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Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.

NVIDIA forms the Open Source Secure AI Alliance for safer AI, while a judge allows a lawsuit against Automattic to proceed.

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.

The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487 #michelangelo #highrenaissance

“Senate Majority Leader John Thune has one of the toughest jobs in Washington. It could get even harder next year,” Axios reports. “Thune is one of the few Republicans in Washington who’s managed to say ‘no’ to President Trump and still keep his job. But the Senate leader could enter the next Congress with diminished […]

“A one-on-one matchup between Republican Kurt Alme and independent Seth Bodnar in Montana’s Senate race is looking less likely,” Semafor reports. “The Montana Secretary of State’s office tells Semafor that there’s no wiggle room if Democratic Senate candidate Alani Bankhead drops out of the race in the next two weeks.” Said a spokesperson for Montana […]

“President Donald Trump recently pardoned a major Republican donor three days after the man — a key figure in the Jack Abramoff fraud and lobbying scandal — made a political donation to Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), who’s facing one of the nation’s most contested House races,” NOTUS reports.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group known as AIPAC, has spent a record amount of money in this year’s midterm elections to either oust or support candidates based on their support of Israel. Jonathan Mahler, a writer for The New York Tim...

We work so hard to have freedom and leverage and choice. And then, as soon as a social network, boss or cultural force instructs us to do something, we fold our tents and go along. Responsibility is scary. Sometimes it’s easier to find someone (or something) to blame. Just because AI tells you to put […]

On Fox News, Donald Trump threatened to bomb all of Iran’s bridges and all of its power plants. Making this worse, Trump declared that his threat could leave all of Iran’s 91 million people without power. That may be the first time Trump has exp...

This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.

Vasily Kandinsky, Vignette next to "Chalk and Soot" (Vignette bei "Kreide und Russ") (headpiece, folio 48) from Klänge (Sounds), (1913) #vasilykandinsky #museumofmodernart

Untitled, 1942 #surrealism #rothko

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has directed every city agency to identify 2.5% in savings ahead of an estimated $6 billion budget hole next year, launching his first full cost-cutting initiative weeks after he and the City Council inked this year’s budget.  The administration said it would survey city workers for inefficiencies across the sprawling city government. […]

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The Justice Department announced a $3.85 million settlement with an embattled union and several of its affiliates over allegations they improperly pocketed millions in COVID-era hardship funds. The International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades (IUJAT) and the Home Healthcare Workers of America (HHWA), as well as two other affiliates and the unions’ welfare fund, […]

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