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Four AI labs endorse slower development pace

Rivals coordinating usually means they're scared. The fact that they all said it at once suggests internal pressure exceeded competitive advantage.

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🌙 EVENING RUNDOWN · Sunday

📈 Markets are closed for the weekend, so the close hasn't moved from this morning's S&P +0.86%, Dow +0.98%, Nasdaq +0.96%. The number actually moving is the 10-year Treasury yield, closing in on 5% as the bond market all but dares the Fed to hike, per MarketWatch and Bloomberg.

• Pete Buttigieg went on Meet the Press to call the Supreme Court dangerously partisan, then proposed fixing that by having Congress add six new justices his own party would pick, per the Daily Wire.

• Trump told reporters in Ireland that Ukraine needs to stop hitting Russian oil refineries because it's driving up world diesel prices, now at a record high, and blamed Kyiv rather than his own Iran war for the spike, per the Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and the FT.

• Speaker Johnson said Trump's $5,000 dividend checks need a congressional vote to happen at all, despite White House claims otherwise, and his own conference is split — one Nebraska Republican says the money should go to the Pentagon instead, per Axios and the Hill.

• The Supreme Court blocked Missouri's new congressional map a second time, ordering the state back to 2022 lines that favor a Kansas City Democrat, per Fox News.

• Update: Sweden's exit polls now show the center-left bloc leading 51.3 percent, on track to retake power from the right, per the FT and Al Jazeera.

A 40-year-old Pennsylvania woman has died of measles, the third death in the state's outbreak this year, as vaccination rates keep declining, per Medical Xpress and the Guardian.

👀 OVERNIGHT: ICE's Tom Homan says there's a criminal investigation involving Rep. Ilhan Omar, no specifics given. A study links GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to a rare but serious brain disorder tied to vitamin deficiency. Manchester United lost the derby to ten-man Man City as fans protested outside Old Trafford before kickoff.

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House to vote on Russia sanctions bill this week

Bipartisan Russia sanctions survive every Trump objection. That's notable.

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Sweden swings right. Courts block Trump twice. AI labs suddenly brake. Same chaos, different Sunday.

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Here's what actually moved.

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☕ MORNING ROUNDUP · Sunday

🌍 The four guys who spent years selling you the AI future just spent Saturday warning you about it.
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis all lined up behind a slowdown pitch within nine hours, Axios reported — Amodei warning of a possible rogue-agent takeover within six months, and Altman confirming OpenAI is shelving its IPO because there's too much safety work left to do first.

• Sweden votes today in what the Guardian and Al Jazeera call the tightest race in years, with the far-right Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi roots, positioned to enter government for the first time in its history.
• Texas AG Ken Paxton was acquitted on all counts in his impeachment trial, per the New York Times, clearing the way for his Senate campaign to keep rolling.
• Iran meets Gulf Arab states tomorrow as diplomacy with Washington stalls, per the New York Times, while Houthi forces claim a strike on a Saudi military base amid fighting that has already left hundreds dead in Yemen, per France 24.
• Russia hit a Kyiv-Warsaw train line minutes after it carried foreign officials home from a regional summit, per the Financial Times, in what Ukraine and Poland call a systemic attack on the rail network, per Deutsche Welle.

💰 Markets are closed for the weekend after Friday's gains — S&P +0.86%, Dow +0.98%, Nasdaq +0.96% — but Axios flags the number underneath: the 10-year yield near 4.97%, 30-year mortgages at 7.08%, and gas above $4.29 a gallon are all pushing the borrowing bill higher at once.

👀 WHAT TO WATCH: Sweden's result tonight, Iran-Gulf talks Monday, a Fed rate call this week.

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Lawsuit: Armed ICE agents at polls would violate 1866 law

The legal claim is narrow and procedural—it rests on a law written 160 years ago specifically to prevent exactly this practice. Whether courts apply 1866 as written or reinterpret it is now the question.

Is this a real fix, or just a press release?

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Windows on the World: dining atop the towers before 9/11

The retrospective lands today because today is the 25th anniversary and because enough time has passed that nostalgia can coexist with remembrance. The meal and the moment are now both historical.

Are you here for this, or over it?

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🌙 EVENING RUNDOWN · Saturday

📈 Markets are shut for the weekend, so Friday's close still stands: S&P +0.86%, Dow +0.98%, Nasdaq +0.96%, oil down 2.37% to $100.05, even as the fight over the Red Sea kept getting worse through the day.

• Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay calling for an immediate AI slowdown, warning rogue agent swarms could take over the internet within six months. Hours later Sam Altman told Fortune that OpenAI is delaying its IPO past 2026 over the same safety worries.

• Kathy Hochul pardoned a convicted noncitizen facing deportation, a move Fox News says effectively moots a Supreme Court case on immigration detention bond hearings before the justices even rule.

• A federal court rejected the Trump administration's emergency order keeping a Michigan coal plant running past retirement, and a separate ruling blocked the plan to gut FEMA's workforce.

• Update: Trump said Saturday he has no intention of fighting the Houthis in the Red Sea, even as the group's advance forced Saudi Arabia to shut a major oil pipeline after a drone strike from Iraq.

👀 OVERNIGHT: a Chinese national is charged with hacking DHS border-station computers. Blizzard announced Diablo V and a new StarCraft shooter. A man livestreamed himself tearing out Flock surveillance cameras and got arrested for it.

Jeremy Thomas, the British producer behind The Last Emperor and Sexy Beast, died at 77.

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Jeremy Thomas, Oscar-winning producer, dies at 77

Thomas worked at the intersection of art-house and commerce—rare and durable territory. His filmography speaks for itself; his legacy is the directors he enabled to make the films they needed to make.

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Red Sea oil routes fracturing. North Korea tests missiles. Trump courts Irish unity. AI researchers panic.

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Meanwhile, Trump said Irish unification would be fantastic—breaking 30 years of official US neutrality on the issue. The statement landed as background noise. It shouldn't have.