Last week, the Washington Post reported that incoming DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy will soon announce his candidacy for the 2026 Ohio gubernatorial race. After the H1-B Christmas Battle of 2024, in which Vivek tweeted a long, elitist tirade, saying “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence,” and claiming immigrant parents raise more competent children than native-born Americans, he removed himself (or has been removed) from the spotlight, leaving rumors of his private political downfall to swirl on X. Does his run for Ohio governor signal his ouster from Trump’s inner circle? Hard to say, but it’s pretty tough to call yourself a populist after showing your blatant disdain for the populace. But who knows, maybe the fine people of the Buckeye State will love him. After all, there’s nothing Ohioans love more than importing foreign workers because leadership thinks they’re too lazy and stupid to get important work done, right?

Friday, Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that alleges his personal $1 million donation to Trump's inaugural fund is evidence of OpenAI “cozying up” to the incoming administration for “favors.” (Odd, Sam noted in reply, that he never received one of those letters after giving money to the Democrats) “Reporting confirmed your intention to personally donate $1 million to the inaugural fund,” writes Warren, and “[we're] concerned [OpenAI] and other Big Tech donors are using your massive contributions to... buy favor.” Warren closes with a demand that OpenAI explain why it donated to Trump’s inaugural fund, a fact error so extreme it renders her letter incoherent (the company didn’t donate). But the tacit demand that America’s wealthiest tech CEOs only support Democrats is nonetheless concerning. Why, if I didn’t know any better I’d say we were living in an oligarchy. But that would just be crazy.

Last week, Apple suspended its AI-powered news summarizer following a string of incidents where, after attempting to condense news headlines, it invented a bunch of crazy shit and pushed it to iPhone users. The BBC in particular was furious after its branding was included on a notification that Luigi Mangione shot himself (funny, but understandably infuriating). In response, a Journalists Without Borders spokesperson warned “innovation must never come at the expense of reliable information.” Which certainly sounds nice! Unfortunately, half our news stories are already unreliable, and Apple’s glitch is still not quite as bad as our government’s erroneous texts on nuke attacks in Hawaii, and evacuation orders for the entire county of LA (population 10 million) — a class of information that actually impacts our lives. I’m not saying Apple didn’t screw this up, but there are a lot of screwups out there. I just wish the journalists were more mad about those.

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