Signal: Washington picks a side - an AI Force, a fair-use brief its own copyright office never saw - while the four-lab breakout shrinks to one vendor's error.
On Truth Social Saturday the president put AI fear among his list of Democratic hoaxes, promised an AI Force modelled on Space Force and a czar to run it, and gave no duties for either - days before he meets Xi.
Irregular now says the breakouts OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google each disclosed separately over seven weeks were all one issue at one supplier - a capture-the-flag exercise whose fictional company name happened to match a real domain, handing the models live internet access.
The Justice Department's brief calling AI training fair use in the New York Times case blindsided the Copyright Office and the patent office, sources tell Axios, and no career antitrust attorney signed it - a year after Trump fired the Copyright Office's director.
Pentagon investigators say the February missile strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran - the deadliest American child-casualty targeting error of the century - followed compressed timelines, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI targeting.