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[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

I share concerns about China’s access to advanced AI models, but if the admin feels so strongly about this, I have a series of questions it should answer:

- Why did it loosen export controls to allow AI chip sales to China, which allow China to build its own Mythos?
- Why is it not enforcing existing export controls that would prevent China from smuggling AI chips from Southeast Asia and other countries?
- Why is it not enforcing existing export controls that would prohibit Chinese companies from training advanced AI models on remotely accessed AI chips? Or imposing tighter controls on remote access?
- Why has it still not closed a loophole it created that allows Chinese front companies outside China from making AI chips at TSMC or Samsung?
- Why has it not tightened controls on China’s access to semiconductor manufacturing equipment (which have not been updated in over 18 months - the longest the US has ever gone without updating them)?
- Why has it not imposed equivalent controls on all advanced AI models being served to China/Chinese companies?
- Why did it restrict access to all countries and foreign nationals accessing Mythos/Fable, not just China?

If the admin was serious about addressing the challenges posed by China in AI, it would be using export controls to address all of these questions and build a comprehensive strategy to prevent China from building or obtaining advanced models. But over the last 1.5 years, it has loosened or ignored controls on China, and only opened new loopholes in controls it inherited. If the admin truly has deep concerns about China’s access to advanced models, it has to act accordingly. It isn’t.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

BREAKING: President Trump says the US has assassinated the leader of Tren De Aragua.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The UAE has agreed to release billions of dollars to Iran as Iran and the US move closer to a deal to end the war.

Two regional sources told Reuters the UAE had agreed to release a total of $10 billion, more than $3 billion of which had already been delivered.

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

Absolutely massive scoop by @emilypont: The Trump administration is giving up defending the president's offshore wind permitting freeze in court

https://t.co/tSFvH8Z88e

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Flying under the radar due to other news, but two of the UK's highest-ranking defence officials, the Armed Forces Minister and Defence Secretary, quit today over the chronic underfunding of the British military.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

In case you missed it:
Ramy Abdu of Euro-Med Monitor, who was the originator of the @NickKristof @nytimes "rape dog" story, has twice personally vouched that IDF-killed military commanders were innocent civilians. In both cases, PIJ itself later admitted they were commanders.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A senior U.S. official says that an Iranian drone collided with the US Army Apache that went down near the Strait of Hormuz yesterday -N12

US investigators have not yet determined whether the mid-air collision was intentional.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Donald Trump has announced that Iran was responsible for shooting down a US helicopter last night, stating that the United States must respond to the attack.
​I'm confused. Just two days ago, Trump demanded that Israel refrain from retaliating against Iran because their attack resulted in zero casualties. Why is there a sudden double standard when it comes to a US response?

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Following the downing of a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has said that the Apache was in fact shot down while patrolling over the strait. Additionally, President Trump vowed to retaliate for the attack, saying that a response is a “necessity.”

[Shlomo Schorr @OneJerseySchorr]

PSE&G - the gas and electricity provider for much of North and Central Jersey - announced that it will cut gas bills by an average of 5%, effective October 1st, the company announced.

Nearly 2 million New Jersey residents could see their natural gas and home heating bills drop this year, despite high electricity costs and the rising price of motor fuel.

Natural gas is widely used for home heating, cooking and water.

[CNN @CNN]

After the drastic change in guidance to no longer keep allergenic foods away from babies until 1 to 3 years of age and instead introduce them by 6 months of age, the prevalence of egg allergy among children fell by more than 17% in a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. https://t.co/DAYqlFom8N

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 The Supreme Court left in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that the federal felon-in-possession firearm law cannot be applied to a Mississippi man whose only felony conviction was nonpayment of child support.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

In the last few months, PIJ and Hamas have been releasing obituaries on commanders killed during the war. Interesting to look back how those deaths were covered.

Ex:

In June 2024, Reuters reported on an air strike killing Palestinian soccer player Ahmed Abu Al-Atta. Now PIJ confirms he was a deputy platoon commander in the rocket unit.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Iranian forces have fired a number of medium-range ballistic missiles at Israel today, conducting coordinated launches from at least 8 different locations so far.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Israeli source says that the targets were privately aligned with the U.S. to send a warning to Tehran while still giving the IRGC an out. Much harsher and direct regime targets are prepared in case the IRGC chooses to climb the escalation ladder.

A message conveying this is also being passed to Iran via 3rd parties.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Absolutely necessary response. You cannot have a deterrence equation where a response to Hezbollah missiles results in an IRGC attack without any consequences.

The regime in Tehran must think twice before launching missiles moving forward.