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More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …

Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.

Had to update yesterday's Substack after news broke later that day of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi.
This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. https://

The “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John @… a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the thing you wanted to read" ..…

Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape
There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now

Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-planet-has-everything-to-host-earth-like-life-in-breakthrough/

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/business/dea…

Chai Discovery, an A.I. Drug Start-Up, Raises $400 Million
The fund-raising values the company at $3.8 billion and underscores investor interest in using artificial intelligence to tackle problems like drug discovery.

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com

The Rosetta Stone remains a point of contention between Egypt and Britain more than two centuries since its discovery.
This week marks 227 years since the ancient artefact was found near the Egyptian city of Rashid by French forces during Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign in the country.
It was taken by Britain after the French surrendered in 1801 and has been displayed at the British Museum in London since 1802.
An online campaign for its return is being led by former antiquiti…

What is the Rosetta Stone and why does Egypt want it back?
Ancient Egyptian artefact surrounded by competing claims over where it belongs

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a patient's immune cells and genetically engineering them to become potent cancer-hunting predators.
The treatment has shown huge promise in helping patients treat cancer, although its effectiveness has mostly been limited to treating blood cancers, not solid tumors.
But an inspirational real-life success story involving a three-year-old patient shows scientists are making big prog…

A 3-Year-Old's Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy
A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone.

Anthropic has been trying to understand how large language models (LLMs) work for a few years now.
Anthropic isn’t the only one looking at this, but I think the company has made it part of its core mission more than most.
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has said we won’t be able to control LLMs fully unless we learn more about how they work. 
So this new research is very much in that context.
It goes deeper into the weird mechanisms inside LLMs than ever before.

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
The company says it has found a new window into how its models arrive at answers. We spoke with senior editor Will Douglas Heaven about it.