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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
The Senate bans senators from prediction markets.

In a unanimous vote, the Senate passed a rule on Thursday that bars senators and their staff from trading on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, effective immediately, as CNBC reports. The ban follows growing concerns about insider trading — earlier this month, Kalshi banned three political candidates for bets related to their races.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI adds stronger security features for users at high-risk of hacks.

Users who enroll in the startup’s advanced account security settings can sign into their ChatGPT and Codex accounts using passkeys or physical security keys, and will also receive alerts about new logins to their accounts. OpenAI also automatically excludes users with the setting enabled from AI model training.

With Saros, Housemarque makes a case for doing next-gen games differently

‘Realism is not interesting to pursue,’ and other lessons from the PlayStation studio.

Joshua Rivera
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Birchall cross.

He was used, I think, to get financial documents into the record. We are now on the cross, and he is giving mercifully brief and direct answers.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Waymo is ‘backsliding,’ emergency responders say.

Emergency response officials from San Francisco and Austin met with regulators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a private meeting last month to clear the air about robotaxis, according to a recording obtained by Wired. Waymo vehicles are “freezing” in front of fire stations and committing more traffic violations, the officials said. Waymo declined to attend the meeting.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Birchall has just been asked about the four Teslas.

There is a confirmation document from Chris Clark to Elon Musk showing the donation values. The donation was to OpenAI, as agreed in the stipulated facts, and in conflict to what Musk testified today.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
A woman in the gallery has lowered a sleep mask over her eyes and is attempting to sleep.

I guess she isn’t into Birchall’s testimony about Musk’s charitable contributions?

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Musk steps down. He may be recalled.

Jared Birchall’s testimony will begin. Birchall runs Musk’s family office, Excession LLC, and generally serves as his fixer.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
We are on re-cross. Musk is getting testy again.

Savitt asked about Musk’s $1 billion funding commitment. When did Musk stop funding OpenAI? 2020. And that was when they broke the deal? No, I was uncomfortable. (some crosstalk)
Musk: “I understand leading questions. That’s a leading answer.”
YGR: He can lead. He can lead all he wants. Let’s remind everyone you are not a lawyer and you’ve never taken a class in evidence.
Musk: “I did take law 101 technically, but yes I am not a lawyer.”

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
I guess Casey Means didn’t have enough good energy.

Instead, President Trump said he’s nominating Dr. Nicole Saphier for surgeon general. While Saphier doesn’t appear to be running the wellness grifter playbook and does, in fact, have a current medical license, she’s also a Fox News commentator with a MAHA-derate stance on vaccines. When will my suffering end?