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Anthropic CEO refuses Pentagon demands to remove safeguards on military AI
A battle is brewing inside the Pentagon that could determine the future of American military strategy. On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged to cut ties with Anthropic—one of the two AI providers authorized by…
U.S. hits new low in international corruption index
At the moment, corruption investigations and trials of political figures are taking place in jurisdictions around the U.S. including Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C. These aren't isolated scandals; the latest…
Politicians consider Soviet-style controls on 3D printers
The old Soviet Union strictly controlled photocopiers, because they empowered individuals to share ideas that challenged state control. The restrictions ultimately broke down under the weight of mass defiance as people took…
Court rules Chicago is liable for $163 million in overcharged parking and sticker fines
An Illinois county court ruled the city of Chicago is liable for $163 million in vehicle fines that it illegally overcharged residents. In a February 19 order, Judge William B. Sullivan granted summary judgment in favor of…
What Eliezer Yudkowsky’s AI doom predictions get wrong
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, Little, Brown, and Company, 272 pages, $30 Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone…
Why Zohran Mamdani’s ‘free childcare’ plan won’t work for New York City
"While families with young children comprise about 14 percent of the city's population, they comprise about 30 percent of the set of New Yorkers who are leaving the city," said Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at a…
Free nations don’t have to care about the whims of elected officials
The freer the nation, the less the public needs to care about anything that its leader might say or do. In freer nations, the leader's powers are strictly limited, and the citizens' rights are protected. Yet in…
House plan to avoid a shutdown would hike spending by billions
With the possibility of another government shutdown looming before the end of the month, Congress appears likely to take the easy way out: spend more money on everything. The House of Representatives passed a set of spending…
Where have the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Republicans gone?
Based on the troubling goings-on in Minneapolis, it's hard to describe former GOP Rep. Justin Amash's post on X as hyperbolic: "They're building a police state right before our eyes—which will ultimately…
The GOP looks increasingly like a home for Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders
For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs—"Republicans in name only"—as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement…
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