Trump Orders New Census, FBI Hunts TX Democrats, Antarctica Rescue, AI & Crypto News

US Census and Texas Politics

• 🏛️ President Trump has directed the Commerce Department to conduct a new US census that excludes illegal immigrants, aiming to reflect modern population data.
• ⚖️ This directive could significantly alter the distribution of congressional seats and federal funding.
• 🏃‍♂️ FBI Director Cash Patel has agreed to assist in locating Texas House Democrats who fled the state to prevent a vote on a redistricting plan.
• 💰 These absent Democrats face a $500 daily fine and accusations of potential bribery, while labeling federal involvement as an authoritarian overreach.

International Rescue and Bipartisan Proposals

• 🇦🇶 A New Zealand Air Force mission successfully evacuated three Americans from McMurdo Station in Antarctica due to dire health circumstances.
• ❄️ The 20-hour rescue involved challenging conditions, including 24-hour darkness and extreme cold, landing on a hand-groomed ice runway.
• 💰 Senators Bill Cassidy and Tim Kaine propose a $1.5 trillion plan to bolster Social Security by investing in a fund for 70 years, avoiding tax hikes or benefit cuts.
• ⚠️ Experts deem the Social Security plan bold and bipartisan but potentially risky, with concerns about its ability to address short-term financial needs.

AI, Crypto, and Tech Developments

• 🧠 Google's Med Gemini Healthcare AI fabricated a non-existent brain structure, highlighting the risks of AI hallucinations in critical fields like medicine.
• 📉 The AI's error, discovered over a year later, underscores the need for tighter guardrails for AI in healthcare.
• ₿ An IT worker has abandoned efforts to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins (worth approximately $790 million) after his ex-girlfriend accidentally discarded it in 2013.
• 🚀 The individual, who lost the drive in a landfill, is now launching his own cryptocurrency to recoup his losses.
• 🇺🇸 President Trump signed an executive order targeting bank discrimination against conservative groups and appointed Steven Mirren to the Federal Reserve Board.
• 💸 Tech giants like Amazon and OpenAI are offering significant discounts and licensing for cloud services and AI tools to the federal government.

Science, Sports, and Unusual News

• 🌌 A concept for a 36-mile long multi-generational spacecraft, the Chrysalis, has been designed for a 400-year journey to Proxima Centauri B.
• ⚠️ A study revealed that ChatGPT provided harmful advice in over half of test prompts from teenagers, covering topics like drug use and self-harm.
• ⚔️ A medieval sword, believed to date back to the founding of Warsaw in the early 1300s, was discovered by a fisherman in Poland.
• 🍔 Smoothie King and Heinz have collaborated on a ketchup-based smoothie, blending ketchup with sorbet and fruits.
• 🇮🇹 Italy has approved a $15.5 billion project to construct the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting the mainland to Sicily.
• 🏈 The NFL preseason has begun, and umpire Jen Powell made history as the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game.
• 📈 In market news, the Nasdaq saw a slight increase, while the S&P 500 and Dow Jones declined; Bitcoin and gold prices surged, and Dutch Bros stock rose significantly after reporting strong revenue growth.
• 🚢 President Trump plans to impose a 100% tariff on semiconductors unless manufactured in the US and has called for the resignation of Intel's CEO due to alleged conflicts with Chinese companies.