California AG Rob Bonta and a 27-member coalition urged the EPA to drop a proposal that could end federal limits on power-plant greenhouse gases. They say it violates the Clean Air Act and ignores climate, grid and cost impacts.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is threatening to sue ICE over reports agents used New York City park lots as staging areas, including near a preschool. The city is training staff to deny access without a warrant; DHS says the operations are lawful.

AI-generated deepfakes are fueling harassment and reputational attacks on women, with nearly one in four women in public-facing roles affected. New EU rules and tools from Apple, Google and OpenAI aim to make synthetic content easier to detect and verify.

Trump has delivered some promised rollbacks, but rising costs and disrupted markets are squeezing farmers and communities that backed him. As economic frustration grows, even reliably Republican areas are becoming competitive ahead of the 2026 midterms.

OpenAI says 250 million people use ChatGPT’s Voice or Dictation tools weekly—about one in five of its reported 1.2 billion weekly users. The figures are company estimates, not independently verified, and combine two distinct features.

The EPA is ending a 2005 agreement with about 2,600 livestock operations, saying the study data are too old and limited to produce reliable emissions estimates. Farm groups welcomed the move, which removes lingering regulatory uncertainty.

China is making AI a strategic priority as it competes with the U.S., but America leads in chips, frontier models, cloud and investment. U.S. tech giants spent over $400 billion on capital in 2025, versus China’s $63 billion; Xi has urged wider domestic AI use.

Securitize added 13 U.S.-listed stocks to its Solana tokenized-stock offering, doubling the lineup to 25. Tokens represent shares held in custody and trade in USDC; 24/7 access remains a plan, with no launch date.

OpenAI’s Pentagon work could be worth up to $200 million, with classified deployments and ChatGPT access for millions of military users. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper will advise the effort as scrutiny grows over safeguards against surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Rural Americans who die of heart attacks are nearly three times as likely as urban residents to die before reaching a hospital, a study of 2.5 million deaths found. Researchers cite possible access barriers; the preliminary findings don’t prove causes.