Inner Loop

Despite weeks of renewed press coverage and controversy around ICE, Donald Trump’s supporters appear to be standing by the agency no matter what.

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

Political operatives in Trumpworld hope that US Senate candidate Graham Platner stays in the race as long as possible.

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic’s CEO—a “weirdo,” per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model’s guardrails can’t be circumvented. Security experts say that can’t be done.

The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a lobbying extravaganza.

The man who headed Trump’s invasions of US cities joined the US and European far-right in Portugal to preach “remigration”—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.

“Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there.