Judge Says Trump Has Not Intervened in Musk SEC Lawsuit
A U.S. district judge stated this week that Donald Trump has not intervened to halt a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Elon Musk regarding his 2022 Twitter takeover, according to Ars Technica. The SEC filed the lawsuit during the final days of the Biden administration, seeking $150 million in disgorgement, interest, civil penalties, and an injunction to prevent Musk from future misconduct.
The complaint alleges that Musk acquired a 9 percent stake in Twitter without making timely disclosures to alert other investors of a potential change in company control. This allowed Musk to acquire over 70 million shares at an artificially low price, according to the SEC.
ICE Under Scrutiny for Alleged Database of Protesters
In other news, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a domestic terrorists database that lists U.S. citizens who protest ICE's immigration crackdown, Ars Technica reported. Markey stated in a letter to Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons that ICE officers and senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly suggested that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is building such a database. "If such a database exists, it would constitute a grave and unacceptable constitutional violation," Markey wrote. "I urge you to immediately" respond to the request.
Senate Report Criticizes Trump Administration's Handling of Medical Research
A Senate report released by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) concluded that the Trump administration was "destroying medical research," according to Ars Technica. The report was released during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) hearing where Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration, testified.
LLMs and the "Brownie Recipe Problem"
VentureBeat reported on the challenges Large Language Models (LLMs) face with context in real-time ordering systems. Instacart CTO Anirban Kundu described it as the "brownie recipe problem." According to Kundu, for an LLM to be truly assistive when planning a meal, it must go beyond a simple directive like "I want to make brownies" and understand what's available in the user's market based on their preferences and what's deliverable in their geography. Instacart aims to provide these experiences in less than one second.
CIA's "The World Factbook" Sunset
Hacker News reported that one of the CIA's oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, "The World Factbook," has sunset. "The World Factbook" served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. The original classified publication, titled "The National Basic Intelligence Factbook," launched in 1962. The first unclassified companion version was issued in 1971, and it was renamed "The World Factbook" a decade later. In 1997, "The World Factbook" went digital and debuted to a worldwide audience on the CIA website.
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