Republican Senator Jon Husted dismissed his political director Stephen Woytek after The Washington Post revealed Woytek had previously used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile picture. The campaign confirmed it would part ways with the staffer following the disclosure.
Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic who previously worked at OpenAI, resigned and publicly warned that AI companies are racing to build technologies that "could kill us all by the end of the decade." Multiple other Anthropic researchers publicly agreed with his warning, while critics including Elon Musk dismissed the claims and the Washington Post downplayed the threat.
Top military commanders privately warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonged operations in Iran have strained materiel and personnel to unsustainable levels, according to a leaked classified assessment reported by The Washington Post.
