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01.16.26
SECURITY
Why ICE Can Kill With Impunity
BY LILA HASSAN | 7-MINUTE READ
Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.
POLITICS
Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’
BY MAKENA KELLY AND LEAH FEIGER | 4-MINUTE READ
The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.
BUSINESS
Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
BY MAXWELL ZEFF AND ZOË SCHIFFER | 4-MINUTE READ
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
BY MATT BURGESS | 4-MINUTE READ
X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Is an AI Agent That Actually Works
BY REECE ROGERS | 4-MINUTE READ
Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI-powered tool that’s built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here’s what it's like to use it.
SCIENCE
OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs
BY EMILY MULLIN | 2-MINUTE READ
Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
GEAR
Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning
BY BOONE ASHWORTH | 5-MINUTE READ
Users of the VR fitness service are distraught that Supernatural has had its staff cut and won’t receive any more content updates. They’re also pissed at Meta.
HEALTH
RFK Jr. Says He’s Ending the War on Protein. It Doesn’t Exist
BY SAM EAGAN | 3-MINUTE READ
There is no war on protein. But pretending there is goes hand-in-hand with the Trump administration’s appeal to traditional masculinity.
DEAL OF THE DAY
The OnePlus Watch 3 Can Run for 16 Days on One Charge—and It’s on Sale
BY BRAD BOURQUE | 1-MINUTE READ
Save some cash on this Wear OS smartwatch with a revolutionary battery that can go for five days on a charge (16 days on low-power mode).
