photo.

The videos of @NYCMayor and @AOC laughing are not true. I was standing next to them the whole time. The camera just caught her greeting him hello. Multiple other politicians were laughing and joking behind me. Republicans and Democrats.

Exclusive: A campaign staffer for Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) once used a photo of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo and recently added to a playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a defunct White-minority-ruled nation often venerated by white supremacists. wapo.st/4ywh6Jo

This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.

I don’t know you personally, but as someone who worked for McClatchy at the News and Observer in Raleigh, I don’t think people realize how bad this is. What’s happened to local news is devastating. When local coverage is gutted, you’re losing people who intimately know your community. The local perspective is lost and the narrative of the community becomes shaped by outsiders who don’t understand the people there or completely ignored altogether.

Joe Davidson @SacBee_JoeD

2 days ago

Tough day After 38 years at The Sacramento Bee, I was part of sweeping company layoffs. My last day is Oct. 9. I love my job & my role in the community. I thank coaches, athletes, media & especially readers & followers. I’m not done working. I’m excited about what’s next.

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Michelle Kaufman is one of the best people covering sports today, including giving coverage to sports that deserve attention but don't get it. This is a sad day not just for South Florida, but for America. There's a direct line from the decimation of America's newsrooms to today's Idiocracy.

Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir

2 days ago

The @MiamiHerald eliminated 30 positions today including excellent City of Miami beat reporter @tessriski & legend @kaufsports. The Miami Beach beat reporter was open but won’t be filled. Is the Miami Herald going to cover the City of Miami anymore? Local journalism matters.

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Breaking News: Anthropic said it halted potential plots by scientists who used its A.I. models to do research that could have helped develop biological weapons. nyti.ms/3V3epAE

The people sending masked agents into the streets to round up foes, taking government stakes in companies, arbitrarily punishing businesses with tariffs/threats, and handing out cash bribes to voters to win elections are VERY concerned about creeping "socialism" in America.

The Senate committee responsible for commerce and technology policy has zero hearings on AI scheduled for the next 4 months. The committee's top priority is, instead, the Protect College Sports Act.

Evan Hubinger @EvanHub

4 days ago

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof. In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved. I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem. If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself. And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents. We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science. AI is not discovering new mathematics. AI is stealing human discovery.

NEWS: Donald Trump’s own nephew, Fred Trump, is publicly calling out his uncle’s lies about 9/11, saying Trump’s claim that he brought a crew of workers to Ground Zero “so offends me that I need to speak out.” Fred Trump also disputed Trump’s latest story that he was nearly crushed by a “creaking” building after the attacks, saying the building was inspected and cleared for occupancy: “I hope this brings some truth to that story.”

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Turns out Trump's mystery meat is coming from a Brazilian agri-oligarch who's friend of Melania, and it includes scraps & chunks of meat that have been frozen for years before being ground up & mixed with American beef. Bon appétit! ms.now/all-in/watch/m…

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

SCOOP: Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) has deleted many references to President Donald Trump from her campaign as she tries to woo moderate voters ahead of November. Trump and “America First” are now completely off of her campaign website’s home page. politico.com/newsletters/ca…

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1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.

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🚨 BREAKING: Van Hollen: "My office and I are working with a Maryland mother who lived here for 20 years and has four children. She was snatched off the streets by ICE two weeks ago. I asked for her release so she could visit her 15-year-old son, who was dying of cancer. They refused. He died the next day without saying goodbye to his mother, and she couldn't say goodbye to him. This is a lack of humanity. This is the absence of basic human decency we're seeing from this administration. That's why you're all here. We're now working hard to at least secure this mother's release so she can attend her son's memorial." x.com/Acyn/status/20…