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President Trump said he will seek a rehearing at the Supreme Court to overturn its birthright citizenship ruling, a move unlikely to succeed since the Court rarely grants rehearings (last done in 1965).
Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable were taken offline after Amazon flagged a jailbreaking flaw, triggering a rapid, multi-agency push that led to sweeping export controls. Over three weeks, government and industry officials—spanning Commerce, NSA, OSTP, the Treasury, and White House aides—pushed for fixes and alignment before the models were relaunched on July 1. The episode underscored tensions between safety, policy, and innovation, and leaves open how future AI releases will be coordinated across nations and labs like OpenAI and Google.
The Trump administration lifted a two-week export ban on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI models, allowing the company to resume offering these AI tools to customers worldwide; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the reversal, signaling a shift in tech regulation while noting ongoing regulatory decisions around other AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6.
President Trump said East Potomac Golf Links will undergo a sweeping renovation with a Sept. 1 start, a timeline that also must navigate regulatory reviews whose details officials have yet to clarify.
Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief under Trump, has become the central figure in a battle to define the future of America First foreign policy, fueling a GOP rift over troop withdrawals and U.S. defense strategy.
The Senate narrowly voted 50-48 to block President Trump from resuming war with Iran, with four Republicans joining Democrats; two Republican senators were absent, underscoring sharp partisan divides over U.S. policy toward Iran and presidential war powers.
After President Trump signed executive orders to accelerate U.S. quantum development (aiming for a deployable quantum computer by 2028 and post-quantum cryptography by 2031) and building on prior federal backing of about $2 billion, quantum stocks jumped in after-hours trading led by Infleqtion (~13%), Rigetti (~6%), D-Wave (~7–8%), IonQ (~3%), and IBM (~3.6%).
President Donald Trump said he’s considering a government stake in leading AI companies, with industry leaders set to discuss the idea at the White House as AI firms SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public. The move echoes previous government stakes in firms like Intel and enters a broader debate about AI’s impact on jobs and industry oversight.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping job protections from a senior group of federal workers earning up to about $200,000 a year who influence policy, making it easier to fire about 8,000 employees as part of a broader federal workforce overhaul; unions have sued, and litigation is paused while changes are finalized.
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration, affirming federal authority to regulate telecom companies and potentially narrowing state or local regulatory powers, signaling a shift in how the industry is overseen by federal agencies.
The White House issues a sweeping executive order to accelerate U.S. AI innovation while tightening cyber defenses: it requires rapid cyber-defense upgrades for national security and civilian systems, creates an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to coordinate vulnerability discovery and remediation, establishes a voluntary framework for developers to assess and share frontier AI models, expands AI-focused federal hiring, and strengthens enforcement against AI-enabled cybercrime, while explicitly avoiding mandatory licensing of AI models.
Two new tiered repayment plans for federal student loans are set to launch in about four weeks, expanding income-based options by tying monthly payments to income and debt levels; the changes could lower payments for lower earners and allow faster payoff for higher earners, but may affect overall interest costs and forgiveness dynamics, with enrollment details to be announced through official portals.
President Trump praised House Republicans for advancing the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent and said he would work hard to pass the bill, aiming to end the country’s semiannual clock changes.
White House officials are reportedly forming an AI oversight working group with tech industry leaders and government representatives to outline formal review procedures for new AI models entering the market. The discussions, including attendees from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, consider which agencies would lead oversight (potentially NSA, the White House National Cyber Director, and the director of national intelligence) and even revived ideas like the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, signaling a shift toward federal AI regulation despite earlier regulatory stances.
Spirit Airlines is shutting down operations immediately after a White House bail-out proposal fell through, ending ongoing restructuring efforts as higher oil prices and other pressures eroded the carrier’s prospects. With no new funding available, Spirit will wind down, process refunds for direct bookings, and assist stranded passengers through other carriers. The episode underscores the government’s failed rescue attempt and leaves more than 10,000 jobs at risk.