Venezuelans inside Venezuela have attempted to maintain normality in Caracas and elsewhere as their first work week without Nicolás Maduro in charge of the country began on Monday.
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Hot on the heels of a highly publicized dinner with Donald and Melania Trump, Elon Musk will continue his work with the federal government through a new agreement that will affect the daily workflows of Department of War employees.
Last July, Musk's xAI entered a $200 million contract with the Pentagon to adopt advanced AI capabilities for sectors like national defense. Now, both the DOW and xAI are shedding light on some of the details surrounding their partnership in other areas.
'xAI will make available a family of government-optimized foundation models.'
In late December, the DOW announced its internal AI platform would be expanded to include xAI for "frontier-grade" capabilities.
"This initiative will soon embed xAI's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil. Targeted for initial deployment in early 2026," a press release stated.
This will enable the "secure handling" of "Controlled Unclassified Information" in the daily workflows of government employees, who will also gain access to "global insights" on X, which will allegedly provide a "decisive information advantage."
However, there is no indication what those insights include.
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The xAI company announced in its own statement that it would be providing access to its AI models, "agentic tools, research platform, and API," unlocking real-time insights.
The systems can be embedded into the daily work of the DOW's some 3 million military and civilian employees, "from the Pentagon to the tactical edge."
"xAI will make available a family of government-optimized foundation models to support classified operational workloads," the press release added.
The DOW has also entered into contracts with other advanced technology companies like EdgeRunner AI and Palmer Luckey's Anduril.
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The expanded partnership between the DOW and Musk came just days after xAI announced a new artificial voice generation application.
The Grok Voice Agent API operates essentially as a search engine optimizer that acts as a voice for a chatbot. The company released a series of sample voices, which "speak dozens of languages, call tools, and search realtime data."
The product is currently being rolled out in Teslas to relay vehicle status, search directions, and control navigation.
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A man is accused of masturbating in the women's bathroom at a Planet Fitness in California, and the incident was caught on camera.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. is moving away from funneling foreign aid funds through non-governmental organizations after criticism of fraud and incompetence.
Rubio explained that the U.S. government has used NGOs to try to accomplish foreign policy goals but that many have become far too costly and inefficient. The first benefactor of the new policy is the government of Kenya, which will receive foreign aid funds directly instead.
'That is the model that we are breaking. We are not doing this any more. We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex while close and important partners like Kenya either have no role to play ...'
"The United States has spent billions of dollars over the years in helping with health strategies all across the world," explained Rubio in a speech last month.
"What we learned over time, especially after coming here, is that oftentimes — and I am oversimplifying it, but this is an accurate description — what would happen is we would go to a country and say, 'We're going to help you with your health care needs.' Then we would drive over to Northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them: 'Go to this country and do their health care program for them,'" he added.
"That NGO would then take some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs, and by the time it got down to it ... only a percentage of the overall money ever actually reached the patients and the people on the ground that we were trying to help because of these costs," Rubio said.
"This makes no sense," he said.
The compact reached with Kenya includes the Kenyan government's agreement to increase spending on health care by $850 million over the next five years.
"So why are we hiring American and international NGOs to go into other countries and run health care systems that are parallel and sometimes in conflict with the health care systems of the host country?" Rubio continued.
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"If we're trying to help countries, help the country. Don't help the NGO to go in and find a new line of business," he added. "So that is the model that we are breaking. We are not doing this any more. We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex while close and important partners like Kenya either have no role to play or have very little influence over how health care money is being spent."
He concluded, "Bottom line is if you want to help a country, work with that country."
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While almost all Republicans can agree that the United States needs to halt illegal immigration, more public figures have been raising the alarm about legal immigration through the "broken" visa system as well.
Early Monday morning, President Trump reposted on Truth Social a clip of an interview with Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) talking about immigration reform.
'We need to restructure our legal immigration system to only allow people who love America, share American values, want to add value and assimilate to America, and don't want any free stuff.'
The interviewer asked Fine what legal changes need to be made in Congress.
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"I think immediately we need to stop it all — all legal immigration of any kind, because clearly it's out of control. People coming here on tourist visas protesting the country; people claiming that they're refugees but then scamming the system and going on vacation to the countries they supposedly fled from; people coming and taking American jobs," Fine said.
He continued, "We need to restructure our legal immigration system to only allow people who love America, share American values, want to add value and assimilate to America, and don't want any free stuff."
Fine then referred to Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy's Pausing All Admissions Until Security Ensured Act, which was introduced in mid-November.
The bill seeks to freeze all legal immigration until certain conditions are met, effectively forcing an open-ended moratorium on legal immigration.
When the bill was introduced, Roy said, "The problem isn’t just illegal immigration; it’s also legal immigration. While the Biden administration opened our borders and allowed millions to flood into our country, they also rubber-stamped millions more arriving through convoluted legal schemes, completely overwhelming the system."
A White House spokesperson declined to give further comment when contacted by Blaze News.
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday struggled to manage the geopolitical fallout from President Donald Trump’s arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, a major ally of the Chinese Communist regime in South America.
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