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US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

In a secret deportation arrangement,
the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries,
to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and lawyers for the deportees,
and the United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon to accept deportees who hail from other nations.…

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

Deported on the way to see family in November:
Judge Recommends U.S. Issue Visa to Student Who Was Deported in Error - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/trump-immigration-student-deported-thanksgiving.html

Sources: Anderson Cooper has decided to pass on a renewal offer with CBS and leave 60 Minutes after almost 20 years with the newsmagazine show (Lachlan Cartwright/Breaker)
https://www.breakermedia.com/p/scoop-anderson-cooper-to-depart-60-minutes

🔎 SCOOP: Anderson Cooper To Depart 60 Minutes
Legendary Newsman Will Focus on CNN And Family

Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit "relates to a recent procurement decision" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/scale-ai-department-of-defens…

Scale AI is taking the Department of Defense to court, and some docs are expected to be classified
The nature of the dispute with the Department of Defense, including what Scale AI is seeking, is unclear.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret
-- Ignoring Legal Protections
Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries
-- so they were sent to detention in Cameroon
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/a

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.

A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating it as a "supply chain risk" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relations…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment
The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

The Trump administration has increasingly deported people
– including refugees
– to countries with which they have little or no connection,
often placing their lives in danger.
For years, Bhutan had refused to repatriate Bhutanese refugees,
and no public repatriation agreement between the two countries exists,
according to Aisa Villarosa, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, also involved in
ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation tie…

Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/862…

An OpenAI safety research lead departed for Anthropic
Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic’s alignment team.