The Trump administration gave Anthropic 90 minutes on Friday to pull down its most powerful models before imposing a licensing regime on the company, according to an Anthropic source.
Why it matters: It illustrates the mad dash within the government to react to warnings from Amazon and others about the models' capabilities.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is staking out his independence from President Trump ahead of a possible 2028 run for the White House, backing rivals to Trump-endorsed candidates in two high-profile Republican primaries.
Why it matters: Cruz is testing whether there's room in the Republican Party for a 2028 contender willing to break with a president who's maintained an iron grip on the party for the last decade.
The next great civil rights battle may be whether America's old racial categories can keep up with its future.
Why it matters: The U.S. is heading toward a more Latino, Asian, Black immigrant and multiracial future — and the rules for counting race will help decide who gets political power, civil rights protections and public resources.
A pivotal series of decisions in the next few months will determine the shape of U.S. vaccine policy for years to come — and influence American's perceptions of the shots as a public health tool.
Why it matters: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office promising to restore public trust in vaccines and to scrutinize the medical and pharmaceutical establishment. But his boldest moves have drawn political blowback, along with charges that he's spreading misinformation and debunked theories.
Planet Earth has roughly 180 currencies. But for a vast share of global transactions, people want to use just one: the United States dollar.
Why it matters: This is a unique source of global power and responsibility. America's role in the world in the decades to come will be determined by its ability to maintain, and wisely steward, this role at the center of the global economy.
ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios.
Why it matters: President Trump's decades-long push to root out alleged noncitizen voting has evolved into a multi-agency effort reaching into state and local voter systems.
White students now make up less than half of all Americans enrolled in school from nursery through graduate programs, according to an Axios analysis of new U.S. Census data.
