Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

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Sen. Daines: Having Dinner With JD Vance Is Enough Oversight On Iran War

Sen. Steve Daines exposed his ignorance on the US Constitution, budgetary matters and Congressional oversight when he told Fox Business he will vote against an upcoming Senate bill to limit Trump's war powers claiming it violated the principles of the Founding Fathers.

The House just passed a war powers bill "by a vote of 214-208 lawmakers in the House passed a war powers resolution to curb the Trump administration’s military action in Iran, ahead of the lower chamber’s August recces."

Trump supporter Stuart Varney asked the Senator from Montana if the Senate should also "exercise some more control over the war?"

Sen. Daines claimed having dinner with JD Vance counted as Congressional oversight and he will vote against any such bill.

His response was inexcusable for a Senator who sits on the powerful Senate Finance Committee.

DAINES: Stewart, we always have the ability to exercise oversight.

Just look at yesterday. You had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Cain, in front of the Appropriations Committee, you've got Secretary Hegseth, you've got Secretary Rubio, who are in routine contact with members of the U.S. Senate, so we're always engaged.

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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

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Trump Is Already Thinking About Starting His Next War

There seems to be no end to the number of people “pro-life” Donald Trump and his minions would love to kill. The latest locale is the West African country of Mali.

The Washington Post got the scoop about the Trump administration’s deliberations over military action targeting an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as JNIM. The Post goes into great detail about the situation there, which does indeed seem to be quite serious. “Mali, a landlocked nation of nearly 25 million, has in recent years been plagued by violence by Islamist militant groups … particularly JNIM,” The Post explained. They “have grown increasingly powerful, turning Mali and its neighbors in the Sahel into the world’s center for terrorism.”

But is this really a threat to the United States? Or is this really an extortion attempt on behalf of Trump’s cronies? “When the White House was asked for comment, an administration official would not disclose whether the president intended to move forward with military strikes but said the United States has been urging governments in North and West Africa “’to purchase U.S. equipment and services to support their war efforts against the terrorists,’” The Post reported.

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Jack Reed Rips Pete Hegseth For Using Biden As An Excuse: 'Gross Negligence'

Pete Hegseth got blistered in the Senate Appropriations Committee today by Sen. Jack Reed and others, who refused to hear his editorializing on Trump's greatness, instead exposing his gross negligence over the war and the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration is demanding another $87.6 billion to restock Pentagon resources following their bombing raids on Iran.

Jack Reed gives a master class on how to calmly and systematically demolish an unqualified MAGA cultist in Trump's cabinet.

Reed started off by asking Whiskey Pete if he was prepared for the possibility that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed during a conflict since the Pentagon had been planning for an event like this for decades.

Hegseth tried to blame President Biden for his screw-ups, but Reed would have none of it.

REED: Were you aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed, and obviously sinking their ships has not affected their ability to effectively close the Strait.

HEGSETH: We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration, so their navy was affected in expeditious ways in the past.

REED: Listen, we're talking about a war you started, not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel as a result of Iranian actions, so your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very, very obvious excuse for what I think is probably, as you described, so often gross negligence.

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

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