The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by book authors whose works were used without permission to train its chatbot. The company will compensate authors or publishers approximately $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books included in the settlement. However, Anthropic will be allowed to continue operating and retain the benefits derived from the unauthorized use of the books.
The assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of Utah college students shocked the nation and raised the prospect of a tit-for-tat series of retribution killings between the left and the right.
Trump keeps declaring one emergency after another. Aside from the fact that the American public is suffering from emergency exhaustion, you have to wonder how other countries, especially adversaries of the U.S., view our current predilection for catastrophizing everything.
As President Trump runs roughshod over norms and laws, extrajudicially murdering 11 alleged drug runners without evidence, deporting legal residents, and dispatching troops to peaceful American cities, all eyes turn to the Democrats who might oppose him. But they seem content to sit by idly and watch the mayhem.
The Trump Administration’s tactic is to brazenly violate the law and the Constitution, doing what it wants until the courts inevitably intervene. But even when the judicial branch steps in, more often than not, they follow their condemnation of the administration’s actions with a stay that suspends their decision to allow the government to come up with a justification for what they’re doing while allowing them to keep right on doing it.
When a war is about to begin or is just starting to kill countless combatants and innocent civilians, the American media can always be counted on to support it. They only advocate for peace when it’s far too late. This is the pattern we are witnessing now with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. After nearly two years and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian deaths, the American media is just beginning to express regret.
The Trump administration is deploying an increasing number of troops to the streets of American cities, such as Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, and potentially New York in the near future. This leaves our borders vulnerable, exposing us to the risk of a possible invasion.
Donald Trump is deploying National Guardsmen and regular military troops to the streets of some of America’s safest neighborhoods, despite reports of declining crime. This raises the question: what will the war medals of this generation of soldiers look like?
Democrats think of themselves as leading some sort of Resistance to Trump. Reality begs to differ.
Life in America is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate because nothing is as it seems. If a masked kidnapper steps out of a van to pull you inside, they might be a federal agent—or a criminal. Who can tell anymore?
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