Billionaires have funneled vast sums into the campaigns of Republicans at risk of losing both chambers of Congress. According to The Washington Post’s megadonor tracker, the top 50 billionaire donors have spent $2.8 billion on the midterms, favoring Republicans 2-to-1. Meanwhile, the top five Republican super PACs have outraised theirContinue Reading
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection to a fourth term by gaining ground in Brazil’s largest cities while keeping his strong support in the northeast. His geographic base is shifting and this change is clearest in Brazil’s 200 largest cities. There, Lula’s share of valid votes rose fromContinue Reading
In the home stretch to the midterms, the Department of Justice has taken to throwing any legal concoction at the wall to see if it will stick. As I wrote last week , the department has devolved from tenuous to utterly groundless legal arguments. The latest, a genuinely bizarre andContinue Reading
Building the Future is an offshoot of the pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, arguably the leading super PAC promoting industry interests in the midterm elections., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analyzing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and files, the tool will be able to identify suspicious behavior in the messages themselves, Microsoft said. The featureContinue Reading
Apple watchers predicted something like this: The company is ending October with a triple-whammy of new products, starting with its newly introduced iPad mini with OLED display. The rest of the week is expected to feature new Macs, specifically an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac and Apple’s first touchscreen MacBookContinue Reading
Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and venture capital. And this year, the mix included a strong, cross-campusContinue Reading
Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again, Read MoreContinue Reading
Lawyers for the Justice Department managed to get a three-judge panel to convene a rare emergency hearing on Sunday., Read MoreContinue Reading
“Today, we’re introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations.”, “Today, we’re introducing a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to eligible employees within participating organizations.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic filed papers Monday for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a WallContinue Reading
Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said:”This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. TheContinue Reading
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