Wall Street Journal:
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal  —  Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals—and went over their heads if they pushed back

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war  —  The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war.  Company executives argue that's impossible.

David Jeans / Reuters:
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military  —  Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary …

Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks  —  It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others.  —  Learn more.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a Federal Trade Commission order barring TurboTax maker Intuit (INTU.O) …