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The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/agency-and-agents

Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

Justice Gorsuch cited FCC chairman's threats against ABC as evidence of agency overreach in a SCOTUS ruling expanding presidential control over federal agencies (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pol

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Cites FCC Chairman’s Jimmy Kimmel Criticism as Evidence of Agency Overreach
In a landmark decision Monday, the Supreme Court overruled a decision that will give the President vastly more control over federal agencies.

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that
prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable
and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere,
-- including the U.S. homeland,
according to people familiar with a recent assessment prepared for the Pentagon chief.

The warnings
— detailed for Hegseth by the heads of the A…

Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Ryebank Fields: the battle against development continues
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/nature-and-wildlife/ryebank-fields-the-battle-against-development-continues/?fsp_sid=5087

Ryebank Fields: the battle against development continues
Green space, contamination fears, and local residents’ resistance: no end in sight in the battle to save Ryebank Fields

2026 NFL free agency tracker: Deebo Samuel to rejoin 49ers, seven of top 100 free agents still unsigned

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agency-tracker-best-unsigne…

On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 3-0 ruling against
Kalshi,
a ruling that in theory gives states the power to regulate the "prediction market" platform.
However strong that sounds,
one can't fairly characterize the decision as authoritative.
While the San Francisco–based court's unanimous ruling represents the most significant curtailment of the
"don't-call-it-gambling"
gambling platform,

Kalshi Lawsuit Pits States Against Trump Family's Corruption Machine | Defector
On Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 3-0 ruling against Kalshi, a ruling that in theory gives states the power to regulate the “prediction market” platform. However strong that sounds, one can’t fairly characterize the decision as authoritative. While the San Francisco–based court’s unanimous ruling represents the most significant curtailment of…

The Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250, a six-month cybersecurity pilot to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-texas-becomes-testing-gro…

FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America’s water systems
Project Watershed 250 pairs AI security tools with Texas water systems to find cyber vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them first.

People email Erin Brockovich all the time because of what happened in 1993,
when she was instrumental in suing Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on behalf of residents of the town of Hinkley, California,
whose groundwater had been contaminated.
The case resulted in a settlement of $333million
– then the largest ever payout for a direct-action lawsuit.
When she was immortalised by Julia Roberts in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich,
she became the he…

‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres
In 1993, she squeezed a $333m settlement from a Californian energy company in a scandal over contaminated water. Three decades later, she has a new target in her sights – and it’s global

Federal prosecutors say the reflecting pool damage was caused by
'botched' renovation, not vandalism,
as they ask to drop charges
In a court filing on Friday, the office of the US attorney in Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, moved to dismiss charges against David Hearn,
a former Olympian her office had accused on vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
In asking to dismiss the criminal indictment,
Pirro’s office told the DC Superior Court th…

Justice department moves to dismiss its charges against Olympian over reflecting pool
Lawyers now say damage to pool liner attributed to David Hearn instead is result of installation by contractor