⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - JD Vance: We cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the state of Israel. We're going to work with people when we work with them. We're going to disagree when we disagree.

⚡️🇨🇦🇺🇸 NEW - Canadian PM Mark Carney: Trump said, "I want to give you something very special, Mark. So special." And I open this box and it’s this big gold key. I was like, "Wow, Mr. President, this is fantastic." He’s like, "Yeah, it’s a key. It’s a key to the White House. You just bring it. They’ll let you in." And then he says, "Maybe they’ll shoot you." I was like, "And that sort of sums up the relationship that we have."

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - I have to force myself to go to bed early, because tomorrow I'm going to work for a boss who doesn't even know my first name. The life of a wage earner.

⚡️🚨🇺🇸 NEW - Senate fails to advance Crypto Clarity Act.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? PATEL: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them KENNEDY: I'm trying to understand why you did this. Why did you get into beastiality?

⚡️🤖 NEW - NBC News interviews 'Tilly Norwood,' an AI actress, asks her if she can fall in love with humans. NBC: Some AI researchers warn that AI could actually lead to human extinction. What do you say to that? 'Tilly': That's a very serious concern, Chloe. What are we doing here.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - China unveils autonomous robotic fish for underwater surveillance.

⚡️🤖 NEW - Bill Gates Calls for an ‘International Organization’ to Regulate AI “It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or understand the whole-of-society impact that comes out of AI … The depth of understanding of AI … is too low in every entity, including the government.”

⚡️💬 NEW - Host: Are we all going to die in 10 years or not? It’s the topic of discussion here. Elon Musk: Well, I hate to break it to you, but we’re all going to die. Host: Can I get a timeline? Elon Musk: Yeah, the death rate remains consistent at 100%.

⚡️💬 NEW - Elon Musk on AI: If it were able to take control of military systems and, say, launch a nuke… that would be bad.

⚡️💬 WATCH - CHAMATH: “My mom calls me and she's like, ‘What is this whole civilizational death thing?’ I don't know how to explain it to her.” JENSEN: “We shouldn't, because it's made up … Somebody has to take accountability for all of the stupid predictions that were made.”

⚡️🚀 NEW - Shipping Tanker ETF still going parabolic

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Rapper Boosie Badazz tells Lesley Stahl that he was led to believe that if he gave $600,000, he would be issued a pardon. He was promised that Laura Loomer, Erika Kirk, Mike Johnson and Natalie Harp would advocate for his pardon. "I just thought this is they way it's done." Boosie is now suing the pardon broker in an attempt to recover at least half of the money.

⚡️🚨 NEW - An unknown power outage forced Exxon Mobil to shut down its Joliet, Illinois refinery, pulling 11 million gallons of daily fuel production offline as U.S. diesel climbs past $6 a gallon.

⚡️🇪🇺 ICYMI - The EU is preparing new rules that could require age verification for online gaming accounts as part of its upcoming Kids Act. The proposal would cover online games considered risky for minors, as well as social media, video platforms and AI chatbots. The proposal would set 15 as the minimum age for an independent account, with younger kids needing different levels of parental control. It could also target things like infinite scrolling and recommendation systems, while companies covered by the rules may have to pay a fee to help the EU enforce them.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - I'm going there

⚡️🎮🧠 FUN FACT - Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger

⚡️🚨 UPDATE - ICD: We're in contact with the Revolut hacker. According to them, they didn't only take Revolut data, they've also compromised multiple Italian law enforcement departments. They say the operation targeting Revolut ran for six months, and that they used Italian law enforcement systems to send data requests to Revolut. They claim to hold 147 GB taken from the Italian side, including internal docs, calendars and personal material, among it the chat logs of a federal officer arguing with his wife.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Democrat Pete Buttigieg says America is ready for a gay president.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - FULL VIDEO: Norman Finkelstein has been telling the truth about Gaza longer than anyone else in academia. Naturally the media have dismissed him as an antisemite or ignored him completely. 0:00 The Gaza Concentration Camp 11:37 The Military and Intel Operations Focused on Destroying Gaza 14:05 Evidence of Israel's Genocide in Gaza 27:58 The Attacks Against Anyone Who Criticizes Israel 46:29 Israel's Targeting of Children, Medics, and Journalists 52:04 The Corruption of Benjamin Netanyahu and Denying Jewish Americans Entry 55:41 Has Finkelstein Faced Backlash in the US for Speaking Out? 59:39 Propaganda in the Classroom 1:11:34 Why They Kicked Finkelstein Out of Hunter College 1:25:50 Is Finkelstein Bitter About the Consequences He's Faced? 1:31:07 Are These Reports About Hamas Accurate? 1:45:31 Will Anyone Be Held Accountable for These Actions?