September 3, 2026 · Catch-Up — The Justice Department tells a court it is in the national interest for OpenAI to win

A catch-up on Thursday the third of September. The Justice Department told a federal court that it is in the national interest for OpenAI to win its copyright case — that artificial intelligence development is critical to national security, and that training on copyrighted work is transformation the law allows. On the same day, OpenAI told House Democrats its engineers are building automated shutdown capabilities. Then Iran: the Foreign Ministry accused the United States of a war crime after a missile strike hit a wedding, with the Iranian Red Crescent reporting four dead and more than sixty wounded, and Central Command saying only that it was looking into reports. And the sentence of the day, from Reuters — that aides are working to keep the war from escalating before the midterms, while officials consider expanding operations after the election. Plus New York City barring artificial intelligence for six hundred thousand younger students, and the Pentagon pulling decades of classified orders off its own classified network. Sourced; the analysis is Anna Dudley's. More analysis at Power Moves Before Policy Does.