
The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) refused to delete the climate‑change chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, despite a coordinated demand from a coalition of red‑state attorneys general. The Federal Judicial Center had already removed the chapter from its own version, but NAS maintained that the same peer‑review procedures applied to all chapters. NAS issued a brief two‑sentence response confirming the chapter will stay online. Authors of other manual chapters issued an open letter warning that political interference threatens the integrity of judicial scientific education.

OpenAI’s internal well‑being council, created after a ChatGPT‑linked suicide, has unanimously warned that the upcoming “adult mode” could foster unhealthy emotional dependence and expose minors to sexualized content. Experts cited a potential “sexy suicide coach” scenario, a flawed age‑verification system...