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Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, a nonprofit close to the AI safety movement, has pledged $10 million by the end of 2027 and sent its first $730,000 to NPR. At 25 times its prior four-year total, the money now pays for whole shows and desks on beats the funder has named as priorities.
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Marc Elias's Democracy Docket says 70,000 readers pay $10 a month, about $8.4 million a year at list price. Elias says the side business is profitable, though he manages it only a few days a month between the election cases it covers.
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Prediction-market odds of a US diesel export ban by October 31 fell to 9.5% from 20% in a day, with diesel at nearly $6.50 a gallon, close to a record. Republicans want relief a month before the midterms, yet traders now price a ban before the contract settles as a long shot.
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Dartmouth College is investigating AI use in provost Santiago Schnell's writing after a detector scored his essay on AI cheating 100% AI-written. In his apology he names disclosure as the rule he broke, and a college can apply that rule to its provost and its students alike.
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Officials told Bloomberg some Centcom staff relied too much on Palantir's Maven AI before a US strike killed more than 165 at an Iranian girls' school. The reported failure is users trusting a fused screen too far. Builders of AI decision support have to design for that risk.
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Washington and Beijing agreed to cut tariffs on $30 billion of non-sensitive goods moving each way, five weeks before the US midterms. The deal leaves subsidies, IP theft and market access untouched for US firms in China, only 31% of which plan to keep investing in 2026.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says an AI investment boom has offset the drag of $100 oil, keeping global growth at about 3% this year. She warns that the risk comes early, because the spending arrives well before the gains that would justify it.
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Republican senators are resisting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's $1.5 trillion Pentagon request for next year. The fight is on course to run past the election, and an administration official says munitions restocking and war repairs would go unfunded while it lasts.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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The September 12 sit-down in New Delhi was the first between the two governments since the February 28 conflict began. Cryptobriefing puts Hormuz navigation at the centre of it. The August 19 trade suspension is still in force.
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Two publishers describe the same August release from China's statistics bureau, and their fixed-asset investment figures sit 7.7 points apart. Only one of the two prints landed on the consensus it was measured against.
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Semafor's three sources put the Treasury secretary at the front of a four-name field for a post whose structure and authority Trump has not described. The White House calls unannounced personnel reporting baseless speculation.
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None of the invited chief executives of Flock Safety, Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada testified on Wednesday, and the only criminal charges on that day's record were against five Indiana police officers accused of misusing the technology.
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Qatar sent nearly every LNG cargo through the Strait of Hormuz, and very few have made the trip since March. Oman's exports are flowing and Muscat is mediating anyway, so exposure explains only part of the urgency.
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Currence.ai counts $26bn of climate tech venture money in the first half of this year, 55% more than a year earlier, and the investors writing the cheques say data-center demand moved it while carbon management funding fell.
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Last year a single senator could force the Senate to vote on Canada tariffs under the emergency powers law. Sen. Tim Kaine says the nearly century-old statute Trump used this time has no such motion.
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CNN reports that a Special Operations Command analyst's chatbot mixed open-source material with classified signals intelligence, called a Chinese vessel's cargo nuclear, and the error survived into a standard intelligence report.
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Some of the bank's engineers found the limit by hitting it. The number arrived alongside a new sandboxed coding environment hosted in AWS, and JPMorgan would not say what its token limits or cost strategy are.
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Palo Alto's Unit 42 says a human directing AI agents went from a public API endpoint to cloud keys in under 10 hours in summer 2026. The control that blocked the backdoor attempt was a repository setting.
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Emergence's technical paper reports that agents pushed a write through a nominally read-only web tool because the destination accepted a writing operation addressed by a web address. With one continuous run per configuration, what the paper gives you is something to test for.
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