Connie Guglielmo

Silicon Valley-based reporter, commentator. Formerly w/CNET, Forbes, Bloomberg. Every day, an adventure. I believe in facts and taking time to pay attention.

[Liz Landers @ElizLanders]

One of my favorite stories I’ve ever covered:

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Pentagon forced out the editor at Stars and Stripes, the military publication with a long record of editorial independence. Find out why on the Reuters World News podcast https://t.co/XkaIdvJPGp

[Bloomberg @business]

“I’m told the CIA does have a recruiting problem at the moment, but that may be because there has recently- I think, rather shockingly- been a purge of senior officers on the basis of their degree of loyalty to MAGA republicanism,” Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6 tells @EenaRuffini on Bloomberg This Weekend

[ProPublica @propublica]

The Trump administration has granted Clean Air Act exemptions to about 200 polluting facilities across 39 states and Puerto Rico.

On Aug. 25, join ProPublica, @chicagotribune and @deepsouthtoday to discuss what this means for public health.

📌 RSVP: https://t.co/XxLPErBw3n

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump reported a staggering 1,051 trades in his June financial disclosure. Here are two of the more curious ones:

— June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract for P-8A training systems.

— June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX.

[CNN @CNN]

Deleted tweets show Natalie Harp’s zealous support of Trump on January 6 https://t.co/I8hN12rDO5

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"Stars & Stripes has historically been free of military interference. That’s the standard that was put into place by General Dwight Eisenhower during World War II, and we’ve always been proud of that, to reaffirm that standard and report for service members and their families"

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING NYT:

A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month. https://t.co/E8uqezRmTB

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

Over one-third of recently published pages on the internet may have been written or substantially edited by #AI.

In a July 2026 snapshot of webpages, 35% of the pages that were published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of AI authorship.

[CNN @CNN]

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Donald Trump, sources say.

The Navy is looking instead to rename another warship after Doris Miller, according to one of the sources, and is recommending him for the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration for military valor. https://t.co/zRIAdK1L3N

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

NEW: Days after announcing it had received ICE contracts that could pay it $165m/year to detain immigrants, the private prison company the GEO Group donated $1.4m to the Trump-backed MAGA Inc. super PAC. 
https://t.co/YP39igaiCI

[Joe Flint @JBFlint]

In ABC's lawsuit against the FCC, the Disney-owned network says FCC wanted "all internal communications among The View’s booking staff, its segment producers, its Executive Producer, and its on-air co-hosts discussing any candidate over a two-year period, together with the messages that two named cohosts had sent to the program’s Executive Producer about a single booking decision. The same letter demanded that ABC disclose the political donations of individual employees and co-hosts— including an itemized four-year list of every donation and the date of each—and produce ABC’s internal guidance on how its journalists book and conduct interviews."

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

CASUALTY COUNT CLIMBS: Further American service members wounded in the Iran war were added to the Pentagon’s count of military casualties in recent days, bringing the total number of service members killed or injured to 775.
https://t.co/wOnbv7wTpA

[CNN @CNN]

Trump officials touted a voter fraud bombshell. Their data hasn't proved it https://t.co/75d9AKQrW0

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Peggy Noonan goes to town on Trump and his kleptocracy. I gifted this so you can read it.

"And there’s the sheer scale: The extraordinary becomes ordinary through repetition; scandals add up and become a blur, not a call to action. But the country pays a cost for all this. Institutionally, everything happening today sets a precedent. Every abuse we accept widens the range of possible misbehavior for the next administration.

Corruption is more dangerous, has a more deteriorating effect, than bad policy. Bad policy can be reversed. Corruption works its way into a system and changes its nature.

Suppose a Republican president leaves office having established that a president can use regulatory powers against antagonistic institutions, exert pressures on companies needing government approval, and demand personal loyalty throughout the executive branch, all with no lasting repercussions. The next administration, disposed in other ideological directions, inherits the precedents. It says turnabout is fair play."
https://t.co/Y7v4eX4AgB

[Forbes @Forbes]

U.S. Navy officials are considering naming an under-construction aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump, according to two reports, in a move that would undo plans to name the vessel after World War 2 hero Doris Miller—the first Black sailor to be awarded the Navy Cross.
Read more: https://t.co/pIEUTafkth
Photo: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

[Rod @rodjnaquin]

Dan's argument is sharper than "use AI carefully." His real claim: students should only use AI for things they already know how to do *well*. Not brainstorm-with-AI-but-draft-yourself, which is basically what every district policy says. He argues that's the wrong line entirely.

His point is that those policies borrow a workplace model — AI as associate, student as lead, product is the thing. But for students, the product isn't the point. The essay itself has no value; it exists so the student practices building an argument, integrating sources, thinking like a reader. Skip that mental work and the assignment is hollow, even if the output looks great.

So his real test isn't "how much AI is too much" — it's "would doing this yourself teach you something." If yes, no AI. If you've already mastered it and repeating it teaches nothing, AI's fine — like a calculator once you know arithmetic.

I like this argument a lot.

And I noticed he never once says "offloading." That word already carries a verdict — like something was shirked. Dan just asks whether a step was a *learning* step or a merely *supportive* one.

That's why it matters to me. Most discourse treats any AI use as offloading — a small moral failure — instead of asking Dan's actual question, which is whether that specific step is where the learning happens. His framing lets the answer be boring and mixed: fine here, real cost there. https://t.co/E1AZ00frip

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

AI-authored content has become increasingly common online, but where is it coming from?

This growth has been driven almost entirely by commercial (.com) websites.
#AIContent #AIAuthorship

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: 2nd Circuit rules 2-1 that Rick Sarcone was illegally appointed as interim U.S. attorney when he obtained grand jury subpoenas related to Letitia James.

Majority: Calabresi (Clinton), Kahn (Biden)

Dissent: Park (Trump) https://t.co/2SXJC1aj3W

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

"Trump officials touted a voter fraud bombshell. Their data hasn’t proved it." @GabeCohenNews on a claim from the secretary of Homeland Security: https://t.co/3c9FjDrJ1U