NEW: The Trump admin could walk away from Anthropic's suit w sweeping new authority to effectively label U.S. AI (and other) companies as national security risks. And the admin will probably continue using Claude / Mythos, despite the purported current ban.
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NEW: A New Mexico judge is likely going to order Meta to make major changes to Facebook, Instagram & its other social media apps, with potentially far-reaching ripple effect on the $1.5 trillion tech giant and its multinational competitors. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
NEW: A federal jury in California took just a couple hours on Monday to unanimously dismiss Elon Musk’s claims alleging that Sam Altman and OpenAI deceived him into funding the company with promises to operate it as a nonprofit for the public welfare.
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Hassan Ali Kanu
NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from making any payouts from its "anti-weaponization" fund, which has led to a bipartisan furor over potential payments to Jan. 6 defendants.
w @kyledcheney.bsky.social @joshgerstein.bsky.social
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Hassan Ali Kanu
Hassan Ali Kanu
Hassan Ali Kanu
BREAKING: Judge opens inquiry into settlement of Trump-IRS lawsuit with $1.8B "Anti-Weaponization Fund." Judge Kathleen Williams (Obama/SDFL) says if fatally flawed suit was filed just to justify a settlement, it could merit sanctions. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams asked Trump’s lawyers to respond to a call for her to explore the deal that led to the $1.8 billion fund.
JUST IN: Trump settles $10B suit over leaking of his tax returns, as well as Russia probe & Mar-a-Lago raid damages claims by setting up $1.8B "weaponization" fund at DOJ to issue payments to unspecified victims of "lawfare." w/Danny Nguyen www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
The move comes after Trump, his sons and family business sued the IRS for $10 billion for failing to properly oversee a contractor who leaked the tax returns of the president.
BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from continuing to establish or operate its "anti-weaponization" fund, which has led to a bipartisan furor over potential payouts to Jan. 6 defendants.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social @hassankanu.bsky.social
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