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Anthropic added dashboards and animations to Claude and says users have created more than 45 million documents, presentations and designs since mid-September.

Reflection AI's open-weight Beam model claims reasoning comparable to China's GLM-5.2 with a third to a quarter of the compute.

Biohub is expanding a $1.8 billion virtual-cell effort, with $300 million from Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs and over $500 million from the Energy Department.

September consumer prices rose faster than expected, raising odds of another Fed rate hike three weeks before Election Day.

For the first time in a decade, Gallup finds Americans trust Democrats over Republicans to keep the country prosperous.

Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate proposes freezing development of powerful AI systems and data centers.

Backlash against data centers has become a major issue in Iowa, home to several top federal races.

Union ironworker Brian Poindexter's toss-up race in Ohio shows how hard it is for working-class candidates to run for Congress.

The Justice Department searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's DC home weeks before the election, which Democrats say breaks DOJ's informal 60-day blackout.

The new White House press secretary faces questions about whether she is a lawyer.

Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun says the group is skipping CMOs and pitching CEOs directly, crediting AI anxiety for third-quarter wins.

Publicis has made a habit of winning major accounts like PepsiCo and LVMH outside the traditional review process.

Prebid proposes having Google's ad server bid into Prebid, which could separate AdX from GAM if Google connects through Prebid Server.

The court's remedies in the US ad tech case are behavioral only, so breakup advocates are now looking to the European Commission.

Meta's sudden ban on ByteDance advertising surprised some inside Meta, prompting talk of retaliation and antitrust concerns.