🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack > "The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents." > "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI." > "What we shouldn’t do on safety is to give these labs a liability exemption, which is what they are asking for." > "The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate." It’s OVER

A Virginia man accidentally left his phone recording while undergoing anesthesia for a colonoscopy. The audio captured medical staff insulting him, telling an assistant to lie to him, and discussing adding a false hemorrhoid diagnosis to his medical records. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000 in damages. The patient, referred to in court documents as “D.B.,” underwent a colonoscopy in Reston, Virginia, in April 2013. Before receiving anesthesia, he activated his phone’s audio recorder to capture the post-procedure instructions. The device remained in his clothing beneath the operating table, unintentionally recording everything that happened during the procedure. While listening to the recording on his way home, he discovered that anesthesiologist Dr. Tiffany Ingham had repeatedly mocked him while he was unconscious. She ridiculed his fear of needles, made insulting remarks about a rash he had mentioned, and said she had wanted to punch him following their conversation before the procedure. The audio also revealed medical staff discussing ways to avoid interacting with him afterward. An assistant was told to falsely claim that the doctor had already spoken to him and that he simply couldn’t remember. Ingham was also heard discussing adding hemorrhoids to his medical records, despite no evidence of the condition being found. The patient subsequently filed a lawsuit alleging defamation and medical malpractice. Following a three-day trial, a Fairfax County jury awarded him $500,000: $100,000 for defamation, $200,000 for medical malpractice, and $200,000 in punitive damages. One juror later remarked that the defense had little room to dispute the allegations because the entire conversation had been captured on the recording.

Beginning today, your congressman can sign a discharge petition to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II. EFTA II gives state AGs access to Epstein files required to prosecute perpetrators under state law, and makes it easier for survivors to sue to get their files.

On the House floor tonight, I read the names of several Epstein coconspirators who should be investigated and prosecuted. I also began collecting 218 signatures for the discharge petition to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

The USDA has issues a recall of frozen buffalo chicken products at the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" after the products were sold without federal inspection.

Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer, per NOTUS

Remember the “Blurred Lines” copyright case? Entertainment attorney Richard S. Busch of King & Ballow in Nashville, who repped the family of Marvin Gaye, certainly does. He also remembers that everyone tried to warn him off the case: tinyurl.com/3tf3naxu

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's wife and adviser, Cami Clark, pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in her "free luxury porn company" in 2012, per DOJ-released emails. Epstein, then already a registered sex offender, declined: "Can't do sex TV."