How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

Pentagon Picks OpenAI To Replace Anthropic Update (2345ET): Sam Altman on Friday night announced that OpenAI and Department of War have struck a deal in which the DoW will be able to use the company's AI for military applications, and has agreed to abide by the company's red lines regarding safety (which were similar to rival Anthropic).  "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems," Altman said on Friday night, adding "The DoW agrees with these...

The US Treasury Department has relaxed its sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, allowing American companies to engage in certain transactions with the country’s state-owned energy firm. In a general license issued on Wednesday, the Treasury outlined broad exemptions for the US oil sanctions, which had prohibited most trade with Caracas’s state-run oil company, Petróleos de […]

To call Trump’s actions king-like is to greatly understate the problem. What we actually face is a massive, self-amplifying executive branch that makes deranged presidents far more dangerous than an actual king could ever be.