Texas DOGE bill passes to streamline state regulations

Texas has passed a bill that would create an efficiency office much like the federal government’s Department of Government Efficiency started by President Donald Trump. Texas SB14 establishes the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office and, if passed into law, will attempt to streamline state regulations, reduce unnecessary rules and promises to make massive reductions to the … Read more

OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns

It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen AI-generated images representing … Read more

Lawsuit over Trump administration’s Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case

Five Cabinet members are facing a federal lawsuit over the use of Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen, with the case presided over by the same judge handling the case against the Trump administration over its deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is overseeing the deportation case, which … Read more

US projected to default this summer absent congressional action

The Congressional Budget Office warned on Wednesday that the government could run out of money to pay its bills as early as August or September if lawmakers fail to address the debt limit. “The government’s ability to borrow using extraordinary measures will probably be exhausted in August or September 2025,” the nonpartisan CBO report predicted. … Read more

Former intel officials: Signal chat did put troops at risk

The White House doubled down Wednesday on its insistence that its top national security officials did nothing wrong when they discussed a pending military strike in Yemen over a commercial messaging app known as Signal. Former military and intelligence officials, though, say there’s little doubt such exchanges never should have happened that way and warned … Read more