Terrific reporting by @kayewiggins.ft.com, addressing a question that has been bugging me throughout Trump 2.0:
What does the white-collar defence bar even do these days?
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Amid growing anger on the left, Palantir hired two DC lobbyists with ties to the Democratic Party.
One of them, Cristina Antelo, told the FT that Democrats angry with Trump “have misplaced that anger at a US corporation” whose software helps make ICE’s operations more precise.
More in today’s FT:
One of Trump’s closest White House advisers has called for the US to “find the off-ramp” in its conflict with Iran.
It's the first 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 signal of discontent over the war from a senior figure in his administration.
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Farage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship cools
w/ @annasophiegross.bsky.social & @joemillerjr.ft.com
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EXCLUSIVE with @georgehammond.bsky.social: The Trump admin has drawn up rules for civilian AI contracts that would require companies to allow “any lawful” use of their models.
Comes amid Pentagon vs Anthropic. Similar rules are likely to follow for military contracts.
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Today @georgehammond.bsky.social and I explore how AI dollars 💵💵💵 are likely to dominate key races in the upcoming midterms
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The likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Alex Karp will help train a crack squad of techies with a mission to overhaul the federal government, OPM chief Scott Kupor tells me:
well now that I know you could save me money I might! (good piece)
No I’m not! Are you saying that this will be last gen of Macbook at a reasonable price point? News you can use…
Wait tell me more. I did not realise there was a memory crunch?
"But across the US, citizens, clergy and elected officials in conservative communities are leading a grassroots rebellion against the rapid rollout of the technology. Political strategists fear this could wreck Republicans’ chance of maintaining their majority in Congress this November..."
I went to Missouri to report on the grassroots backlash to the AI revolution, which is gaining momentum by the day.
NEW: The White House is upping the ante in its war against state-led AI regulation - this time warning a Republican legislature to kill a safety bill it sees as burdensome to American companies.
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A story by the great @pickardje.bsky.social and yours truly from 2023 has become the fulcrum of a crisis that might end with the ousting of a British prime minister...
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“Their policy was to kneecap the states and let Big Tech write the rules.”
RDS indirectly blasts Trump's team, including David Sacks, for seeking to give the AI industry everything it wants.
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Trump and his allies raised a record $429mn in donations last year, as tech billionaires and companies lobbying for policy changes helped build a war chest ahead of the midterm elections. rpt by @joemillerjr.ft.com Ian Hodgson and Paul Caruana Galizia www.ft.com/content/5038...
Trump has “a lot of money to potentially spend on a handful of competitive Senate and House races... or to make himself politically relevant after he leaves the White House."
Elon Musk continued to donate to the GOP, giving a further $5mn to the Senate Leadership Fund PAC in mid December, per filings.
Definitely back in the Trump tent.
Coming up on @ms.now with Katy Tur to talk Trump pardons
Dozens of agents spent years bringing Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine, only for Trump to pardon him with a social media post.
They, and other US law enforcement officials, are fuming.
More from @kayewiggins.ft.com, Stefania Palma and I.
All these people just willingly revealing they use Spotify.
What fresh hell? Why are viewers of UK coverage having to put up with Aussie scoring?!
The AI lobby lost 99-1 in the Senate this summer.
Now it is back with a $100mn war chest and a new campaign for a ban on state-level regulation, which is already enraging Maga populists.
Me in today's FT: on.ft.com/4prXzFH
I don’t know if it was broadcast in US. But that, and the actual malice threshold, are beside the point where Trump litigation is concerned. The strategy is to force defendants to fight an increasingly expensive and invasive case in the hope that they cave.
“We have to understand that in 2025, that evil person . . . has an audience of several million people,” says Heritage Foundation boss Kevin Roberts of the Holocaust-denying Nick Fuentes.
My piece on the mutiny within Maga
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NEW: A little-known drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr has won its largest-ever contract from the Pentagon.
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Here is what Elon Musk’s Grok tells users about our investigation.
I’ll leave it to others to decide if this is an accurate summation.
Or as our newspaper subs eloquently put it...
