Michael Barbaro

Customs and Border Protection decided to try out a new anti-drone laser technology in order to shoot at what they believed was a drone from Mexican drug cartels.

But the border protection officials failed to give officials from the Federal Aviation Administration enough time to assess the risks of the new technology on commercial planes.

That prompted the FAA to shut down the airspace before quickly reversing their own decision.

During a combative hearing on Wednesday, Democratic members of Congress sharply criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi for her department's handling of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and her repeated efforts to prosecute enemies of the president.

He tells you to go after James Comey, Letitia James, Lisa... Bondi forcefully defended her actions, frequently interrupted lawmakers, and at times insulted them, as she did to Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland when he instructed Bondi to stop filibustering in response to questions from Democrats.

Today's episode was produced by Eric Krupke, Michael Simon-Johnson, and Anna Foley.

It was edited by Maria Byrne and Devin Taylor, contains music by Alishaba Etube, Marion Lozano, and Dan Powell, and was engineered by Chris Wood.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Michael Lauro.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is The Daily on Sunday.

We all knew TV was dead, but thought, why not squeeze in one last development meeting?

This is a video, a kind of comedy sketch, produced by a company in the United Kingdom called Particle Six.

Now, Particle Six bills itself as the world's leading AI production studio.

So everything in this video, the voices you're hearing, the words that they're saying, all of it was generated by artificial intelligence.

And the star of this video is Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated scientist.

It seemed like a clever one-off.

But a few months later, Particle 6 announced that Ms.

Norwood was close to signing a deal to be represented by a major Hollywood talent agency.