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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn't want to stop his competitors' progress; he just wants to slow it down.

From Judge Maragaret Garnett (S.D.N.Y.) in Amin v.

NA The Cato Institute, Stanford law Prof.

Fourteen years ago, Ken Jouppi, who had operated a charter airplane business in Alaska since the 1970s, agreed to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to Beaver, one of the state's dry jurisdictions.

Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley has taken his anti-fraud crusade to California, but a recently passed law, coined by conservatives as the "Stop Nick Shirley Act," is threatening to derail him, or so he says.

Walters v.

From today's decision by Judge Thomas Durkin (N.D.

Hating data centers might be misguided, but it's also ubiquitous, at least in the U.S.

OpenAI and Anthropic agree: AI safety and "alignment" concerns have been brewing for a long time, but they reached a fever pitch last week as several Anthropic employees' tweets went viral.

From In the Matter of Darney v.

From Reuters (Mike Scarcella) last week, linked to yesterday by David Lat (Original Jurisdiction): The judge, Lawrence Wheeler of the District Court of Stephens ‌County, told an investigator with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that he used Ope…

9/14/1901: President Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated.

For much of human history, moving house has been a death-defying ordeal.

Immigrant-owned small businesses in East Harlem that spoke out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan for city-owned supermarkets say they are suddenly receiving more New York City sanitation fines than normal, and some believe it is retaliation.

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Illustration: Midjourney I have previously written about Trump's harmful and illegal imposition of Section 338 tariffs against various Canadian imports, and his recent expansion of those actions to include categorical bans on some Canadian products.

9/13/1810: Justice William Cushing died.

European cars are now tasked with more than just moving people from one locale to another.

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This past Wednesday, Jeffrey Sutton, Chief Judge of the U.S.

John Ream is trying to do something that should be straightforward: distill his own alcohol.

9/12/1958: Cooper v.

When President Donald Trump announced a takeover of the John F.

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An excerpt from the long opinion today in Lewis-Williams v.

On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in Missouri's controversial redistricting battle, backing the Missouri Supreme Court's decision that the state could not use a congressional map drafted by the state's Republican Gov.

California, a state once brimming with optimism for a free and open internet, is now leading the country in online safety regulation.

A 5th Circuit case that casts doubt on the constitutionality of many federal statutes began with a brawl in New Orleans on a Thursday afternoon in February 2024.

For the second time this year, James Talarico, the Texas Democratic candidate for the U.S.

DALLAS—How did Republicans at the GOP midterm convention feel about President Donald Trump's offer to send every American adult a $5,000 check?

Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) last Friday barring federal immigration officers from retaliating against a Springfield, Ohio, man for recording them.

If the U.S. wins the AI race against China, it might have South Korea to thank.

The article is here; the Introduction: Judge Mark E.

So the Tenth Circuit held Wednesday, in Black Emergency Response Team v.

One of the more unusual, and controversial, elements of the Trump Administration's energy policy has been to force some coal plants slated for closure to remain open and operational.

From his post last week: I received the two emails below earlier in the month.