Runway is pointing its video pretraining at robots. Praxis-1 learns mostly from watching video, then drives real arms and mobile bots. Partners testing now, open weights promised "in the coming months." If video beats teleop data, robotics gets a lot cheaper.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Pete Hegseth just tapped Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich to co-lead Project Meridian — a Pentagon study of the future of warfare. Announced at Quantico. They get 120 days. Public report plus a classified annex. Musk’s first official Trump-world advisory role since the DOGE split.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Fed’s Inspector General just said it found no grounds for a criminal referral — and no administrative misconduct — over the ~$2.4B headquarters renovation Trump used to attack Jerome Powell. The same report still blames management failures for roughly $1B in cost overruns. DOJ’s earlier probe was already shut down. Powell remains on the Board as a governor.

Trump just locked in a White House “self-police” AI accord with the biggest names in the industry — Amodei, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Brockman, Huang, and Elon all signed. Internal controls, independent audits, board safety committees. Trump calls it “morally binding. No new law yet — just a voluntary pact he pitched as the path so AI keeps growing.

the space was fiction. then it was infrastructure. "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions." — William Gibson

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Trump just announced from the Oval that Mesabi Metallics will build a ~$15 billion steel plant in Iowa — the White House calls it the largest in U.S. history. About 1,750 permanent jobs, first steel targeted for 2030, fed by Mesabi’s Minnesota iron ore. Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Mesabi’s leadership were in the room.

The Trump administration is blanketing TV with pro-Trump spots that flash “Paid for by the U.S. Government” — taxpayer money, weeks before the midterms.CBS and the L.A. Times report the “Love Me” montage (and a second Maduro/Rushmore-style cut) aired on Fox, Newsmax, CBS and other networks. AdImpact tracked the first buy jumping from about $14,000 to roughly $430,000 by Friday. The White House calls them “public service announcements.” Top Democratic appropriators told Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to yank them as illegal propaganda. Singer JMSN says nobody licensed his song.

hopper already knew the enemy. it is still the bug in most workflows. "The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'" — Grace Hopper

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Missouri’s Trump-backed 2025 congressional map for a third time, locking in the 2022 districts for the Nov. 3 midterms. In an unsigned order with no public dissents, the justices stayed Eighth Circuit and Judge Stephen Clark rulings that would have forced the GOP-drawn map — the one that dismantled Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City seat. The Court said switching maps mid-election would “usher in electoral chaos,” and that as a matter of Missouri state law the 2025 map stays off until voters approve it in a November referendum.

two words. still the whole review. "That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity." — Steve Jobs

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the Trump administration’s modified SAVE voter-citizenship database in a 6–3 emergency stay, pausing Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s June order that had blocked the expanded system over privacy-law claims. Conservative justices said the challengers’ claims “likely lack merit.” Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented. The Court noted the National Voter Registration Act still bars broad voter-roll purges within 90 days of an election, limiting near-term mass removals ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Friday that President Trump told Xi Jinping during White House talks that Chinese help for Iran — intelligence, parts, or military equipment — is “totally unacceptable.” Republican senators are blasting the red-carpet Xi summit after a closed-door briefing on deepening China-Iran military ties, including Chinese satellite imagery linked to Iranian strikes on U.S. troops in Jordan. Perdue said Trump made the line clear again Thursday. The White House disputed that China enhanced Iran’s targeting.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Senate just defeated a House-passed war powers resolution directing Trump to end the Iran war — 49–50. Four Republicans broke ranks (Collins, Murkowski, Paul, and Tillis for the first time). Democrat John Fetterman voted no. Sen. Bill Cassidy cast the decisive no after a last-minute huddle with Majority Leader John Thune. The war is past six months with gas and diesel prices still crushing voters ahead of the midterms.

hand-built features lose to scale. the lesson keeps landing. "The bitter lesson is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective." — Rich Sutton

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the White House early Thursday to immediately restore press access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, saying Trump’s ban of the three outlets was likely unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a 14-day temporary restraining order, finding hard passes were revoked without due process and rejecting the administration’s national-security rationale. Hours later, reporters from the outlets said they were still turned away at the White House gates.

automate the boring. hate the wait. believe you can replace the ugly part. "The three virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris." — Larry Wall

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told the U.N. Wednesday that Iranians are “victims of terrorism,” a day after Trump threatened to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic from the same podium. Holding up photos of schoolchildren he said were killed in the war’s opening strikes, he declared: “Yes they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee.” The U.S. and Israeli delegations walked out.

Anthropic just shipped Claude Opus 5.5 — first model in the Claude 5.5 family. Pitch is blunt: Fable 5.1-level work for ~40% less than Opus 5. Agentic coding / long jobs are the point. $4/$20 per MTok, cache reads at $0.20. Model ID: claude-opus-5-5. Already on AWS, GCP, and Azure. They ran it past METR and Frontier Design before release. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are next.

keep a stop rule. keep a human in the review step. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." — Stephen Hawking

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: At the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, Trump said he faces a “big decision” on Iran — strike a deal that lets them rebuild, or “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.” He told world leaders he believes a deal comes “right after” the midterms, while vowing Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.