Advocates for a proposed California billionaire tax said on Sunday they received enough signatures for the measure to appear on the ballot in November. Supporters say 1.6 million people have submitted signatures favoring the Billionaire Tax Act for approval, according to the Los Angeles Times. State law requires at least 874,641 registered voters to provide signatures to county elections officials by June 24, per the outlet. #Billionaire #Tax #GavinNewsom #California
Law enforcement agencies are executing multiple search warrants in Minnesota on Tuesday in connection with alleged fraud in the state’s welfare programs, according to federal officials. “Homeland Security Investigations in cooperation with our law enforcement partners executed criminal search warrants in Minneapolis relating to the rampant fraud of U.S. taxpayers dollars,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared in a post on social platform X. Read More: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5853085-federal-agents-minnesota-raids-welfare-fraud/ #dhs #minnesota #fraud
U.S. Cyber Command intends to test and deploy the strongest possible AI models, regardless of politics and even country of origin, the command's chief AI officer told Axios. Why it matters: Anthropic's models are pushing the frontier, but the company's fight with the Pentagon has complicated the rollout of its latest models within government. - Cyber Command is largely sidestepping that debate — building infrastructure designed to swap between models regardless of vendor or origin. - "To survive anywhere, just in case our operators want an open-source made-in-China model or something very boutique, we have to create the infrastructure and that ability to be agile — no politics," Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny, chief AI officer at Cyber…
U.S. Cyber Command intends to test and deploy the strongest possible AI models, regardless of politics and even country of origin, the command's chief AI officer told Axios. Why it matters: Anthropic's models are pushing the frontier, but the company's fight with the Pentagon has complicated the rollout of its latest models within government. - Cyber Command is largely sidestepping that debate — building infrastructure designed to swap between models regardless of vendor or origin. - "To survive anywhere, just in case our operators want an open-source made-in-China model or something very boutique, we have to create the infrastructure and that ability to be agile — no politics," Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny, chief AI officer at Cyber…Open
-Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declares the White House Correspondent Dinner shooting an attempted assassination. -Rob Schmitt: "It was easier to get into that hotel Saturday night than it would be to get into a minor league baseball game." -On "The Record with Greta Van Susteren," Sen. Fetterman says the White House ballroom needs to be built, adding, "you could have a lot more inclusive and frequent and secure — the most important — secure events just in a facility like that." -"Half the people in that room stoked this type of behavior." - Carl Higbie rips the liberal journalists who harp on their own "trauma" and refuse to see the accused gunman's motive. -“The Right Squad” breaks down the latest hateful and violent…
