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Republicans in Congress add $250 annual federal EV tax to transport bill

Five principles should determine how you fund transport, says Consumer Reports.

Amidst legal turmoil, Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada

It's the latest escalation in a regulatory battle over the future of prediction markets.

The Pope’s AI advisor has called Peter Thiel a heretic.

And the headline of the essay in which this happens asks if he should be burned at the stake. Father Paolo Benanti, the Papal AI advisor, doesn’t seem too pleased about Thiel’s Antichrist lectures, which Thiel has brazenly brought to Rome. “La Silicon Valley s’etait lancée dans un coup d’État permanent.” I don’t think you need to know French to get the gist of that. one, but linked below is a summary of the essay. Make auto-da-fe great again??

The Pentagon filed a rebuttal to Anthropic’s lawsuit.

Anthropic filed a lawsuit earlier this month over its “supply chain risk” designation, but the Department of Defense held firm in a new court filing, alleging that the company could ostensibly “attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model either before or during ongoing warfighting operations” in the event it felt its red lines were “being crossed.” The filing added that the Pentagon “deemed that an unacceptable risk to national security.”

David Sacks’ big Iran warning gets big time ignored

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Citing fake cases in your court filing can be costly.

In this instance of citing cases that don’t exist, two lawyers were instructed to explain how it happened and specifically explain to the court “whether they used generative AI to write the briefs.”