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The Online Right’s Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes
With Democrats poised to make significant gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump supporters have been reduced to posting bizarre Star Wars fan fiction.
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Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
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How Trump’s trade policy is handing Asia to Beijing
Usually, U.S. statecraft is designed to help American companies succeed abroad. President Donald Trump’s trade program is having the reverse effect.
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Why large dogs age faster than small ones, and other October research highlights
Plus invisible tattoos, medieval skeleton gets an ID, trapping a single antimatter particle, and more.
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Anthropic warns that it’s very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
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Sweetgreen managers could earn more than $200,000 a year under a new pay plan, as the salad chain bets higher pay will lift sales
Starting in 2027, the salad chain will raise base pay by up to 45% at higher-volume stores and give managers a cut of revenue when their restaurants beat sales targets.
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The Pentagon is investigating if rogue freezers are tied to cyberattacks in France. Another wave of hacks is hitting supermarkets across Europe
Last month, hundreds of French grocery store freezers were hacked. In August, half a dozen U.S. military commissaries experienced similar outages.
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Apple outpaces sales expectations as it continues to battle surging memory chip costs
Monday’s earnings report is the first under new CEO John Ternus.
Business / Fortune ·
In-N-Out may expand to these 3 states next, owner Lynsi Snyder says, as the 445-location burger chain pushes farther east
Snyder told actor Terry Crews in an interview on the company’s website that the chain’s Texas supply route to Tennessee could make all three states a natural next step.
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Palantir’s US commercial sales top government revenue for the first time
Palantir’s US commercial business brought in more revenue than its US government work for the first time in the third quarter. US commercial revenue rose 148% from a year earlier to $984m, the company said in its earnings release on Monday. Revenue from the US government rose 96% to $953m. Total…
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Palantir’s revenue rises 96% to $2.3 billion as investors’ patience rests on a hair trigger
Palantir Technologies shares rose 1.5% before falling amid a spreading AI selloff in other tech stocks.
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After topping 2024’s donor list, Elon Musk said he’d do ‘a lot less.’ Since then, he’s given more than George Soros has personally in his lifetime
Musk has given $427 million to federal political groups since May 2025. Soros has given $243 million of his own money since 1979.
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How to Save $25 on Burga’s Phone Accessories With This Sale
Whether you need a phone case, magnetic ring, Apple Watch band, or power bank, now’s a great time to save $25 on orders over $50.
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Third person dies of bird flu since virus started jumping to livestock
The threat is still considered to be low, but the virus continues to spread.
Business / Fortune ·
AI is just the newest threat to Etsy’s handmade promise
New rules target AI-generated listings, but shoppers say copied designs and fake “handmade” goods were eroding their confidence long before.
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Google opens its UK offices to union recruiters after a change in the law
Google has agreed to let the Prospect union speak to its UK staff in its offices, including its King’s Cross headquarters. It follows a new UK law, in force since Friday, giving unions a right to access workplaces. Prospect signed a similar deal with Meta in September. Google has agreed to let the…
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Americans now spend nearly half of their budgets on food and housing alone, the biggest share in 15 years
Housing and food spending rose faster than inflation in 2025, just as consumer sentiment is stuck near all-time lows.
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Best Dyson Vacuum Deals (2026): Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai, Dyson V16 Piston Animal
Black Friday is still weeks away, but you don’t have to wait for a good sale on Dyson vacuums.
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Squarespace lays off 19% of staff, about 300 people
Squarespace is laying off 19% of its workforce, about 300 people, The Verge reported on Monday. The website builder has about 1,800 employees worldwide. Most of the cuts hit product and engineering teams, according to a companywide memo from chief executive Anthony Casalena seen by Business Insider.…
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Apple spyware alerts reach German MPs and journalists in 99 countries
Germany’s cybersecurity agency has told lawmakers who got Apple’s spyware warnings to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised. Several Bundestag members and other public figures have received the alerts since 29 October. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said so in a note on…
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New Zealand’s central bank registers Revolut as the country’s 27th bank
Revolut has been registered as a bank in New Zealand, clearing the way for the fintech to expand its financial services in the country. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the approval on Tuesday, local time, making Revolut Bank New Zealand the country’s 27th registered bank. The…
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Microsoft and Lumen will jointly sell networks built for AI on Azure
Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their partnership to jointly sell networking to companies running AI on Azure. Lumen plans to bring its full cloud networking range to Azure. No figures or dates were given. Microsoft and Lumen Technologies will jointly sell networking to large…
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Anthropic’s message threads let Claude agents skip resending chats
Anthropic launched message threads in public beta for its API. Agents send the full conversation once, then only new messages, which Anthropic says cuts the wait before Claude replies by about 35% on very long sessions. Prices and rate limits stay the same. Anthropic has launched message threads,…
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UiPath’s Dines says people must steer AI and answer for what it does
UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines told customers at FUSION in Dubai on Monday that companies will hand more and more work to AI. People, he said, will have to steer it and answer for what it does. He spoke at the Museum of the Future. “We need to educate our people to take a […] This story…