My latest investigation: Inside Google's AI Push Into American Schools "It Slowed My Thinking Down." Students are becoming academically and emotionally dependent on AI, in large part thanks to Google's push in schools. Gift link:

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Wild WSJ story on the super rich's wealth growth since 2019: "The ultrawealthy’s recent gains from the stock market dwarf the total wealth of the bottom 50% of all Americans, which is about $4 trillion."

🚨🚨Are you holding on to your hats!!🚨🚨 @Axios has the most fun new job of all time (if you ask me personally!) We are adding a Politics Enterprise Editor in advance of 2028! Are you a creative junkie nerd who read “What It Takes” as a kid and lives and breathes this stuff? I want to talk! Serious inquiries please! dj@axios.com

New w/ @hollyotterbein Dem in some of this year's most critical seats have sent a message to AOC: We don't want you to campaign for us. Could undermine her electability argument in a 2028 campaign.

New: I asked AOC how she's thinking about the future of the progressive movement as she weighs a White House run. In the last two open Democratic presidential primaries, there's been a clear progressive standard-bearer, and many on the left think she's their only hope for 2028. She didn't seem persuaded that by that argument: "The movement is so much bigger than any one person." She suggested that her choice won't be solely about ideology: "These decisions aren't always about punditry or ideology. It's about putting the country first," she said. "What's important is ending … the corrupt reign of the Trump administration, as well as any of its acolytes." Asked whether that means she's weighing "electability" as she determines her next move, she replied, "I don't see who wouldn't."

SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios. The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed. The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment. Read my latest for Axios here:

"Anti-AIPAC" PAC says they're targeting 9 House Dems in 2028: @RitchieTorres @RepGLatimer @RepLauraGillen @RepTomSuozzi @RepMoskowitz @GregLandsman @Melissabeanil08 @AdrianBoafoMD @BenMcAdams @AIPAC says: "While anti-Israel dark money groups are focused on attacking AIPAC, our members are focused on strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship and helping elect more than 300 pro-Israel Democrats and Republicans across the country" Scoop via @hollyotterbein

One of the most controversial findings we've published at Split Ticket (at least among the left/center-left) was that women and minority candidates do *not* underperform. In 2024, women outperformed men in the House battlegrounds, in part because women have fewer scandals.

DraftKings developed an AI model to identify users most likely to lose money so that it could target them with promotions. When employees then developed a model that would have assigned “risk scores” based on users' likelihood to develop compulsive/addictive behaviors, the company sidelined it.

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵