Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine agreed to an immediate halt to strikes on each other's energy infrastructure, though neither government had confirmed it. Ending refinery strikes would remove one source of the energy-price pressure Trump has cited, but only once both capitals confirm the deal and say what it covers.
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Donald Trump on Friday picked Katie Zacharia, a senior communications adviser at Trump Media & Technology Group, as his next White House press secretary. For the investors in the company that owns Truth Social, the governance question is whether she quits, and no report yet answers it.
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Trump ruled out US strikes on Iran before the November 3 midterms and kept the naval blockade in force. Brent still traded near $103 a barrel on Friday, and a pledge that lapses on election day returns no Iranian oil to the market.
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Trump's September 29 executive order tells federal agencies to write "SI" instead of "AI" in their official documents and on their websites. The order does not bind private firms, but vendors that sell to agencies will meet "SI" throughout the documents they read.
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President Trump's Sept. 29 executive order tells federal agencies to say "super intelligence" in public statements, on websites and in reports. The order speaks only to agencies, so companies selling to them decide for themselves whether their proposals and product pages follow.
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Trump's $5,000 midterm dividend swings between a $1.35 trillion and a $1.7 trillion bill
Donald Trump's $5,000 midterm dividend has alternated between adult citizens and all citizens, a 73 million-person gap. With only 21% of registered voters expecting the check in an Economist/YouGov poll, the pledge is a conditional promise with two possible price tags.
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- Evidence55
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Trump said on Truth Social that he would stand up an AI Force modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar soon, while still calling the backlash against data centers a hoax created by the left. Industry figures told Politico they had no advance word.
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Trump is telling communities that refusing data centers will leave them poor, while Abbott and Pillen have paused approvals in their own states. That gap is where the schedule risk on a project now sits.
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Trump says he will create an "AI Force" to watch over AI development and name an AI Czar, a week after Dario Amodei asked the government to regulate frontier labs. He will not slow development down.
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Trump's Truth Social post compares the new body to the Space Force and routes enforcement against bad actors through law that already exists. Industry chiefs had just asked for a slower pace.
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Between a renaming poll and a promised AI Force, Trump wrote that attempts at the destruction of AI are a Democratic hoax. For anyone who owns a safety gate in a launch checklist, that post is the part a plan has to account for.
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A Saturday post promises an "AI Force" and an AI czar while ruling out new brakes on the industry, so AI misuse gets handled under laws already on the books. Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI have asked for mandatory limits instead.
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53 former prosecutors tell a court buyers of Trump's $100,000-a-month post feed may be criminally liable
Fifty-three former federal prosecutors told a federal court that firms paying up to $100,000 a month for early Truth Social posts may face criminal liability. No one has been charged, but each subscriber's $1.2 million-a-year seat is now a compliance question.
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- Evidence55
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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Burchett's bill would halt US diesel exports whenever the average tops $5 a gallon
The US national average is a record $6.51 a gallon, and Rapidan Energy puts the odds of a White House export ban at 35%. The flow that would stop is 1.5 million barrels a day, a fifth of world seaborne diesel.
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- Evidence45
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POLITICO, CNN and MSNOW sue jointly three days after Trump revoked their credentials
The three outlets want a federal judge in Washington to declare Saturday's lockout unconstitutional, and their complaint pairs a First Amendment retaliation claim with a Fifth Amendment due process claim.
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Republican memos warn candidates that backing data centers is a losing position
A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
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- Evidence48
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+14
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Huang argues for AI speed while Nvidia's most important customers lobby for rules
Nvidia's revenue reached $215 billion in the latest fiscal year against $17 billion in 2021, and the labs that trained on those GPUs, OpenAI and Anthropic, are now asking Washington for the oversight Huang says engineering can handle.
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Warsh and Fed board unanimously approve quarter-point rate hike to fight inflation
Kevin Warsh's board voted unanimously for a 0.25-point increase with consumer prices up 3.4 percent in August. Navy Federal's chief economist says the Fed signaled two or three more hikes to come.
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Trump and Xi refuse the AI speed limit ten days before they meet
OpenAI and Anthropic want Washington and Beijing to negotiate a pace for frontier AI development. Trump's answer arrived on Truth Social on Sept. 14, and China's Foreign Ministry called the U.S. debate fear-mongering the same day.
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