If you’re a statewide elected official, you shouldn’t be able to profit off lobbying and consulting while in office. Proud to sign this common sense legislation to end the grifting!

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

Australian band The Little River Band released "Night Owls" from their 6th studio album in September 1981. It peaked at #6 in America on Billboard top 100. Good night, friends. Sleep well.

TEXAS GOP CONVENTION: Most Republican House members voted against Dustin Burrows for speaker. Almost every Democrat backed him. Today the GOP convention crowd agreed, booing him on the mainstage until he stopped talking.

This isn't "5D chess" or any other weak excuse. The CDC, under the Trump administration, putting millions of American infants and adults at an elevated risk of death, disability, and injury will not "Make America Healthy Again." $735,720,598.00 just awarded to Pfizer by the CDC for infant COVID shots. Another $505,272,000.00 awarded for adult vaccines. As it is, seven million American children have been given a COVID shot since Trump took office. If a terrorist organisation, Iran, or anyone other than Pfizer was endangering Americans like this, he would have threatened them with nuclear annihilation by now. But don't worry, there's some fuzzy pictures of UFOs and aliens to keep you distracted.

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…

NEWS: The Coalition for Affordability and Prosperity (CAP) asked Senate HELP to oppose Sen. Hassan's "Medication Affordability and Patent Integrity Act." CAP's Director Chuck Flint discusses the risk of exposing private healthcare data to China. Story: washingtonreporter.news/1808…

🚨 US National Debt Is Projected to Soar to $60 Trillion Over the Next Decade ‼️ By the numbers: $3T in personal and corporate tax revenues $1.3T debt service on $39T deficit, which is the largest budget line item, exceeding even defense spending. Debt is projected to rise by $2.4T per year over the next decade and reach a mind-numbing $60T, with debt service rising to $2.4T per year. This is a four-alarm fire wake-up call for Congress to rein in spending, slash waste, and crack down on fraud. I support a balanced budget amendment as a path to fiscal sanity. Share your views on how to best solve this threat to solvency. ⬇️