Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory

Sila's fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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Where's The Brain Bleach: Hunter Biden Paints Mental Image Of 'Really Kinky' Ted Cruz

In an appearance on progressive pundit Jennifer Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast, Hunter Biden got particularly candid when it came to his thoughts, feelings, and theories on Texas MAGA Senator Ted Cruz's sex life.

According to former President Joe Biden's controversial second son, he's unsure as to whether Ted Cruz is gay or not, but he's all but certain that the Texas Republican is into some "really kinky" stuff, going so far as to imply that there may even be animals involved behind the (thankfully) closed doors of Cruz's private life.

The rather bizarre conversation came to fruition after Welch asked for Biden's take on the "Top 3 MAGA laptops" he would like to see publicly revealed -- a play on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop scandal that still to this day plays rent-free on an infinite loop inside the hollow brains of the MAGA movement.

Hunter couldn't answer fast enough: "Ted Cruz, of course. 100%."

"Ugh, do you get a gaydar ping from Ted?" Welch asked the former First Son.

"No, you know what I get, I get a really, really kinky weird sh*t-type thing," Biden answered, before going in for the kill shot: "It may be gay, it may not be gay, it may be a little bit of this, it may be a little bit of that, but it may involve animals, too."

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Trump Doesn’t Let Troop Deaths Keep Him From Golfing

Donald Trump’s unnecessary war with Iran has claimed the lives of two more Americans, with a third missing, as I write this on Saturday afternoon.

The New York Times reported about this latest development in President Peace Prize’s war: “The deaths could prompt fierce retaliation, which would come on top of an already intensifying conflict. The United States and Iran expanded the scope and intensity of their attacks overnight, striking critical infrastructure sites that included a power station and water facilities, with no sign of an off-ramp to end the fighting.”

Funny, it was just two weeks ago that Trump declared Iran was “totally defeated militarily.” He made the same claim in April. But maybe Grampa Trump is having trouble remembering which killing spree is which in his “pro-life” administration.

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'People Could Die': WH 'Scrambled' To Stop Trump From Naming Names In Election Speech

According to a deeply unsettling new report from POLITICO, White House staffers were left "scrambling" to calm President Trump down and keep him restrained and on script during his big election fraud speech, after Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte took it upon himself to get the president "all spun up," only to tuck his tail right before Donald took the stage after he realized "people could die."

Inside sources with direct knowledge on the matter told POLITICO that Pulte was heavily pushing for Trump to publicly name the names of multiple intelligence analysts who stand accused by the Trump Administration of purposefully hiding "election interference" from the president.

Unsurprisingly, the mere notion of this move sent Donald Trump into a rabid tizzy, with sources describing him as "all spun up," ready to drop names like bombs from the stage, as senior White House officials "scrambled" to regain control of the situation before Pulte and Trump popped a Genie out of a bottle that could never be put back again.

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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

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Secret Service Shielding Donald Trump Jr From BBC Subpoena: Filing

The Secret Service has blocked the BBC from serving Donald Trump Jr. with a subpoena seeking his Jan. 6 communications, according to a court filing Friday.

The British Broadcasting Corporation disclosed the blockade in a filing that accused the Justice Department of a conflict of interest — fighting the same subpoena in court that a fellow executive branch agency was stopping on the ground.

President Donald Trump sued the BBC in December, seeking $10 billion over a Panorama documentary that spliced together two portions of his Jan. 6, 2021 Ellipse speech — separated by nearly an hour — to make it appear he had directly urged supporters to "fight like hell" and storm the Capitol. The president claims the edit defamed him and damaged his brand.

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