📰 From the Digest

Democratic groups allege the Justice Department threatened and intimidated election officials to purge voters ahead of the midterms.

The Brennan Center's Michael Waldman argues most of Trump's efforts to reshape voting have failed in court or Congress.

A group of national security experts is advising states on how to respond to any federal interference on Election Day.

Anthropic's revenue rose 45 percent to $16.8 billion, but investors are discussing a roughly $1.5 trillion IPO valuation, below earlier $2 trillion talk.

Refacto AI reads Anthropic's leaked S-1 as showing its cloud providers, now rivals, are rationing its compute.

Sundar Pichai says Google's cloud business forgoes short-term revenue to give compute to frontier models like Gemini 4 Argon.

Accenture estimates large enterprises' AI token spending will approach $3.6 billion within two years, though only 20 percent of workflows need frontier models.

Tesla and SpaceX formed special committees to explore a merger of Musk's companies, a combination worth about $3.5 trillion.

Meta's third-quarter spending was expected to rise 117 percent year over year to $41 billion as the AI buildout continues.

The AI Furnace rounds up Anthropic's IPO doubts, enterprise AI token costs and Character AI's bankruptcy.

Meta's Republican policy chief Joel Kaplan is leaving as Democrats look likely to win at least one chamber of Congress.

Ken Griffin says AI is coming for white-collar jobs, though not at his own firms.

Netflix opened pause ads and live inventory to every major DSP, which Refacto argues trades scarcity for volume at much lower auction prices.

Apple's WebKit team laid out its case for blocking identity-resolution companies in Safari while its own ads business grows.

Independent agencies say The Trade Desk and Amazon DSP deny them direct seats and fee relief despite their spending commitments.