@hugolowell

Trump White House newsletter anchor @WIRED. Email: hugo_lowell@condenast.com

 Washington, DC
Joined May 2014
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NEW @WIRED: Trump White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming weeks and months — including adding open models to the framework as soon as they reach the same “frontier” capabilities of Anthropic and OpenAI’s top models wired.com/story/the-white-ho…

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.

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NEW @WIRED: Federal prosecutors have been weighing a possible perjury and obstruction case against Cassidy Hutchinson — though charges likely will not come until at least after the midterms, per people familiar Prosecutors have been comparing Hutchinson’s J6C transcripts against her Jack Smith transcript, and whether her testimony led to probes against others wired.com/story/the-doj-is-w…

The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

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NEW @WIRED: Federal prosecutors have been weighing a possible perjury and obstruction case against Cassidy Hutchinson — though charges likely will not come until at least after the midterms, per people familiar Prosecutors have been comparing Hutchinson’s J6C transcripts against her Jack Smith transcript, and whether her testimony led to probes against others wired.com/story/the-doj-is-w…

The DOJ Is Weighing Perjury Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The Justice Department is considering a perjury and obstruction of justice case against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump to the January 6 committee.

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US won't attack Iran at any point before the midterm elections, Trump says
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NEW @WIRED: Elon Musk's America PAC is focusing its war chest on key Senate races this cycle -- overall spending 3 times as much on digital ads and mailers hitting Dems as defending GOP candidates amid cratering support for Trump's record wired.com/story/elon-musks-a…

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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NEW @WIRED: Elon Musk's America PAC is focusing its war chest on key Senate races this cycle -- overall spending 3 times as much on digital ads and mailers hitting Dems as defending GOP candidates amid cratering support for Trump's record wired.com/story/elon-musks-a…

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

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In the Texas Senate race, America PAC to date has spent $9.4M on ads opposing James Talarico vs $1.8M defending Ken Paxton. Lopsided spending here is perhaps the least surprising of all the close Senate contests given Paxton's baggage --
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Oct 7
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. buff.ly/q0P4LIo

Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily

To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.

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Will Steakin
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Oct 6
Pretty unique ad
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SCOOP @WIRED: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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SCOOP @WIRED: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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Video intersperses clips of Rogers saying “you can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated” when he was House Intel chair in 2013. El-Sayed campaign also tells me there will be a billboard campaign in Michigan wired.com/story/mike-rogers-…

‘Mike Rogers Is Watching You’: New Ad Blitz From Abdul El-Sayed Attacks Surveillance Support

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.

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Kyle Griffin
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Oct 2
Trump claimed to TIME that Secret Service officials have encouraged him to replace the current Oval Office. "'Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we'll build a new one, sir,'" said Trump, quoting a Secret Service official. "I said, 'My ass, you can't build a new one. This is a special place.'"
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Jake Sherman
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Sep 30
Very interesting. If Congress isn't on the brink of AI regulation, then i guess there's no need to dump all this money into PACs and races. but that seems to be a short-term play. eventually trump will be gone and Congress will do something.
Teddy Schleifer
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Sep 30
NEWS. More AI fallout ahead of the midterms. Greg Brockman, the OpenAI co-founder, is no longer making the second $25 million donation promised to the super PAC Leading the Future. Scoop with @MikeIsaac. nytimes.com/2026/09/30/techn…

OpenAI Executive Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.

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NEW @WIRED: Trump aides privately acknowledge that national polling is remarkably bad, and have started to contemplate possibly losing both chambers, per people familiar — even as they argue individual House races are not as negative wired.com/story/the-white-ho…

The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms

President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.

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David Gura@davidgura
Sep 30
“United States” is spelled incorrectly on the White House’s agreement with AI executives:
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Trump spoke to reporters for a few minutes after today’s lunch. Asked if there will be any binding AI rules after today’s lunch, he tells me he plans to sign an EO this evening to re-name AI “super intelligence” and says “there was a lot of commonality in this room.” He also tells reporters that “there’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation” and reiterates that the government has regulation via the DOJ.
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NEW: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his wife had dinner at the White House last night after TRUMP reached out with the offer, per people familiar Amodei had already confirmed his attendance at the White House AI execs meeting happening tomorrow before he dined with the president
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TRUMP was happy with the dinner where they discussed AI matters generally But people familiar with dynamics don’t expect this to carry over to the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth and Emil Michael have been sharply critical of Amodei — i.e. “Dario’s still got a Hegseth problem”
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TRUMP will meet Anthropic’s Dario Amodei for one on one dinner tonight, per person familiar and confirming Axios
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Josh Wingrove
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Sep 23
With Xi about to land to a red-carpet welcome at Joint Base Andrews... (Bloomberg) -- The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia.
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