NEW: EV startup Faraday Future and its founder have received Wells Notices, a precursor to an enforcement action, following a three-year SEC investigation into the company's SPAC merger techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/far…

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-…

NEW: The judge overseeing Texas AG Ken Paxton's divorce case has put it under seal, meaning the public won't be able to access the record. We got all the documents filed before the case was sealed and have published them. See this thread. #txlege

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ope…

Wow -- the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden "made up" the Epstein files wsj.com/politics/trump…

"Citigroup Inc. pushed a trading desk head to delete a social-media post that was critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza and drew attention to widespread starvation in the region." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The lack of anything related to intelligence agencies in the Epstein files raises more questions about why the Trump administration won't just release them. If there's nothing sensitive there from a national security perspective, why all the secrecy? businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…

Besides the massive corruption, it's a cursed gift. It can probably never be deemed free from surveillance devices or malware hidden in its systems. Incredible risk when USG could just get its own AF1 from Boeing.

When Builder.ai suddenly collapsed observers pointed to sketchy financials and cooked books. Former employees paint a bizarre portrait of a company that made promises it couldn't keep, and touted AI advancements that simply weren't there. restofworld.org/2025/builderai…

With a handful of exceptions, the battle for Golden Dome contracts will not be fought between startups and defense primes, but by hybrid teams that can most effectively stack capabilities. Story in reply.

Scoop: At least 15 coal plants and 4 chemical facilities emailed the EPA this spring to request exemptions from environmental rules, according to documents obtained by Sierra Club and shared w/ The New York Times. They all won the exemptions. nytimes.com/2025/07/29/cli…

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. nytimes.com/2025/07/29/wor…

“You remember?” “Do you remember?” “I’ll never forget.” President Trump keeps uttering fake history about his own record and world affairs, using made-up quotes and vivid but imaginary details to make his fiction seem legit. Here are nine recent examples: cnn.com/2025/07/30/pol…

The agreement between NASA and ISRO to develop NISAR was signed in 2014, before President Trump's first term.

Truly incredible: New York Post now running with a document from the Durham Annex that the Durham Annex says (sadly, you have to read on a couple pages) is likely a Russian fake, in a story whose subtext is that the whole Russia thing is nonsense. nypost.com/2025/07/31/us-…

Kash Patel declared on social media that the annex revealed “evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.” In reality, the annex shows the opposite, indicating that a key piece of supposed evidence for the claim that

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

From Jason Leopold — the longtime head of FOIA at the FBI was ousted over how he handled the Epstein files bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels. nytimes.com/2025/08/05/cli…