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„Seien Sie still“ – Trump flippt aus, weil eine CNN-Reporterin nachfragt, ob er Militärübungen mit Südkorea zurückgefahren hat, weil Kim Jong-un ihn darum gebeten hat. Statt Antwort: „Fake-Reporterin“, Beschimpfungen, das WH-Team nennt Journalisten „Abschaum“.
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USA: „Seien Sie still“ – Donald Trump spricht über Kim Jong-un und fährt dann Reporterin an
Trump lobt sein Verhältnis zu Kim Jong-un. Als eine CNN-Reporterin nach Gesprächen mit Nordkoreas Machthaber fragt, reagiert der US-Präsident wütend. Bereits zuvor hatte er die Reporterin für eine Frage nach einer Mitarbeiterin kritisiert.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-LGBTQ slur completely unprompted at an Iowa State Fair on Monday,
referring to transgender people as “trannies.”
“At the Department of War, we do training, not trannies,”
he said at a Salute to the Troops military fundraiser at the fair, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported.
The event was initially supposed to be in March, but was delayed when two Iowa service members were killed in an Iranian airstrike that Hegseth downplayed…

Pete Hegseth Casually Tosses Out a Slur at Iowa State Fair
The defense secretary used an anti-trans slur completely unprompted.

OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-gener…

Q&A with California AG Rob Bonta about why David Ellison is "desperate", some Hollywood guilds supporting Paramount's WBD deal, concerns about CNN, and more (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
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California AG Rob Bonta Says David Ellison Is “Desperate” and “Grasping at Straws”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bonta took aim at the Paramount chief and emerging legal rival: “He cannot flee accountability."

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An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability
for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes
used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.”
The man, who was hired by the industrial product conglomerate 3M, exposed his AI prompts publicly.
They showed that he asked ChatGPT to help him “create an exceptional expert witness report defending the standard of care at 3M,”
and that the report should “s…

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-…

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

HD Media of Charleston, WV, has agreed to acquire 25 community newspapers serving Indiana and Ohio from AIM Media Management, effective September 1 (The Daily Reporter)
https://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2026/08/19/hd-media-to-acquire-a…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117294320537888857
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that more American service members have died in the war on Iran than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed;
CNN revealed that an “entirely false” intelligence report about a Chi…

A White House post targeted Kristen Holmes, a senior White House correspondent for CNN,
after she asked Donald Trump to respond to a widely shared comment by Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in a speech on Sunday.
The Georgia senator told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job”
and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”.
The comment was an apparent reference to Natali…

White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trump
CNN says attack ‘beneath the office’ after Kristen Holmes asked president about Jon Ossoff’s comments on key aide