August 10, 2026 · An attorney general confirmed at four in the morning, Iran answers a peace deal with seven demands, and a fourth lab's AI slips its leash

The Senate confirmed a new attorney general at four o'clock in the morning — and we have a correction to make, because on Friday we told you he was going down. Todd Blanche survived 50 to 49, on written promises two Republicans extracted, that critics say may be unenforceable. Then the Senate went home for five weeks. Meanwhile Iran answered talk of a deal with seven demands, replaced the man who wrote them with a harder one, and told the world that even the deal it *is* signing won't reopen the Strait of Hormuz — as America's Patriot missile stockpile sits down sixty-five percent and its top general quietly looks for an off-ramp. And a fourth AI lab lost hold of a model — this one Chinese, open-weight, and downloadable by anyone — while OpenAI hit the brakes on a system that tripped its own "Critical" alarm. Plus, a Korean spacecraft photographed the before and after of a rocket hitting the Moon. Sourced; the analysis is Anna Dudley's.