Bill Gates Says Law Enforcement & Politicians Need to Define AI Regulations “No one thinks self-regulation is enough … you need law enforcement and politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like.”

Sam Altman calls for both closed and open AI models to comply with “international standards”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on potential dangers of AI: "First, we could lose control of the future to AI. The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed."

Nearly 4 minutes of $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang tearing into the AI doomsday narrative and explaining why he thinks the predictions don’t stand up to scrutiny.

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🚨 29 STATES SUE META OVER HARM TO KIDS The first major federal trial is underway. States accuse Meta of deliberately hooking children, harvesting their data, and ignoring the damage. A former Instagram executive testified that internal research showed serious harm to young users — bullying, sexual content, mental health damage — and the company did almost nothing about it. One in three teens surveyed said they witnessed bullying. One in five saw sexual images. Parents have been screaming about this for years. The lawsuits are finally catching up.

🚨 TEXAS SOUNDS THE ALARM ON DRONES Lawmakers just held a hearing on the growing drone threat. Expert testimony: A sophisticated drone can be built with parts bought online for as little as $600. It can fly for miles and is hard to detect. That same technology could be used to attack critical infrastructure right here at home. One expert put it bluntly: “In security terms, today is August 12th, 2001. We see the next 9/11 coming.” As of July, only 61 officers nationwide are federally certified to take these drones down. Texas needs to move fast.

Holy shit. "Quite frankly sir, I don't think we can make America great again without hanging your CEO publicly for treason."

Gun Owners of America Announced The First Lawful Transfer of Commercial Suppressors Completed Without NFA Registration since the NFA took Effect on June 26, 1934.

Without saying it, Iron Dome advancements and validation work will likely be critical for Golden Dome - the partnership with Israel is important and those who oppose it may not informed or don't understand how much more the U.S. Will benefit than #Israel. My .02 @RepThomasMassie @RealAlexJones @TuckerCarlson @JasonButtrill @glennbeck @grok

“Recent events in politics are reinvigorating conversations about ‘America First,’” Frank Pignanelli and Renae Cowley write.

🇺🇸 Trump draws a hard line in a July 4th eve speech, framing the culture war as a loyalty test: "You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both." Writers: Daniel, Lucas

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more. Happy Independence Day!

Satellite footage from NOAA shows the smoke plumes from Utah's wildfires, with the fastest-growing being the Cottonwood Fire in Beaver County.

Blake Moore Joins Warren and Bernie: You Pay for Our Campaigns! It looks like taxpayers just got billed by Congressman Blake Moore — for unsolicited campaign mailers and texts right before a primary, and his Chief of Staff is bragging about the loophole on X. This is after we, the taxpayers, have been paying for billboards all over town in the lead-up to a highly contested election that he very well may lose tomorrow. His chief’s defense? It’s legal. How is it unethical if the law says we can? And I’m a mom. Shut up. Still can’t figure out the mom comment, but seriously, we knew that Congress couldn’t care less what’s ethical or moral. But admitting it? So ... it is against federal law for a member of the House to send unsolicited mass communications from their official office within 60 days of an election in which they are a candidate. This is within SINGLE DIGIT days. So, these taxpayer funded communications are squarely inside the prohibited blackout period. But don’t you worry you silly taxpayers, there’s a loophole. They’re calling it “constituent communications.” And according to his chief, they’re making sure they send those texts and mailers in batches of 499. Under 500 is legal. So they’re crafting different messages, I assume, and batching those into groups of 499, which uses way more taxpayer funded staff time, energy, and effort than sending one mass email. But hey, it’s legal. So shut up and keep paying your taxes. And, don’t forget, I’m a mom.  What’s the difference at this point between Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Blake Moore when it comes to public funding of campaigns? Oh yeah, Blake apparently agrees that you should pay for them but he still wants to be able to raise millions on the side but hold onto that money as a personal slush fund, I guess, while taxpayers are forced to pay to for him and other members of Congress to propagandize us. Does this sound like the America YOU want to live in? Tell Blake Moore NO MOORE. Vote for @KariLisonbee.

The DoD's recent consolidated list has ~21 entries prefixed "Christian -" (Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Catholic, Church of Christ, Church of God, Nazarene, Episcopal/Anglican, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Methodist, Non-Denominational, Orthodox, Other, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Quaker, Reformed, Scientist, Seventh-day Adventist). None include the word "Jesus". Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is separate (code CJ). Reports differ on explicit grouping under "Christian."