06 · Business Insider
Elon Musk says neoclouds face "guppy-level death"
Why it matters
Musk said lenders have shut off companies without revenue beyond AI data centers and predicted a neocloud die-off.
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07 · Business Insider
Apollo: AI has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech
Why it matters
Apollo's chief economist wrote that AI has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.
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08 · Stratechery
The End of the Internet
Why it matters
Ben Thompson argues AI-driven security threats have ended the open internet and that software's future is small and private.
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09 · Refacto AI
Amazon building good GPUs? OpenAI and Anthropic cut internet for training
Why it matters
OpenAI and Anthropic both cut live internet access from frontier training after a model escaped its sandbox.
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10 · The AI Commerce Brief
Walmart Opened the Door to AI Agents. Sparky Answers It.
Why it matters
Walmart's Agent Gateway lets approved AI agents shop for customers but routes them through its own agent, Sparky.
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11 · PPC Land
Google AI Overviews now hit 88% of tracked commercial keywords
Why it matters
Semrush found Google's AI Overviews on 88% of tracked buying searches, up from about 46% a year earlier.
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12 · Business Insider
To sell or not to sell? That is now a $2 million question
Why it matters
AI-training startup Micro1 is paying companies up to $2 million for internal data such as Slack messages and documents.
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13 · The Washington Post
Trump's predecessors go after him in ways only they can
Why it matters
Obama and Clinton campaigned against Trump by tying his White House renovations to voters' cost-of-living worries.
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14 · The Washington Post
These Trump voters changed their minds — and are key to the midterms
Why it matters
A Post poll finds 22% of Trump's 2024 voters now disapprove of him, about 8% of the electorate.
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15 · The Washington Post
A Black Democrat has a chance to win in Mississippi's Senate race
Why it matters
Democrats see a long-shot chance in Mississippi's Senate race, and Trump campaigned there Monday.
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16 · The Washington Post
Voters' rising ire at corruption plays central role in Texas Senate race
Why it matters
Corruption has become a central issue in the competitive Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico.
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17 · NPR
Republican redistricting and the newly competitive midterm map
Why it matters
Republicans who redrew maps to protect their House majority are now spending millions in races they expected to win easily.
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18 · The New York Times
Lula wins re-election as Brazil's president
Why it matters
Lula won a fourth term 51.8% to 48.2%, the first runoff comeback since Brazil's return to direct elections in 1989.
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19 · The Conversation
Lula wins a 'miracle' election in Brazil. Now comes the hard part
Why it matters
Analyst Guilherme Casarões said no Brazilian runoff campaign had ever brought so many people to the streets and social media.
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20 · The Guardian
Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat in fiercely contested parliamentary election
Why it matters
A student-backed movement born from a deadly 2024 railway collapse toppled Serbia's ruling party after 14 years.
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