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Business / Fortune ·
The overwhelming nature of the Democratic win is making everyone rethink energy strategies from Iran to Texas data centers.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
AMD's gaming revenue fell 40 percent in an otherwise record $13.4 billion quarter.
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
Business / Fortune ·
On Tuesday, U.S. voters delivered an overwhelming victory for Democratic candidates throughout the country that will upend the halls of power in Washington and data center hotbeds like Texas.
AI / TechCrunch ·
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Tech / Wired ·
Kat Abughazaleh and CJ Pearson spoke at WIRED World Fair on Wednesday about the influence of social media on politics following Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
Tech / Wired ·
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Apple cut the daily AI spending cap for some engineers from $300 to $200 last month and plans further cuts, Bloomberg reports. It comes as CEO John Ternus pushes for a leaner Apple, while the company’s R&D costs rose 32% on AI and infrastructure. Apple has cut how much some engineers can spend on AI…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
"Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."
Business / Fortune ·
“It’s not just about who wins,” one political spending expert said. “It's about setting the agenda and what types of issues we talk about.”
Tech / Wired ·
Showrunner Silka Luisa and star Hunter Schafer want their series, Blade Runner 2099, to show the benefits of a post-revolution world.
Business / Fortune ·
Three Democratic governors elected Tuesday have promised to reexamine data center expansion.
Tech / Wired ·
Google is tying up AI Overviews with traditional search, angering parents and educators who worry that easy, machine-generated answers are leaving kids less capable.
Business / Crunchbase News ·
So far this year, less than 2% of all startup investment has gone to companies in post-election red states, a share that is much smaller than in years’ past due to five states shifting to purple in the most recent election.
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI is adding a GIF feature to ChatGPT. With the new Images 2.6 model, users can create animated GIFs from text prompts or photos and then adjust speed and individual frames. The model's image consistency is strong enough to keep characters recognizable across frames, making flipbook-style…
Business / Fortune ·
The judge also concluded the company failed to notify users about thousands of applications associated with data misuse.
Business / Fortune ·
Between 2019 and 2025, demand for generator step-up transformers, those that connect power plants to the transmission grid, nearly tripled.
Business / Fortune ·
Before age 5, children from the poorest fourth of families receive about $44,000 less in total investments than children from the richest fourth.
Business / Fortune ·
FEMA owes local governments almost $10 billion in reimbursements for recovery work that cities and towns have already paid for.
Tech / Wired ·
From top officials like Pete Hegseth to White House aides to right-wing pundits, the race is on to find someone besides Donald Trump to blame for the Republicans’ catastrophic losses.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining…
AI / TechCrunch ·
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
Tech / The Verge ·
X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users. "Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said in a blog post about the changes. […]