BREAKING: State AGs have won their suit challenging the $100,000 H-1B tax. The court granted summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. "The Policy implementing the Proclamation is declared unlawful and is VACATED in its entirety." “The Supreme Court’s reasoning in this pair of precedents supports a finding that the $100,000 payment requirement amounts to a tax, not a penalty.” Presumably, an appeal is coming and we still await decisions in the Global Nurse Force case (I'm co-counsel) and in the Chamber's case in the DC Circuit. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

Prettiest airport in the country.

President Trump said he called off the signing of an executive order that would address cybersecurity concerns raised by powerful new AI models because he objected to parts of the directive bloom.bg/43of1lg

Google I/O is tomorrow, last chance to get predictions in. I love to guess, so here's mine: The Google team is being strangely quiet about the new Gemini. At this point everyone knows it is arriving tomorrow, along with their personal agent named Spark. This reticence, of course, can be interpreted in many ways. I'm choosing to interpret it in accordance with my nature. I think they trained the largest model they've ever successfully trained - possibly the largest one anyone ever has. And something unexpected emerged at scale. They had their Mythos moment, but not in the same way Anthropic did. Gemini has always been a very different model from Claude. The benchmarks will go out tonight under embargo (they probably already are), but I don't think they will fully reflect what I'm talking about. I think they hit something they weren't even aiming for. Something that surprised them. If I'm right, that surprise will be part of tomorrow's show. We shall find out together in the morning.

Illegal crock fights. I painted with acrylic

SITUATION DETECTED: The jury in Musk v. Altman has returned a unanimous verdict. All three of Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI were found barred by the statute of limitations.

That’s an oversimplification. The limitation was already known. Part of his argument was he was deceived and they hid the evidence from him. The jury rejected this argument on its merits. Because they didn’t buy his argument, the result was the dismissal due to the limitation. But it wasn’t simply too late. They disagreed with his argument.

Léa Seydoux on why she started acting: “I’m going to tell you something very intimate,” she tells Variety’s @DPD_ in this week’s cover story. “The reason why I do this job ... I never really wanted to become an actress, but I wanted to exist. The only way I found to exist was to have my image printed on a film and have the proof of my existence.” Read the full cover story: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHhhG