Legal news, week of September 14, 2026

Reported by STAT News and MedPage Today.

Reports ran from 23:45 UTC on Sep 14 to 05:53 UTC on Sep 15.

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Reported by CNBC and Seeking Alpha.

• mail-in ballots rule

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Reported by The Washington Times, The Standard, The Record and Wsls.

• Cryptocurrency

Reports ran between 15:47 and 18:33 UTC on Sep 15.

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Reported by techcrunch.com and CNBC.

• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google

Machine summary Trump announced he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar soon. A 25% GDP claim was made.

1. Trump said the administration would not "hinder or stifle" AI industry growth and would use "existing laws" to address harmful conduct.
2. He projected AI could account for "possibly as much as 25%" of U.S. GDP.
3. Trump called AI concerns another in a list of "hoaxes" promoted by Democrats and rejected calls to slow AI development.
4. He compared AI Force to the Space Force established in his first term, calling it a "tremendous SUCCESS."

Reported by fox17.com, kval.com and kfdm.com.

• AI Force
• AI czar

Machine summary The Trump administration voluntarily dismissed its 2nd Circuit appeal of a ruling barring DOT from freezing $16 billion in Gateway tunnel funding.

1. The $16 billion Gateway project is a rail tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New York and New Jersey, described by state officials as the nation's most urgent infrastructure project.
2. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said the states won in court 'five times' and called the project a source of 'nearly 100,000 jobs.'
3. The lower-court ruling also blocked funding freezes for other New York and New Jersey regional infrastructure projects.

Reported by wyomingnewsnow.tv and chronicle-tribune.com.

• New York
• New Jersey

Machine summary Key facts from the reports:

1. He wrote a 2022 iOS-note rant ending with 'nothing fucking works' and shelved it for four years.
2. The essay applies the hawk-dove model from evolutionary biology to software: closed source as hawks, open source as doves.
3. Voss argues the stable equilibrium in software is that 'free wins' for open source.
4. The essay directs readers to the 'registries' section for the proposed enforcement mechanism.

Reported by seldo.com.

• iOS
• FOSS