A Republican bill for health care subsidies includes a clause restricting the funds from use for abortion—with exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother—or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service," according to a post by journalist Eric M. Garcia on X between 11:45 p.m. UTC on December 8 and 12:15 a.m. UTC on December 9, 2025. Garcia described the provision as "tucked inside" the bill in the post shared during the 29-minute reporting window. In a separate development in the same period, xAI promoted its "Halftime" feature, which dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into video scenes to make breaks feel like part of the story, according to an xAI post on X tagging developers Krish Garg, Yuvie Codes and Pravin Lohani.
