NYTIMES (Jori Finkel) - How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself
A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Trump announces Iran deal expected to be signed Sunday, Hormuz Strait to reopen immediately after
"At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots," Trump writes
NPR (Fatima Al-Kassab) - Kennedy Center removes Trump's name from the building
Workers finished removing President Trump's name from the facade of the Kennedy Center early Saturday, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline to remove references to Trump from the building.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Mills Hayes) - SpaceX scores big as stock soars and people are starting to bet on it
SpaceX's value currently sits at more than $2 trillion.
AMERICANTHINKER - A German soccer fan discovers America
We have no reason to apologize for who and what we are.
AMERICANTHINKER - Mamdani rushes free chocolate condoms to ctizens of the Big Apple!
Women, low-income households, and black and Latino New Yorkers are adversely and disproportionately affected by a relative dearth of chocolate-flavored condoms?
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Andrew Day) - White House Bars Foreign Nationals From Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ AI
State of the Union: The technology company said it would disable Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for all customers. The post White House Bars Foreign Nationals From Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ AI appeared first on The American Conservative .
The U.S. government directed the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to block all non-Americans from using two of its most powerful models, the firm announced Friday. Anthropic said in a statement that it would cut off all customers’ access to the models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—to ensure compliance with the unprecedented directive. Mythos has alarmed U.S. officials because of its ability to exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities, helping drive the Trump administration to issue an executive order earlier this month requesting that AI firms grant the government early access to cutting-edge models. Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick had sent a letter to Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei on Friday informing him that the models would…Open
THEFEDERALIST (John Daniel Davidson) - ‘Sophie Of Dundee’ Has Been Vindicated, But It Won’t Change Anything In Britain
The hatchet-wielding Scottish girl was right, and her detractors were wrong. But there’ll be no apologies from the British elite.
BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - U.S. Votes To Legally Adopt Freddy The German
U.S. — The citizens of the United States have overwhelmingly voted to legally adopt the World Cup tourist known only as "Freddy the German."
NYTIMES (Alan Burdick) - The Scientific Quest for Perfect World Cup Pitch
Every match must be played on natural grass that gives players as consistent a surface as possible, no matter the venue. Cue the years of sod studies.