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Business / Fortune ·
Overall, 27% of young people – meaning people ages 18 to 29 – went to the polls during the midterms, our Nov. 5 analysis shows.
Business / Fortune ·
Right before 1974's midterm election, Gerald Ford launched the “Whip Inflation Now,” campaign. But Republicans lost 48 House seats and five Senate seats.
Business / Fortune ·
This translates to a 30% reduction in revenue for Florida counties and a 13% cut for smaller municipal governments.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
6 pallets of hardware vanished en route to Texas, with no arrests 2 months later.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Developer: “I can’t be part of the Fox world.”
AI / The Decoder ·
Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple…
Business / Fortune ·
He erased the deficit and won the all-important runoff election by more than 3.5 percentage points – more than 4 million votes.
Business / Fortune ·
Even Ferrari’s former chairman warned the EV risked destroying the reputation of the brand.
Business / Crunchbase News ·
This week brought another plethora of large funding rounds for startups and growth-stage companies. Shield AI, a defense tech player focused on autonomy and virtual simulations, secured the largest financing, bringing in $2 billion. Next on the list was drone delivery provider Zipline International,…
Business / Fortune ·
In a safety test run by the company Anthropic, its own AI agent blackmailed an engineer to avoid being shut down.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
FAA information display systems to be floppy-free at 435 sites by end of 2028.
Business / Fortune ·
Nebraska voters narrowly rejected to legalize mobile sports betting in the state.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Microsoft is winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle after declining to renew it, Bloomberg reports. The servers ran older Nvidia chips. Microsoft is reassessing more than $80B in contracts with outside cloud providers. Microsoft is winding down a deal to rent AI computing power…
Tech / Wired ·
The new Essential and certain colors of the original Classic are at their lowest prices of the year.
Tech / Wired ·
I’ve already found early deals on our favorite WIRED-tested mattresses and sleep accessories.
AI / The Verge ·
OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuation of $852 billion. Echoing FT and Wall…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Tech / Wired ·
An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
Stuntman/director Chad Stahelski and 87Eleven bring us an action-packed dystopian, futuristic thriller.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Elon Musk said government contracts will make up less than 10% of SpaceX’s revenue this quarter, down from 16.6%. SpaceX now earns most from renting AI computing, with Anthropic its biggest customer, though Anthropic can exit from early 2027. Government contracts will make up less than 10% of…
Tech / Ars Technica ·
"The Blacklift rocket is the springboard to significantly expand our total addressable market."
Business / Fortune ·
"A 'no' vote doesn't mean similar measures won’t ever be implemented."
Business / Fortune ·
Trump admitted on election night the war hurt Republicans. Gas is up 40% since it began, and tariffs cost families $1,000 a year.