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October 17, 2026
Trump ratchets up the chaos in an October barrage
President Trump is carrying his insatiable appetite for controversy into the most unforgiving stretch of the electoral calendar, fortified by a decade of political survival."Bottom line, it's gonna...
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October 14, 2026
Trump plays Russian roulette on eve of midterms
President Trump is indulging his fondness for Vladimir Putin at a moment of acute political peril, forcing Republicans in the midterms to take cover as he showers Moscow with one-sided concessions....
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October 14, 2026
Ossoff rejects 2028 buzz amid bruising night of Senate debates
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) delivered another debate performance tailor-made for social media Tuesday night, feeding the presidential speculation he insists is entirely misplaced.Why it matters: A darl...
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October 1, 2026
Trump, Big AI go all-in together
President Trump and the AI industry have co-signed one of the biggest economic and technological wagers of all time.If it goes right: A new age of abundance — explosive productivity, staggering wea...
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September 30, 2026
Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition
With America's tech titans crowded around a single White House table Tuesday, President Trump extracted what he called a "morally binding" compact on AI safety.The terms were simple: Press ahead, p...
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September 23, 2026
The All-In-ification of Trump's AI agenda
President Trump's accelerationist AI doctrine increasingly bears the stamp of the "All-In" podcast, whose tech-investor network now feeds ideas and talent directly into the White House.Why it matte...
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September 22, 2026
U.S.-China "red telephone" could bring a Cold War guardrail to AI
A distinctly Cold War calculus is looming over this week's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, as the U.S. and China weigh an emergency "red phone" for the day AI goes haywire.Why it matters: U.S.-China...
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September 15, 2026
"I am the Hoax Buster": Trump's war on AI doomers gets personal
President Trump declared war on the AI safety panic Monday, dismissing the industry's apocalyptic warnings as part of a "sick conspiracy" to sabotage America and his legacy.Why it matters: Trump is...
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September 14, 2026
Washington's AI paralysis: Let 'er rip vs. hit the brakes
President Trump is as all-in on AI as a politician could be: all gas, no brakes, and zero interest in hand-wringing about dystopian risks or public disdain.Democrats are as conflicted on AI as a pa...
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September 12, 2026
Anthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression
The AI safety debate exploded this week over warnings that the technology could one day destroy humanity.Anthropic's latest threat report offers a more immediate wake-up call: Today's models are al...
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September 9, 2026
AI's extinction debate breaks containment
An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction.Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, ...
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September 2, 2026
Pentagon turmoil deepens as Hegseth consolidates control
The Pentagon has entered a period of profound institutional turmoil, as a crisis of leadership at home converges with a crisis of capacity abroad.Why it matters: Six months into the Iran war, Pete ...
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August 31, 2026
"Let data reign": Trump and AI investors wage campaign to save data centers
President Trump has a new message for Americans rebelling over the nation's data-center boom: Get over it."If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame," Trump warned Monday....
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August 29, 2026
The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI's HuggingFace investigation
Two new investigations into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shocks in the history of AI.Why ...
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August 25, 2026
Trump's Iran "D-Day" leaves sanctions hammer hanging
President Trump's "economic D-Day" for Iran came and went Monday with little of the shock or awe it promised, amounting instead to yet another extended ultimatum.Why it matters: Operation Economic ...
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August 21, 2026
America's capital crunch: Soaring debt collides with AI spending spree
America is caught in a historic capital squeeze:On one side: Trillions Washington must borrow to pay for the past.On the other: Trillions the economy needs to build the future.Why it matters: The n...
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August 20, 2026
Data center uproar scrambles the midterm election
A new populist fever is coursing through the midterms, forcing campaigns to retreat and recalibrate as they confront a groundswell of hostility toward AI data centers.Why it matters: Grassroots pre...
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August 18, 2026
Trump torches allies as Iran exposes limits of hard power
President Trump has a new rule for America's partners: Cross him in one theater, and the consequences will follow you into the next.Why it matters: Trump has spent his second term battering U.S. al...
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August 11, 2026
Tenacious AI agents expose dark side of machine autonomy
New revelations about "rogue" AI agents have exposed a dystopian hazard: Give an agent a goal, and it may decide that hacking, deception or rule-breaking is worth the payoff.Why it matters: Billion...
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August 6, 2026
Tucker Carlson unveils 10-point manifesto amid third-party speculation
Tucker Carlson used a highly promoted livestream Wednesday to unveil a 10-point vision for America — defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with President Trump.Why...
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August 1, 2026
DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero
Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/AxiosChinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign that some of the smar...
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July 30, 2026
AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown
America's AI architects are converging on a chilling consensus: The pace of progress may soon demand a slowdown, but no single lab can afford to pull the brake alone.Why it matters: Momentum for an...
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July 29, 2026
Anthropic's lonely island
Anthropic spent this winter and spring as the darling of America's AI boom, conquering the frontier while casting itself as the industry's moral conscience.By summer, the Claude maker had found its...
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July 22, 2026
Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes America has nothing to fear from China's open-source AI models — and everything to fear from the growing campaign to ban them."These Chinese models are excellent," ...
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