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Democrats Eyeing 2028 Presidential Campaigns Begin Courting Donors and Operatives (Gift Article)

As soon as the midterms are over, presidential contenders are going to need to raise millions, quickly.

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The Atlantic opinionbusiness
The Great AI Hedge

Is there any way to plan for what may be coming next?

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San Francisco Chronicle transportationbusinesstechnology
Tesla Semi truck fire shuts down major Bay Area freeway for hours

A Tesla Semi truck battery fire forced the closure of I-880 in both directions in Hayward. Northbound lanes have reopened, but southbound lanes could remain closed into Wednesday.

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New York Times culturetechnologybusiness
Harvard’s Asian Student Enrollment Jumps as Black Enrollment Declines (Gift Article)

Harvard’s Asian American student enrollment jumped to 43 percent and Black students enrollment dipped to 9 percent after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in 2023.

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New York Times business
Which $1.5 Million Home Would You Buy? (Gift Article)

This week’s listings are a space age-inspired house in Idyllwild, Calif., a Cape Cod in Charlottesville, Va., and a condo in Washington, D.C.

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Bloomberg politicsbusiness
The AI Fed Votes to Hold Interest Rates Steady

Will the real Federal Reserve follow suit?

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Medium sportsbusinesstechnology
Hex Cycle V: Complete

Tome of The Sixth Sun — A Cosmic Dramady

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New York Times businesspolitics
U.S. Restricts Trade With Chinese Genomics Company (Gift Article)

The move will block shipments from BGI, a major Chinese firm that U.S. officials allege is associated with forced labor and the abuse of minority groups.

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New York Times sportstechnologybusiness
Chiefs signing kicker Justin Tucker to practice squad (Gift Article)

While a free agent last season, Tucker served a 10-game suspension for violations of the NFL's personal conduct policy.

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New York Times politicsbusiness
The Federal Reserve Will Release Its Interest Rate Decision Today. Here’s What to Watch. (Gift Article)

The central bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, just days before the midterm elections.

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New York Times businesspolitics
A Punishing Housing Market Is Squeezing Renters (Gift Article)

Higher mortgage rates and slowing residential construction are again giving landlords the upper hand.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Where the Internet Lives Now

“Networks of New York” serves as a spotter’s guide to the city’s internet infrastructure, updated for a new era of data centers, surveillance tech, and AI fears.

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San Francisco Chronicle businesstechnology
S.F. Genentech employee identified as first local victim of new opioid sold in smoke shops

The synthetic drug is sold openly at smoke shops and gas stations, but can be deadly.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
US Data Centers Could Undo 15 Years of Declines in Power Emissions

Data center developers are turning to natural gas to meet AI’s immense electricity demand.

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Medium businessscienceworld
The Mythology of Lord Dunsany

Œ’s tribute to the King of Dreams

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National Observer politicstechnologybusiness
Calgary’s mayor wants a moratorium on data centres

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas will join four city councillors in proposing a moratorium on new data centre development in the city. Calgary would be the second Alberta municipality to consider pausing n...

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New York Times business
Did the Hardest A.I. Problem Just Get Much Easier? (Gift Article)

A prominent researcher claims to have a revolutionary approach to “interpretability,” or the science of why A.I. models do what they do. Other experts aren’t so sure.

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Bloomberg businesspolitics
Your Healthcare Sticker Shock Has Been Decades in the Making

Welcome to open enrollment season, when millions of Americans are yet again wracked with anxiety over the sizable chunk of their paychecks being sucked up by healthcare costs.

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New York Times culturetechnologybusiness
Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. (Gift Article)

Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

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New York Times businesspolitics
How to Tax and Spend in a ‘Turbulent Time?’ U.K. Tries a Balancing Act. (Gift Article)

The new government, led by Andy Burnham, will deliver its first budget on Wednesday, a plan expected to tread between wide ambition and narrow financial limits.

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New York Times businessculture
How a Walmart Heir Is Transforming Rural Arkansas Into a Design Powerhouse (Gift Article)

Alice Walton is helping the Ozark region shed its “flyover” status by creating civic projects with top architects. The Waltons say they are “giving back.” What is the region giving up?

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National Observer businesspoliticsworld
Ontario bill targets waste as US tariffs hit

The Ford government announced an omnibus bill on Tuesday that includes measures to create new landfills and incinerators across the province amid new US tariffs on waste.

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Bloomberg businesspoliticstechnology
A New Era of Debt Doom Loops Has Begun

Anybody who has lived through the past quarter century or so is familiar with the concept of a debt doom loop. Big government deficits, say, cause higher interest rates, making the government pay more to borrow and also bail out the banks that own its sinking bonds, driving it even deeper into debt. Rinse, repeat.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Wall Street’s AI Debt Machine Is Starting to Choke on Supply

A new anxiety is gripping Wall Street as it bankrolls the vast network of data centers and chips behind the artificial intelligence boom: Early signs suggest that the credit market is approaching the ...

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New York Times businessopinion
Opinion | Is This the Gateway Drug for Gambling? (Gift Article)

We actually can regulate prediction markets, and we should do it now.

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Bloomberg businesstechnologyscience
A Guide to the Circular Deals Underpinning the AI Boom

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential.

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New York Times businesspoliticstechnology
Trump Administration Backs Down on an Opioid Ban After Kratom Industry Lobbying (Gift Article)

Health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural. The change could help a G.O.P. donor facing wrongful death lawsuits.

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NRC politicsworldbusiness
De ‘generaal’ die via sociale media Lula’s campagne wist te redden

André Janones: Op verrassende wijze won de Braziliaanse president Lula da Silva zondag een nieuwe termijn. Daarbij speelde één man in zijn campagne een cruciale rol: de advocaat, politicus en influenc...

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The Times (UK) business
Sizewell C stitch-up is looking increasingly radioactive

MPs’ report on the £40bn nuclear power plant points out obvious flaws that leave taxpayers on the hook and give investors a golden rod

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Medium businessculturehealth
The Silent Tap on the Shoulder: Microsoft, Capital Realignment, and the Involuntary Entrepreneur

When five decades of corporate paternalism yield to algorithmic capital, a gilded workforce must rediscover autonomy.

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New York Times business
The Bedeviling Work of Designing and Redesigning Haunted Houses (Gift Article)

If you’re looking for the ultimate home renovation project, try opening a haunted house.

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New York Times businesspolitics
California’s High Tides Set Records This Week. They’re Going to Get Higher. (Gift Article)

El Niño is expected to push this winter’s high tides even higher.

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New York Times legalsportsbusiness
Grand Jury Declines to Bring Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson (Gift Article)

The rejection of the indictment was the latest extraordinary setback in President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Apple Bets MacBook Pro Buyers Will Pay More for Touch Screens

Apple Inc., after successfully betting this month that consumers are willing to pay $2,000 or more for a foldable iPhone, is preparing to test their appetite for another pricey new product: touch-scre...

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Bloomberg businesspolitics
EPA Readies Bid to Ease Methane Controls for Oil, Gas Companies

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is readying a proposal to loosen federal rules designed to cut methane releases from oil and gas operations.

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New York Times culturebusiness
Sifting Through the Train Thefts of Los Angeles (Gift Article)

A Union Pacific rail hub is strewn with the castoffs from goods looted from train cars that dip below street level. The company put losses, claims and damages at about $5 million.

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
Anthropic IPO Filing Calms Nerves With Signs of Healthy Growth

Anthropic PBC set itself a challenge by opening its books to prospective IPO investors right after a punishing week for the artificial intelligence trade. When Wall Street took a close look, it genera...

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The Times (UK) worldbusiness
Liz Truss has now shown she’s as good a writer as she was a prime minister

This new memoir, Bank Job, is a pedantic screed and will not widen her appeal in the US — nor will it salvage her reputation at home

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Bloomberg businesstechnology
China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices

Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.

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Bloomberg healthbusiness
The Race for the Worst Job in California Politics

The two candidates for state insurance commissioner want to rework homeowners’ insurance after two devastating wildfires last year.

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New York Times businessworld
E.P.A. to Loosen Methane Rules for Oil Firms (Gift Article)

The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.

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China Steps In to Rescue Stocks, But the Market Continues to Fall (Gift Article)

The Communist Party uses a “national team” of state-owned investment funds to stem the market rout. But this time, investors are not sure it will work.

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Bloomberg businesspolitics
Trump to Ease Oil Well Methane Curbs in Bid to Lower Costs

President Donald Trump is set to unveil a plan to dial back federal requirements designed to slash methane emissions from oil and gas operations, casting the proposal as a way to encourage more domest...

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New York Times businesspolitics
Veronica Burton, soul of the Valkyries, embraces leading a team on the verge of history (Gift Article)

"We feed off her energy," said Kaila Charles of Burton, who is realizing a long held dream as Golden State's leader.

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New York Times businesspolitics
Skeleton of Nanotyrannus ‘Jodi,’ T. Rex’s Cousin, Is Auctioned for $47.3 Million (Gift Article)

The Nanotyrannus specimen is the latest dinosaur fossil to fetch a high price at a private auction, this time at Sotheby’s.

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New York Times technologysportsbusiness
After logging off Instagram, Matvei Michkov is lighting up the scoresheet (Gift Article)

After a difficult start to the season, the young Flyers forward has shot off like a rocket and helped invigorate the power play.

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New York Times businesstechnology
In Anthropic I.P.O., Goldman and Morgan Stanley Slug It Out for Top Bank (Gift Article)

Anthropic named the Wall Street firms lead underwriters on its upcoming public offering, a role that will generate generous fees and enormous prestige.

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New York Times businessculture
The Fed Is Expected to Hold Rates Steady. Warsh Will Have to Explain Why. (Gift Article)

Inflation is moving in the wrong direction and the labor market remains stable, a combination that bolsters the case for higher interest rates.

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Medium businesstechnology
Wings of Multipolarity: Russia-India Aviation Venture Reshapes Aerospace Realities

Decades of partnership open manufacturing and connectivity frontiers as Western aerospace faces shifting global dynamics.

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New York Times business
How Billionaires Are Fighting the Prop 40 California Wealth Tax (Gift Article)

The latest Silicon Valley billionaire club is a $333 million political ad machine that is heavily engaged in next week’s elections.

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