The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

A live-blog of the summary judgment hearing over whether the U.S. Department of Defense designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” to punish it for First Amendment protected speech.

Scott Bessent, Google, and Demis Hassabis all want a FINRA for AI. This is what it should look like.

A district court judge has affirmed removal protections for inferior officers in the first case to consider the question post-Slaughter.

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

A draft law before China’s legislature would let prosecutors sue foreign firms over an undefined “national interest,” in courts the prosecution itself supervises.

On jets, journalism, and a judge.

How shifting strategic interests are reshaping cyber sovereignty in international law.

The Justice Department’s bid to nix a Clean Air Act suit against xAI’s turbines shows how security claims reshape energy permitting.

A campaign of firings and clearance revocations is teaching the intelligence community that silence is the only job security.

Last week, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court had its first case in 30 years. We dive into DOJ’s awakening of a controversial court.

Would a nuclear-armed Japan be a deterrence shortcut or a source of instability?