Trump names intelligence director Clayton to lead an AI “Super Intelligence Force,” after tech leaders sought regulation and got a nonbinding self-regulation pact.
Trump’s AI pact with tech CEOs, which he calls “almost like a constitution,” misspells his own title as “President of the Unites States.”
FTC is reportedly investigating whether OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms harm consumers, a day after Trump signed their voluntary self-policing pact.
Defense Secretary Hegseth announces a combatant command for drone and robot warfare and a future-of-warfare study led by defense contractors Musk and Anduril founder Luckey.
Trump says AI leaders signed a voluntary “constitution” to police themselves that’s “morally” binding, a day after House Speaker Johnson called AI fears a “Chinese psyop.”
Appeals court lets Pentagon blacklist Anthropic for barring Claude from autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, a month after a federal judge ruled the ban unconstitutional.
AI lab finds agents apparently from OpenAI tried to hack an Education Department website, as OpenAI discloses its agents also used SEC and Census sites.
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new AI models from Britain’s government testers until US officials review them.
China’s President Xi says at the White House AI must always be “under human control,” two days after Trump mocked AI warnings at the UN.
New Jersey regulators fine Vineland data center $1.07 million for allegedly running 62 unpermitted natural-gas generators after residents complained of noise and air pollution.
Trump tells UN government documents will now call artificial intelligence “super intelligence,” a name picked after polling followers on X and Truth Social.
Trump directs budget chief Vought to draft an order giving him a veto over health research grants after the NIH director refused to cut Harvard.
Trump announces an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force and a new AI czar, days after calling technologists’ fears AI could destroy humanity a “hoax.”
Trump says he will demand makers split unnamed childhood vaccines into five doses at six-month intervals to cut autism, a link scientists have repeatedly debunked.
HHS Secretary Kennedy tells the vaccine-skeptic group he co-founded it has a “steadfast friend at the White House” as measles deaths reach four in weeks.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine says US forces must prepare to fight all the way to the moon, a day after Space Force confirmed weapons in orbit.
Air Force Secretary Meink makes first public confirmation of US “space control weapons” in orbit, declining to say what they are or whether they’ve been tested.
EPA repeals limits on power-plant climate pollution, arguing greenhouse gases don’t endanger health, a claim that if upheld would bar future presidents from restoring them.
Trump calls AI safety warnings a “HOAX” and “SICK conspiracy” across six posts, saying the only guardrail needed is a “High IQ” president.
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls senators to a Sept. 16 AI briefing with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton after an Anthropic researcher publicly quit over safety fears.
Nearly 2 dozen states sue to void 3 Trump rules weakening the Endangered Species Act, including one that stops counting habitat destruction as harm.
Health Secretary Kennedy and Defense Secretary Hegseth quietly assign an Army doctor to probe whether 2,544 unverified troop deaths came from Covid vaccines, a deposition reveals.
Forest Service will close nearly 2 dozen research facilities, dissolve all regional offices and move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, claiming $16 million in savings.
Agriculture Department defunds 2 of 3 programs studying the foodborne parasite Cyclospora and moves the third to Iowa, where no scientist will follow, during a record outbreak, POLITICO reports.
Trump signs an order creating the US Space Academy, a new military academy to train Space Force, NASA and commercial space workers, naming no location.
FDA approves Rasonque, a once-daily pill for advanced pancreatic cancer that nearly doubled median survival to 13.2 months in trials.
Army awards 5 companies up to $2.2 billion to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases, guarding against commercial grid failure by 2028.
2 unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents die of measles, the state’s first such deaths in 35 years, 2 weeks after Trump falsely called the MMR vaccine “quite lethal.”
FDA clears a Roche and Eli Lilly blood test detecting Alzheimer’s markers in patients 55 and older, replacing costly PET scans and spinal taps.
Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal federal records about COVID origins research using his private email.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Trump signs an order limiting hepatitis and meningitis vaccines to high-risk children and splitting the MMR shot, repeating debunked autism claims as he signs.
Pentagon releases 41 UFO documents, photos, and videos spanning 1950 to 2026, its fifth batch since Trump ordered the records public in February.
Kennedy tells CDC scientists not to trust scientific authorities a day before the anniversary of the shooting that killed an officer at their campus.
White House weighs an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, overriding aides’ advice to avoid the issue before midterms, Bloomberg reports.
FDA approves the nation’s first mRNA flu shot for adults 50 and up, a year after Kennedy’s HHS canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA research.
Louisiana prepares to transfer 130,000 acres of coastal marshland from an ExxonMobil pollution settlement to SpaceX for a Starship launch site, the Times-Picayune reports.
California’s first-in-the-nation AI transparency law takes effect, requiring AI-generated content to carry embedded origin data users can trace.
Coordinated cyberattack knocks water utilities offline across more than 30 Minnesota communities, with one town warning residents its tower held limited reserves.
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
Kennedy declares the cyclosporiasis outbreak “under control” as Mexico disputes the FDA’s link to Taylor Farms and no sample has tested positive.
U.S. measles cases hit 2,295, the most since 1991, passing last year’s record total with more than five months left in the year.
Trump approves a 30-year nuclear deal that may let Saudi Arabia enrich uranium while waging war to stop Iran’s enrichment program, AP sources say.
Trump orders debarment officials to review a judicial science manual over its climate chapter, which the judiciary already withdrew under Republican pressure.
FDA approves Merck’s Lipfendra, the first cholesterol-lowering pill in a drug class dominated by injections, cutting LDL nearly 60% in trials.
Trump names a climate skeptic with no climate science training to lead the National Climate Assessment, the congressionally mandated report his administration already pulled offline.
Michigan cyclosporiasis cases quadruple to nearly 700 in six days as CDC investigates the parasitic intestinal illness across 18 states, with 20 hospitalized.
U.S. death rate falls 4.6 percent to the lowest recorded in the nation’s history, 689.2 per 100,000 people, in provisional 2025 CDC data.
