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“President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters ​he planned to allocate $400 million to $500 ‌million from his MAGA Inc. super PAC to boost Republican candidates in midterm November elections,” Reuters reports. “Trump also said, ​during an event in the Oval ​Office, that his super PAC has about $1 ⁠billion in it.”

“James Talarico is planning to counterprogram President Donald Trump’s GOP midterms convention in Dallas with a focus on affordability,” Politico reports. Said Talarico: “Next week, billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to clink champagne glasses and toast their own corruption. They’re paying $20,000 for entry to a Billionaire […]

When I talked about the rise of Cancer Capital, I mentioned that it represents a massive shift from how venture capital has worked over the years. But my conversations in recent years with people in tech, and especially with those outside the industry, reveal that most folks...

I’ve got access to Astra now and have no idea what to build, as if I suddenly have writer’s block. Anyone have a feature request or bug that we’ve overlooked?

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s latest Cyberflop, lots of cheap Ford electric pickups, VW in trouble, and more.

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For the first time, an autonomous EV might show up if you order an Uber in London.

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A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

When the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

When the risk to feel embarrassed becomes more painful than the risk it takes to try. Well, I know which risk I’d rather take. I need to take. It’s the same one I want for y’all…

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“President Donald Trump on Friday labeled the Iran war ‘small potatoes,’ the latest attempt to minimize a six-month conflict that caused a spike in gas prices and led to the deaths of 18 American service-members,” CNN reports. Said Trump: “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because […]

“Rep. James Comer (R-KY) indicated on Thursday that he has been in contact Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) staff, who have indicated that the aim is for the lawmaker to return to the Senate later this month,” Fox News reports.

“Labor Day gas prices are slated to be the highest on record, surpassing the previous one set in 2012,” Axios reports.

These are the big features that remain to be done in Atlantis, the new version of Frontier in development with myself and Claude. The one that's bold is what we're working on now. I want to get it into shipping shape. And a couple of the things on the list came from Claude a...

OpenAI releasing major upgrade to ChatGPT and Codex with GPT-6 Astra.

Sometimes the chaotic, unforgiving universe briefly and ecstatically snaps itself into harmony, like when the Fibonacci sequence shows up in a head of Romanesco broccoli, or a small rock balances atop a bigger rock, or when a certain permanently adrift Australian basketball ...

“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday intended to make it easier for ranchers and farmers to process their own meat and sell it directly to consumers, characterizing the move as an effort to reduce the industry’s reliance on a handful of large meat-packers,” NOTUS reports.

The Home Depot Labor Day sale goes hard on grills and tools. Here are our recommendations on what to buy—and what to ignore.

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.