Source: MSN
“British officials are moving swiftly to court Anthropic after the US Defense Department labeled it a supply-chain risk for refusing military use of its Claude AI system. The designation, currently blocked by a federal judge, has created a diplomatic and regulatory opening for the UK to position itself as a more supportive base for AI firms. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration is backing the pitch, which includes expanding Anthropic’s London operations and a potential London Stock Exchange listing.” (04/06/26)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/uk-courts-anthropic-with-london-expansion-amid-pentagon-feud/gm-GM5B53FB5E
Source: The Bulwark
“Major MAGA Revolt Over Trump’s ‘War Crime’ Plan.” (04/06/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5E8e5KJbo
Source: hypertext
by Kristen Collins
“Content-focused policies risk censoring speech without fixing the underlying business model that pushes noxious material where it will do the most damage.” (04/06/26)
https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/for-better-tech-we-must-think-bigger
Source: The Daily Economy
by Nikolai G Wenzel
“From technocrats to central planners, the temptation to engineer society persists. Adam Smith saw the dangers clearly.” (04/06/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-wealth-of-nations-at-250-ten-profound-quotations-from-adam-smith/
Source: CounterPunch
by John Feffer
“Perhaps Donald Trump was persuaded—by his generals, by his buddies in Silicon Valley, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—that American military superiority would make quick work of the Iranian military. In addition to the aircraft carriers, the Stealth bombers, the Tomahawk missiles, and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, Trump could also call upon the assistance of Claude and his buddies.” (04/06/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/06/artificial-intelligence-versus-human-stupidity/
Source: Reuters
“A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in finding that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over the sports-related event contracts that Kalshi allows people to trade on its platform. … The ruling was in line with the position advanced in other litigation by the CFTC under President Donald Trump’s administration. The regulator last week sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois to prevent them from pursuing what it called unlawful efforts to regulate prediction markets.” (04/06/26)
https://archive.is/YHPs5
Source: The Hill
“Niall Stanage gives his notes on President Trump’s controversial Truth Social post from this past weekend.” (04/06/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5814541-rising-april-6-2026/
Source: Reason
by Fiona Harrigan
“Deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high in 2025 and a majority now say the agency’s actions make Americans less safe.” (for publication 05/26)
https://reason.com/2026/04/06/a-deadly-immigration-crackdown/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens) is now opposed to funding defensive shields that could save the lives of innocent civilians — if they are Israelis. Seems like she’s trying to win back the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America that spurned her in 2024 for not hating the Jewish state enough. Or maybe she’s just showing her true colors. Her re-hardened anti-Israel position comes even though she isn’t facing any significant opposition in her re-election campaign, which raises and spends so much money it’s more like a good-sized business than a scrappy Bronx-Queens political operation; she doesn’t need the DSA’s endorsement. But she got her fellow antisemitic socialists mad at her because she abstained from voting to deny funding for Israel’s strictly defensive Iron Dome project, which protects Israelis — Jewish and Arab — from the tens of thousands of missiles that have been lobbed from Iran’s regional terror proxies.” (04/06/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/opinion/aoc-lifts-the-veil-she-wont-help-protect-innocent-civilians-so-long-as-theyre-israelis/
Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]
“US President Donald Trump says a leak to the media about the existence of a second shot-down airman shortly after American troops rescued the first one threatened to upend the entire operation. The rescue of the F-15E pilot on Friday evening was first reported by Israeli media …. ‘We didn’t talk about the first [rescue] for an hour, and then somebody leaked something, which we’ll hopefully find that leaker,’ Trump says during a White House press conference on the weekend rescue mission. … ‘We’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ‘National security. Give it up or go to jail,” he continues.” (04/06/26)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-threatens-to-jail-reporter-over-leaked-rescue-of-pilot-thought-to-have-come-from-israeli-defense-chief/
