From Business Insider (Effie Webb) yesterday: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 3 briefly blocked sources mentioning him or Donald Trump from its reasoning when asked who is the biggest spreader of disinformation on X. Igor Babuschkin, a cofounder of xAI and its head of engineering, said Sunday on X that an unnamed employee who previously worked at OpenAI “pushed […]
Two months ago, President Donald Trump promised that Congress would “cut Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in spending next year through Reconciliation!” Two weeks ago, Trump seemingly doubled down: “BALANCED BUDGET!!!” he declared in an all-caps post on Truth Social that, in fairness, could be seen either as a demand for such a thing—or an […]
Apple announced on February 24 that it will spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. President Donald Trump took to social media to credit his administration for the announcement. Without his policies, the president said, Apple “wouldn’t be investing ten cents.” However, Trump’s antitrust and trade policies […]
Does the Free Press Clause provide extra rights to the institutional press, or instead protect all speakers’ equal rights to use the printing press and its technological heirs? My cohost Jane Bambauer and I discuss this with legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. You can also watch our past episodes: Free Speech, Private Power, and Private […]
Does DOGE have much of a mandate? How popular is Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency? And does it matter? Interesting new poll results from Harvard CAPS/ Harris via Mark Penn show DOGE is popular: 70% of voters say government expenditures are filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency60% of voters think DOGE is helping make major cuts in […]
From Judge Kelly Rankin’s Order on Sanctions and Other Disciplinary Action filed yesterday in Wadsworth v. Walmart Inc. (D. Wyo.): Legal research has improved over time, going from the use of digest books to online databases like Lexis and Westlaw. Litigators are beginning to make the jump from those databases into the world of Artificial […]
Forty years ago today, Edwin Meese III took the oath of office as the United States’ 45th attorney general. Gary Lawson and I argue in a new book, The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment, that Ed Meese was the most influential attorney general in American history. It is impossible to understand modern […]
In his first month back in office, President Donald Trump has raised alarms for Afghan allies in the U.S. who have spent years unsuccessfully seeking asylum or permanent residency after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. The BBC has reported that Afghans have already been deported, and are among the 299 migrants living in a Panamanian […]
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern Ukraine were evacuated due to radioactive contamination. […]
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that a vehicle’s interior counts as a “public place” when it’s driven on a public road. In May 2022, a Ramsey County sheriff’s deputy stopped Kyaw Be Bee on suspicion of theft of a catalytic Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination […]
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