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DOGE Has the Keys to Sensitive Data That Could Help Elon Musk  (Desmond Butler, Jonathan O’Connell, Hannah Natanson and Aaron Gregg, Washington Post)
A Washington Post review found that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE secured the power to view records that experts say could benefit Musk’s businesses for years.

Catholic Bishops Try to Rally Opposition to Trump’s Immigration Agenda  (Elizabeth Dias, New York Times)
Leading prelates are expressing outrage at the drive toward mass deportation.

Appeals Court Seems Likely to Back Trump’s Deportations Under Wartime Law  (Jeremy Roebuck, Washington Post)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard arguments Monday on the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act in a case probably bound for the Supreme Court.

Trump Says Ice Is Arresting the ‘Worst of the Worst’ —New Data Shows That’s Not True  (David J. Bier, MSNBC / Cato)
Serious criminal convicts are a small minority of the people taken into custody by ICE. The vast majority of detainees have no convictions at all.

We Asked 5 AI Models to Fact-Check Trump. Here’s What We Learned. (Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian, Washington Post)
Trump appears to support AI, but that does not mean AI supports him, as our recent AI analysis of some of the president’s many questionable public statements shows.
Artificial intelligence discredited all the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking the president with startling accuracy and objective rigor.

The five AI models found Trump to be a falsifier of facts, a disseminator of untruths. How would Trump respond to the near-unanimous denial of his claims by the five AI models? Probably the way he always reacts to unfavorable news —by discrediting the dissent. But would he disavow the technology he is decisively promoting?
The simple truth our analysis points to is this: Either the president is wrong, or the technology is a failure.

In Dramatic Reversal, Senate Kills AI-law Moratorium  (Will Oremus, Washington Post)
A GOP-led bid to stop states from regulating AI collapsed after a deal to save it fell through, handing Silicon Valley a painful defeat.

Pentagon Will No Longer Share Satellite Data That Tracks Hurricanes Overnight (Scott Dance, Washington Post)
Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting rapid intensification of storms.