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Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections

Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Artificial intelligence remains deeply unpopular with the American public. One poll found it’s even more reviled than ICE, which is no small feat given the mass protests that erupt whenever the agency’s goons march into another US city. A few political action groups are hoping to turn that around. Going into the 2026 midterm elections, the Financial Times reports, newly-formed PACs with major tech industry backing are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shape how voters think about AI regulation. Some of the groups cast a wide net, like Leading the Future, a super PAC backed by Trump donors and AI barons like OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and tech venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in August of 2025, Leading the Future has raised over $125 million to back pro-AI candidates who oppose state-level regulations, according to the FT. Others, like the pro-regulation PAC Public First Action, serve as vehicles for individual AI …

Nobody sums up the riddle of this England team better than Will Jacks

Nobody sums up the riddle of this England team better than Will Jacks

Published by Sam Flores

With the bat, Jacks once again arrived with England facing strife. Both openers perished within the opening eight balls; Jos Buttler’s expression, after edging Lockie Ferguson behind to fall for a duck, was of the hangdog variety once again. When Curran was caught by a full-length dive from Phillips, England were marooned on 100 for five after 14.3 overs, needing another 60 from 33 balls. This World Cup, Jacks has tended to feast on pace. But with the R Premadasa Stadium offering sharp turn, Jacks recognised that he could not wait for the seamers to return. Against his fourth delivery, he reverse-swept Ish Sodhi for four over backward point. With England needing 43 from the last three overs, he recognised the need to target Phillips’s off-spin. Jacks ended the over with three emphatic blows – a heave over midwicket for six, a straight drive for four and a pull through square leg. After another scruffy performance, England’s moment of victory felt apt. Jacks missed an attempted pull off Matt Henry, but the ball deflected off …

Szoboszlai’s ‘disrespectful’ showboating sums up Liverpool season of self-sabotage

Szoboszlai’s ‘disrespectful’ showboating sums up Liverpool season of self-sabotage

Published by Sam Flores

Arne Slot makes six changes to the side that drew at Arsenal last Thursday. The good news is that Hugo Ekitike is back in the squad after missing the last two matches. Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones; Ngumoha, Chiesa, Gakpo.Subs: Alisson, Endo, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Ekitike, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Ramsay. For Barnsley, captain Luca Connell is serving a ban so Davis Keillor-Dunn will lead the side out. Barnsley: Cooper; Watson, de Gevigney, Shepherd,,O’Keeffe, Ogbeta; Phillips, Yoganathan, Keillor-Dunn, Bland; Cleary.Subs: Flavell, Roberts, McGoldrick, Jalo, O’Connell, Gent, Kelly, Barratt, Farrell. Source link

Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

Published by José Betancourt

If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video. In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to do exactly what it tells you to do doesn’t come close to working as advertised.  At the start of the video, the settings page search bar, with its gleaming AI icon, recommends searching “My mouse pointer is too small.” This goes against the common search function wisdom that you should look up using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: AI magic can take care of that for you, right? But as it turns out, when Fleury searches “My mouse pointer is too small,” as exactly phrased by the search suggestion, nothing turns up. He waits around ten seconds with no luck, either. But when he looks up “test” afterwards, he gets three results. “This is not a real company,” Fleury fumed. He was …