Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary

Iran Seizes Two Ships In Hormuz Chokepoint As Tehran Received 'Some Signs' U.S. Ready To End Blockade The semi-official news agency Fars reports on X that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the MSC Francesca and a Greek-owned ship named Euphoria, which had been attempting to transit the Hormuz chokepoint earlier today. In total, three ships were targeted this morning by IRGC naval forces, and two were seized. "The IRGC Navy seized two violating vessels and transferred them to Iran's coast. IRGC Navy Command: Disruption of order and safety in the...

AI Consciousness Could Become A Regulatory Moat Authored by Peter C. Earle via The Daily Economy, Artificial intelligence companies have spent years convincing the public that their products are useful. More recently, they've sought to persuade policymakers that AI poses an unlikely but real existential threat to humanity. But their most recent campaign has taken a remarkable turn: making the case that sufficiently advanced AI architectures are potentially conscious and, as such, may demand legal standing, moral consideration, and protections traditionally reserved for living beings. The latter is a curious proposition indeed,...

Judge Rules Trump Admin Illegally Retaliated Against Anthropic Over AI Red Lines Via Decrypt.co, In brief Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment, due process and Administrative Procedure Act claims in a 59-page order. The government conceded Anthropic has no backdoor access to deployed models and is no riskier than any other AI system. Anthropic lost on one count, its claim that Trump's directive to federal agencies exceeded presidential power. A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration illegally punished Anthropic for publicly refusing to let the military use its Claude LLM...