Alexandra Ulmer
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Reuters reporter covering U.S. politics, focus on Trump, Musk and $. Previously in Venezuela, India, Chile & Argentina. [email protected]
Joined January 2010
We accompanied Venezuelan migrants as they traveled by bus from Caracas to Chile. Our story, with pics by @carlosrawlins, of nine days on the road:
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More reporting trickling out about alleged mistreatment of Venezuelans at the El Salvador prison, including frequent beatings, shackling, insults and denial of medical care. At one point, the detainees used sharp iron pipes to cut themselves and write messages in their blood on.
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Guards at the El Salvador mega prison told detainees they would only leave dead, according to two Venezuelans who were recently freed from CECOT. One of them said some of his fellow inmates considered suicide.
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A Venezuelan singer who spent months in a notorious prison in El Salvador returned to his family in Caracas overnight, one of the first of more than 250 former prisoners to arrive home after they...
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Trump loyalist Katie Miller crosses battle lines to continue work for Elon Musk . With @rachael_levy .
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In recent days, Republican circles in Washington have buzzed with speculation that former Trump administration official Katie Miller, an aide to Elon Musk and wife of one of the president's closest...
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Israeli missile hits Gaza children collecting water, IDF blames malfunction .
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The Israeli military said it intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area, but that a malfunction had caused the missile to fall "dozens of metres from the target."
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Lots of fascinating nuggets in this richly-reported profile of Stephen Miller -- including that he is one of a small group of White House staffers who approve *all* executive orders. Via @tedhesson @jeffmason1 & Kristina Cooke.
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Senior aide Stephen Miller wields unprecedented power in the White House. He is the architect of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Browser wars kicking off. Great scoop here:.
Scoop:. OpenAI is planning to launch a Google Chrome competitor within weeks. The browser includes a chat interface that would help keep users from having to click through to external links, sources tell @Reuters. from @readkrystalhu @annatonger and me:.
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RT @AlexandraUlmer: Ever since the Musk-Trump alliance began, people have been predicting its end. And tensions have indeed been building f….
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Ever since the Musk-Trump alliance began, people have been predicting its end. And tensions have indeed been building for months. But it's really just today that it's all come crashing down, dizzyingly fast. Musk is now dangling the threat of a new party, and Trump is dangling.
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Looks like we now have a real unraveling on our hands:.
BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS DOESN'T KNOW IF HE WILL HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH ELON MUSK ANYMORE.
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“Reuters is lying,” Musk posted on X, minutes after a Reuters report that Tesla had killed a planned all-new $25,000 EV. Tesla executives knew that Musk had, in fact, canceled the low-cost vehicle. The company had told employees the project was over weeks earlier, Reuters.
Exclusive: @Tesla executives questioned Musk after he denied killing $25,000 EV project, sources say.
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RT @AlexandraUlmer: NEW: Interviewed ex DOGE staffer who said: . * DOGE is likely to fizzle now that Musk is out. "It's like kids joining a….
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Read our interview with Sahil Lavingia, the first since he was fired from DOGE. He takes you behind the scenes of Musk’s project — and doesn’t mince his words: .
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Without billionaire Elon Musk in the Trump administration, his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency project is likely to sputter out, a former DOGE staffer said in an interview after...
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NEW: Interviewed ex DOGE staffer who said: . * DOGE is likely to fizzle now that Musk is out. "It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in 4 months.". * Objectives at DOGE were unclear and communication poor. "I got dropped into the VA with an HP laptop.
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Very cool to see this out - the hunt for truth in AI, which may be less of a black box than commonly thought.
Pleased to present my research on the internal representations of factual knowledge within Large Language Models. This work investigates the diversity of truth and its encoding in LLMs. 📄
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RT @rebeccaballhaus: Elon Musk worked privately to derail the OpenAI deal announced in Abu Dhabi last week if it didn't include his own AI….
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Musk warned those involved that President Trump wouldn’t bless the OpenAI data-center project in Abu Dhabi unless his xAI company was included in the deal, according to people familiar with the...
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ICYMI - our scoop on how Musk's Grok AI chatbot is seeping into the US government.
Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns . With @marisaataylor & @jasonszep.
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Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns . With @marisaataylor & @jasonszep.
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Using sensitive or confidential data could violate security and privacy laws, specialists say.
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RT @ldelevingne: NEW: Two Trump family crypto business partners have made ~$65M on @worldlibertyfi already. Their old @DoughFina clients ar….
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Two co-founders of Dough Finance, a defi startup that was targeted by hackers last summer, are now playing a key role in the fastest-growing part of the Trump family's crypto business, which has...
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RT @lawrencehurley: NEWS: Supreme Court gives green light to Trump administration revoking protected status for more than 300,000 Venezuela….
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As part of its hard-line immigration policy, the Trump administration seeks to reverse a Biden-era policy that extended protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans.
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