Ted Cruz Dodged An Abortion Question Like It Was A Winter Storm

Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to a question about abortion the same way he reacted to a Texas storm that left millions freezing in the dark and more than a hundred literally freezing to death: by running away.

Instead of jetting off to Cancun when he didn't want to do his job, Cruz dodged questions from CNN’s Ed Lavendera with BS.

Asked why there was no mention of abortion in his speech, Cruz sneered, “I understand that's what Democrats want to talk all day long about.”

Sadly, it’s no surprise Cruz doesn’t care about what concerns his Democratic constituents. But he went on to reveal he doesn’t really care about other Texans, either. “The Supreme Court made clear that’s an issue for voters, state by state,” he added.

Since his state has passed one of the most draconian abortion laws, that should make it an issue for him, too. Especially since we know that women have died as a result. ProPublica reported on two pregnant Texas women who died after “doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus.”

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company’s products

In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the company from shipping products as often as it’d like. “All of these models have gotten quite complex,” he wrote in response to a question about why OpenAI’s next AI models were taking so long. […]

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The AI Clouds Race: What’s Behind the Scenes

The fast-growing AI market is not only giving rise to new AI startups but also fostering the emergence of specialist vendors. Competition among cloud providers in the AI space is fierce. Roman will share how Nebius is navigating this race, what is driving the company’s rapid growth, and what it takes to support AI disruptors. […]

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Mike Johnson: Ending Affordable Care Act Is Trump Priority

Speaker Mike Johnson says one of Trump’s top priorities will be to repeal the Affordable Care Act and rip away health care from tens of millions of Americans, “No Obamacare.”

Nothing says good Christian family values like ripping away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans, right?

Blowing up the ACA impacts Americans who aren't on the plan, taking us back to the days when insurance companies could charge more or deny care due to pre-existing conditions. The good old bad old days.

Politics Girl has feelings about Johnson saying the quiet part out loud.

In a bout of misplaced confidence, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson just proudly told us Republicans will target the Affordable Care Act - particularly preexisting condition protections - as one of their first acts in power. This party is a danger to us. pic.twitter.com/T5gNvKAVns

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Building Enterprise AI Apps with Multi-Agent RAG Systems (MARS)

Join SingleStore to explore a live Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application that combines real-time streaming data with vast amounts of point-in-time data, achieving near-zero latency in AI interactions. We’ll discuss how Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems (MARS) can facilitate the development of effective real-time AI applications, utilizing AWS Bedrock and SingleStore. Gain valuable insights into the challenges […]

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How startups can find, and keep, product-market fit in 2024

Every startup knows that they need to find product market fit. But once they do find true resonance between what they are offering and what there is demand for, how should a startup ensure that they do not lose the product-market fit that they have gained? Finding PMF is one thing; maintaining it is another. […]

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Bridgit Mendler on moving from Disney star to founding spacetech startup Northwood

Former Disney Channel star Bridgit Mendler wants to transform one of the least sexy segments of the space industry: ground stations. Founded in 2024, Mendler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Northwood Space, a spacetech startup looking to expand access to space by rethinking shared infrastructure for satellite backhaul. In this fireside chat with TechCrunch […]

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This Doesn't Have To Happen

I so hope the alarms are being raised about the threat of fascism coming to this country. It's real, not imagined. This is the last week before the election, so let's do everything we can to make sure it doesn't. Vote, knock doors, talk to friends and neighbors, get them all out to vote against the orange horror.

This is your cartoon and open thread for Sunday morning. How are you helping to make sure Trump is sent home forever?

- Karoli

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The next Mac mini might be nearly as small as an Apple TV

The Mac mini will be getting an upgrade this week, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The mini is Apple’s desktop computer (really just a small gray box) positioned between the consumer iMac and the company’s professional-grade desktops. The new mini is reportedly getting smaller — nearly the size of an Apple TV set-top box. It […]

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Jake Tapper Trolls GOP Leaders' Feigned Outrage Over Harris Calling Trump A Fascist

CNN's Jake Tapper brought the receipts after House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were crying about meanie Kamala Harris "normalizing violence" with her language about Trump. Tapper can get on my last nerve at times, but this was spot on.

On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) issued a joint statement weighing on Vice President Kamala Harris' characterization of former President Donald Trump as a "fascist." CNN host Jake Tapper was having none of it on his Friday broadcast.

As the Hill reported, both Johnson and McConnell suggested that Harris calling her opponent a fascist could potentially invite more political violence ahead of the November election. The two Congressional Republican leaders said it's important to not "allow this violence to be normalized," referencing the July incident in which a would-be assassin barely missed Trump at a Pennsylvania rally and a September incident in which a man with a rifle was spotted at Trump's Florida golf course.

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This robot showcases ‘exceptional dexterity’ as it loads a dishwasher

NeoDavid has changed a lot in the last 14 years. A new video of the humanoid robot from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics showcases its “exceptional dexterity.” neoDavid’s finger joints can be controlled individually, which allows the robot to be seen loading and unloading a dishwasher as well […]

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Rental car startup Kyte slashes staff and shrinks to two markets in bid for survival

Rental car startup Kyte, which bills itself as the “best alternative to Hertz,” is pulling out of almost all of its major markets in the United States and has cut its workforce roughly in half in a bid to survive after exploring a sale earlier this year. The company is shrinking its operations to focus […]

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Apple will pay security researchers up to $1 million to hack its private AI cloud

Ahead of the debut of Apple’s private AI cloud next week, dubbed Private Cloud Compute, the technology giant says it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of its private AI cloud. In a post on Apple’s security blog, the company said it would pay up […]

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Tesla’s $25,000 EV flip-flop, explained

The idea of a $25,000 Tesla has persisted for years — in part, perhaps, because CEO Elon Musk said he was “very confident” the company could do it at an event in 2020. But on Wednesday night, during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, Musk said the idea of a $25,000 car with a steering wheel and […]

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Brian Kilmeade Goes There: Defends Trump's Loving Nazi Generals

Fox and Friends co-host Brian came up with a weak sauce defense of Trump's love of Nazi generals by claiming it was US generals who were the deep state against him during his time in office.

The Fox and Friends co-host used a book by Lt. Gen. McMaster's, which was highly critical of Trump and who lasted about a year in the White House as his NSA.

Listen to this dribble.

KILMEADE: McMaster's book, who is critical of President Trump in some of it and not in others, he talks about how Mattis and Kelly didn't like the president, and they didn't think he deserved the job, or they didn't think he was worthy of the job, and they went out of his way to make sure a lot of the things they asked him to do that they didn't like never got done. McMaster would be frustrated, because he couldn't get their attention, and he would say, it's not your job to rein in the president. It's your job to do what the president wants.

Kilmeade's words are at odds with what McMaster said in his book. The former NSA wrote that Trump's White House was full of sycophants and described "meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president by saying stuff like, “Your instincts are always right” or, “No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.”

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OF COURSE: Trump's Project 2025 Allies Plan To Steal Election

ABC News reported the GOP candidate again cast doubt on the election results this week by suggesting he can't lose if it's a fair election. But in 2024, Donald Trump is getting help to steal the election. Trump's Project 2025 allies are planning to help him "Stop the Steal" in 2024.

New research from Media Matters shows Project 2025 partners are laying the groundwork to steal the election. According to Media Matters:

The Heritage Foundation itself is at the center of many of these efforts; The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer identified the conservative think tank as one of the election denial movement’s “leaders” following the 2020 election. Heritage has extensive connections to election denial groups through both direct collaboration on voter suppression policies and the Project 2025 advisory board, which includes more than 110 conservative groups.

Plans to Steal the 2024 Election Are Nightmare Fuel

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Beleaguered startup Humane drops AI Pin price by $200

Humane on Wednesday announced a $200 price cut to its flagship product, the AI Pin. The Bay Area startup, founded by two former Apple executives, has reportedly struggled to sell the product, which launched in April for $700. In a message sent to its email list, Humane highlights its return policy in the new pitch. […]

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Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago

Furno’s micro-kilns promise to reduce pollution and eliminate transportation costs.

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Tarlov Flattens Sean Duffy's 'Trump Is Normalcy' Comment

On Fox News, host Sandra Smith declared that calling Trump a fascist is equal to being a racist or an actual 'enemy from within.'

I guess calling Kamala Harris a Marxist, communist anti-American is perfectly fine.

Jessica Tarlov, who expertly promotes left-wing values while fighting off the usual barrage of outrageous Trump propaganda on Fox, dispatched that notion quickly.

Fox News contributor Sean Duffy tried to claim that the Democratic party is running the country like power-hungry madmen.

Duffy has to gaslight Fox viewers and proclaim that every indictment, felony, and impeachment of demented Donald was a hoax.

A shocked Tarlov appropriately responded with a beatdown.

DUFFY: So Democrats have shattered all the norms. Again, a half-a-billion dollar lawsuit and settlement or judgment in New York City against Trump, multiple cases against him criminally and civilly, the two impeachments, and the Russia collusion hoax.

But when you're talking about what's happened in the government, the fact that you had, I know the way the House works, you have Republicans put half, you know, the committee on, Democrats put the other half, they did this committee on Russia collusion and only put, only allowed Nancy Pelosi to put members on the committee.

TARLOV: That's not true.

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On Daily Show, Tim Walz Skewers The Wall Street Journal

Minnesota Governor and Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz explained to John Stewart why he could address issues affecting the working class in a way Trump and his wealthy elitist friends can't.

The WSJ explains the vast economic difference between Gov. Walz and JD Vance: Tim Walz’s and JD Vance’s Personal Finances Couldn’t Be More Different, and Walz seized on it while on The Daily Show.

Walz also showed a good sense of humor, which JD Vance clearly lacks.

WALZ: I think I'm still doing it like I said this that I have a skill set that I know it right I said one thing is is I'm I told people I said I'm not that great a debater I was a schoolteacher, so I'm trained to answer questions.

You know that's not a good debating skill to answer.

[Laughter]

What I'm most proud of is I'd love this I think it's Wall Street Journal did, they did the financial disclosures, and they said, Tim Walz might be the poorest person to ever run for Vice President.

But surprisingly teachers, nurses, firefighters, and stuff, it does give me an in with people. It gives me an in to talk to hi them about this. Why do you think I'm fighting for these policies for?

Defined benefit pension plans, the ability to form a union, to make it easier to be in a union. Because that's where it comes from.

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President Obama Took Trump's Mental Decline To The Woodshed

President Barack Obama hosted a rally in Las Vegas Saturday night, where he pilloried Diminished Donald Trump's failing mental abilities and bizarre rallies.

KTNV reports:

On the first day of early voting in the valley, former President Barack Obama led the battle cry in the battleground state of Nevada.

The former president rallied hundreds of supporters for Vice President Kamala Harris at Cheyenne High School in North Las Vegas Saturday night.

While President Obama is sharp and precise with his words and actions, Trump talks about Arnold Palmer's junk that he's jealous of.

OBAMA: Have you seen him lately?

I mean he is out there.

He's given these two and a half hour speeches — Just just a word salad.

You don't know what he's saying, you know at any given moment. He held a town hall meeting where now the point of a town hall meeting I've had like maybe a thousand of them.

The point is you meet with people and you answer their questions. He just stopped.

He's all I don't feel like taking questions anymore and then we're just good.

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Women in AI: Marissa Hummon thinks AI will help make the power grid greener

This is part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved time in the spotlight.

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Fox News Host Fact Checks Trump To His Face On Springfield Haitians

Fox News host Howard Kurtz argued with former President Donald Trump over "debunked" claims that Haitians were eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.

During an interview that aired on Sunday, Kurtz asked Trump why he would not admit that the assertion about Haitians was not true.

"But when you said, you know, it's gone viral, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats," Kurtz noted. "But why not say now, well, look, that turned out not to be true."

"I don't know if it's true or not true," Trump replied.

"You don't know if it's true or not true," Kurtz pressed. "It's been debunked by the officials."

"What about the goose? The geese?" Trump asked. "They're all missing. It was one guy with two geese."

"I have no idea. I said something. The big problem is that you can't put 30,000 people into a 50,000-person town or city and expect this city to even survive or do well," he continued. "What they've done to Springfield, Ohio, is very, very unfair. And I mean, there are a lot of stories."

"There are a lot of other stories that I've heard that are horrible stories... Don't don't, you know, blame me."

"Well, I think it's been debunked by local officials," Kurtz said.

"I don't think it's been debunked at all," Trump griped. "I think nobody talks about it except you."

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DJI sues Department of Defense over listing as a Chinese military company

Drone-maker DJI filed a lawsuit Friday against the US Department of Defense over its inclusion on a DoD list of “Chinese military companies.” A DJI spokesperson said the company filed the suit after “attempting to engage with the DoD for more than sixteen months” and deciding “it had no alternative other than to seek relief […]

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What we know about the layoffs at Meta

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into the recent layoffs at Meta; the fallout from the battle between WordPress and WP Engine; and whether Cybertrucks are simply too big to exist in Europe. Let’s get into it. Multiple teams at Meta were hit by layoffs this week. The company confirmed the […]

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I just spent my first week ever with an EV, the Chevy Equinox — here’s what it was like

The funnest car I ever drove was the original Tesla Roadster. This was in 2011, back when Elon Musk’s EV company was courting press instead of denigrating us, and they offered me a test drive. I took the car up I-280 — a beautiful, mostly deserted highway with perfectly banked curves that seemed designed for Silicon […]

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Investors bet on the power of light, diamonds in the trash, and more

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week brought us some exciting fundraising news from around the world, and even some exits. But if you are looking for tech IPOs, you will have […]

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Price Manipulation At Polymarket Has Trump's Odds Soaring

The next time some asshole says something stupid about betting markets and politics, like "More accurate than polls, because real money is on the line" it's worth reminding them that as with any market prices can be manipulated. And that's apparently the case with Peter Thiel's Polymarket recently. Just four accounts have flooded the market with $30mil in bets recently, distorting or inflating Trump's chances against Kamala Harris.

Unlike with stock exchanges, there are no safeguards against price manipulation. It's all buyer beware, wild west stuff.

Crypto Bros getting played again.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls. But in one popular betting market, the odds have skewed heavily in Trump’s favor, raising questions about a recent flurry of wagers and who is behind them.

Over the past two weeks, the chances of a Trump victory in the November election have surged on Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market. Its bettors were giving Trump a 62% chance of winning on Thursday, while Harris’s chances were 38%. The candidates were in a dead heat at the start of October.

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All mobile phones must be hearing aid compatible under new FCC rules

The FCC Thursday issued rules requiring that all mobile phones — including smartphones — sold in the U.S. be compatible with hearing aids. The news comes two years after the FDA made hearing aids available to all Americans without a prescription. The FCC has not yet issued a specific timeline for compliance, only noting that […]

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Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’

This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad access” and “collaboration,” OpenAI said that it would only use its patents in a way that supports innovation. “We pledge to only use our patents defensively, so long as a […]

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Watters: Harris Buying Black Vote With 'Welfare Checks' And 'A Blunt'

Fox News's racist assclown Jesse Watters has been getting desperate as his hero's mental decline gets more and more apparent during rallies and interviews.

Media Matters reports that Watters called it "welfare checks."

'Black men have been asking, "How are you going to make my life better? Because my life was better under Trump,"' he said. "So Kamala, after four years of doing nothing, just came out with a plan for Black men: legalize weed and $20,000 welfare checks."

"That's right. Kamala wants to win the Black vote with free money and drugs," he continued. "But protecting Black jobs is offensive? Even Black voters are a little suspicious."

"Kamala's been power for four years," Watters said. "Before that, she was a senator, never proposed this before. And three weeks before the election, after struggling with the Black vote, here is a check for 20 grand and a blunt."

"Did Kamala even come up with this pitch? Or did her white handler sit around thinking, "Black people love handouts and getting high," he added. "Let's give this a shot."

The $20,000 Watters mentioned in the segment above includes a proposal to give Black entrepreneurs forgivable loans of up to $20,000. That sounds good to me! I like the idea of everyone getting a fair shake while trying to rebuild the middle class, which Republicans have decimated.

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Fisker owners get help with recall repairs as court approves liquidation plan

Fisker’s plan to liquidate its assets has been accepted by the bankruptcy court in Delaware. And with it, the issue of who should pay for labor costs associated with a pair of recalls on the bankrupt EV startup’s SUVs is finally settled. Fisker has also reached a deal with American Lease, the buyer of its […]

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X rival Mastodon has started selling toys

If you like open-source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billionaires, you can now support that cause…by buying toys. On Tuesday, Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, began selling its own merchandise in the form of cute, plushie mastodons – the proto-elephants with long tusks that […]

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Threads will start showing others when you’re online by default

Meta’s X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that will let you see when someone on the social network is online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the feature on Tuesday in a Threads post, noting that it’s meant to act as “a way to help you find others to engage with […]

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GOP "Leaks" Two Conflicting Sets Of Senate Polls; Is The Better One Just For Trump?

On Sunday, a leaked internal memo from the top GOP super PAC painted a grim picture for their Senate prospects. This morning, bright and early, another leaked memo (i.e., damage control) appeared from the NRSC that mostly contradicted their previous numbers and painted a far rosier picture for the Senate prospects.

So why does any of this matter? Well, for donors, it matters where to put their money, which candidates are realistic bets, and which are longshots. More importantly, though, it also feeds the narrative they want to set. The Fox News report above uses the much rosier numbers for their forecast, when most objective forecasters have a gain of one seat, (as well as West Virginia), for a 51-49 Senate, not a 51-47 Senate with a couple of toss-ups.

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The top GOP super PAC charged with flipping the Senate has found that most of its candidates are trailing their Democratic opponents, according to an internal polling memo obtained by POLITICO.

The new round of October polling from the Senate Leadership Fund shows all but one Republican candidate running behind Donald Trump in battleground states, a pattern that could sharply limit their ability to build a sizable majority unless they can force a change in the election's final weeks.

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Blue America CONTEST: Barenaked Ladies Democracy Summer 2024

Blue America has teamed up with Jamie Raskin’s office to give away a rare, collectible, mint-condition, RIAA-certified Barenaked Ladies gold record award for Born On A Pirate Ship. We’ll tell you how to win it in a moment. Or, if you're in a rush... just go here.

First they want to tell you a little something about Jamie Raskin’s celebrated Democracy Summer project, which this year trained and deployed more than 1,000 high school and college students to participate as Democracy Summer Fellows in critical Democratic campaigns in 44 states across America.

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Former Product Hunt CEO Josh Buckley is looking to raise a fourth $250M fund

Josh Buckley, the former CEO of Product Hunt, is aiming to raise a fourth $250 million fund for his venture capital firm, Buckley Ventures, according to a regulatory filing. Buckley’s ambitions for this fund are significantly lower than for his previous one. He sought to raise a $500 million third fund in February, 2022, right […]

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Retired Gen. Milley Warns: Trump Is A 'Total Fascist'

We've got the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying Trump "is now the most dangerous person to this country,” and most of the American media just blows it off.

Retired Gen. Mark Milley Calls Trump ‘A Total Fascist’:

Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, now says Trump is a “total fascist” and “fascist to the core,” according to a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward, the famed Watergate journalist.

“He is the most dangerous person ever,” Milley told Woodward for his book “War,” according to The Guardian. “I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

“A fascist to the core,” Milley said.

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Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi is here — and it could cost less than $30K

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re taking a closer look at Tesla’s Cybercab and Robovan reveals, the “complete disarray” at Fisker HQ, and a horrifying side effect of living in our modern world: AI summaries of your breakup texts. Let’s do this. Tesla finally revealed its Cybercab robotaxi. Unveiled at the company’s […]

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Hillary Clinton Warns Harris: Be Prepared For An October Surprise

Hillary Clinton sounded upbeat about Kamala Harris’ chances of accomplishing what Clinton had hoped to do: becoming the first woman president. But she also had some advice for Harris.

CLINTON: I believe strongly that she has to be prepared for any last-minute October surprises that come from the Trump campaign, from their Russian support system that has now been called out numerous times by our own government, that they once again are trying to help Trump get elected.

Fortunately, Clinton said she has talked to Harris frequently and believes the vice president is “much more aware than we were back in 2016” about how important it is to combat “the kind of vicious, viral attacks and claims” that Trump and his allies spread on social media.

“She doesn't have a Jim Comey, thankfully, waiting in the wings, you know, a knee-capper,” Clinton continued, but Trump’s “Big Lie machine” plus artificial intelligence makes the underhanded tactics “much more sophisticated.”

“So, that's what I think she has to be really prepared for,” Clinton added. “And I believe her campaign is.”

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Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital

Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. Based on the filing alone, Khosla’s stake in the ChatGPT maker appears to be at least 6% of the $6.6 billion round the company closed last week. But that doesn’t mean Khosla has put substantial or any capital into the round. The […]

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New rounds will help startups challenge well-funded rivals

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. It was once again the private market that generated the most funding-related news in the startup world this week, both for companies and for funds. But it […]

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Fox News' Gutfeld: Only People Amplifying 'Crackpot' Greene Are Democrats

After Joe Biden had finally had enough and called out the dangerous lies being spread by MAGA Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump and others, the right-wing pundits on Fox's The Five were in full damage control mode this Wednesday.

After Dana Perino pretended not to know where the lie about the $750 originated, her cohorts did their best to try to minimize the damage being done by these lies, and once again, the only push-back came from the lone Democrat on the panel, Jessica Tarlov, and even she flubbed where the $750 lie originated. It wasn't Lara Trump. She was just repeating what Donald Trump had already said to his cult.

After Jeanine Pirro attempted to credit Elon Musk for getting the first Starlink satellites set up in North Carolina, which was fact checked by Tarlov (it was the government that brought the first ones in, not Musk), Tarlov proceeded to take the others to task for their criticism of Biden.

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Amazon team in charge of Just Walk Out loses three execs, gains one

Three Amazon executives in charge of developing new technologies for checking out of physical stores – including Just Walk Out, Dash Carts, and Amazon One – are leaving or have left the division, TechCrunch has learned. In addition, a former high-ranking advertising executive at Amazon, Colleen Aubrey, was recently put in charge of Just Walk […]

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FTX’s Ryan Salame posts jokes on LinkedIn as he heads to prison

After the criminal implosion of the crypto exchange FTX, many of the company’s executives have been found guilty on various counts of fraud or conspiracy to commit such acts. Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, is starting his seven-and-a-half-year fraud sentence today, but not before posting an all-time absurd LinkedIn post (and […]

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SpaceX alums are working to raise a hefty $550M first deep tech fund

Interlagos, the venture capital firm started by former senior SpaceX leaders, is looking to raise $550 million for its first venture fund, according to regulatory filings and a confidential deck sent to prospective LPs and viewed by TechCrunch.  The existence of the firm was first reported by TechCrunch in April, but almost nothing has been […]

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Why Project 2025 Will Leave Hurricane Victims Stranded

As Hurricane Milton heads towards the West Florida Coast, imagine if hurricane victims could not count on the federal government for aid. If Trump's Project 2025 is implemented, this nightmare becomes a reality. Hurricane Milton is predicted to be a Category Five storm, a once in 100 year hurricane. But if Trump is elected, his Project 2025 will make natural disasters even more of a nightmare.

Trump's Project 2025 Wants to Cut Disaster Assistance

Here are a few ways Trump's Project 2025 will make natural disasters worse.

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 674-5: “This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.”

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Adam Schiff Perfectly Leaves Trumpy Opponent 'Speechless' During Debate

California Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey are vying for the late Diane Feinstein's Senate seat. Garvey, a Trumper with no political experience, was left "speechless" at one point in the debate. Schiff holds a commanding lead in the polls, and this was Garvey's only opportunity to debate his Democratic opponent.

"Mr. Garvey likes that particular attack because that's what Trump likes to say," Schiff said. "It's his way of telling MAGA viewers out there, hey, I'm one of you. That's not what Californians are looking for, Mr. Garvey."

"Mr. Garvey, I stood up to a corrupt president, and yes, I investigated him, I impeached him, I led the trial in the Senate, and when he incited a violent attack on the Capitol, and I was there that day, Mr. Garvey, I was there on January 6th, as those insurrections were breaking down the doors and windows," he continued.

"The fact that you think that's perfectly okay, that you still want to support the guy who incited that violent attack, that tells me that you would never take your oath of office seriously as I do," Schiff added.

Garvey had 30 seconds to respond but came up with nothing.

"I've left him speechless," Schiff remarked.

Adam Schiff quite literally destroyed him. Beautiful to watch. https://t.co/ismMN14FWj

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On TikTok, pop culture prevails over news and politics

TikTok is growing fast as a destination for news, but news and politics accounts make up less than one percent of accounts followed by U.S. adults, the Pew Research Center says. Around half of all TikTok accounts followed by U.S. adults are influencers and creators, the study shows. Plus, content related to news and politics […]

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AI mortgage startup LoanSnap loses license to operate in Connecticut

The revocation comes after TechCrunch's exclusive reporting on how LoanSnap was inundated with lawsuits.

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US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals

A federal judge has ordered Google to open up its app store to rivals and give Android users more choice when it comes to downloading apps.  Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in the Epic and Google saga on Monday, detailing how Google has to change how it operates Google Play. According to the […]

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The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

China reportedly hacked the wiretap systems required by U.S. internet providers under a 1994 U.S. wiretapping law.

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'Not True

Donald J. Trump has been disseminating lies in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which devastated parts of the Southwest. The former President's nepobaby Lara Trump is just as bad. Meanwhile, Trump's lies are spreading through his MAGA base with no regard for those suffering in multiple states. On Sunday, CNN's Dana Bash confronted Lara about that on CNN's State of the Union.

"I want to ask you about something that the former president said last night on that stage, specifically about Hurricane Helene in your home state of North Carolina," Bash said. "He said that FEMA is only offering $750 to Americans who have had their homes destroyed."

"That's not true," Bash pointed out. "He's also echoing conspiracy theorists online who falsely claim that the administration is redirecting disaster money for undocumented immigrants."

"That's also not true," she said. Why is he spreading misinformation in a crisis like that? And does that concern you about your fellow North Carolinians and how and whether they could actually get help?"

Lara, of course, dodged the question but said she's "incredibly concerned" about North Carolina.

"I hear every day from people on the ground there, and they are desperate for help," she said. "It is a dire situation there. I actually think we don't even know the extent yet of truly how bad it is there."

But whatabout the border?

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Local Springfield, OH Woman Wins The Internet This Week

Springfield, OH resident Amanda Richardson pulled the perfect reverse-Karen during the Springfield City Commission Meeting last week.

I know this clip is a little old, since it's from September 24th, but it's just now going viral on line, and it deserves to be after this woman did such a fantastic job of making a mockery of what Trump and Vance have done basically terrorizing her town with their lies.

Here are Richardson's remarks during the meeting where she gave all of these bigots their dues.

RICHARDSON: My name is Amanda Richardson. I was born in Springfield and I've lived here most of my life. And I just want to say that I'm so angry about the changes in Springfield of recent. I can't believe these Haitian immigrants would come here and fill jobs that local Springfield residents would not or could not do.

They're working hard, including working overtime and now they've raised the average city wage for both Springfield and Clark County. They're paying income tax to the city that the city desperately needs for services like police and fire.

They're making some of the local losers look bad by their example. It's unbelievable.

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Open Thread: Mets Vs. Phillies, Game One

Game 1 of Phillies-Mets is scheduled to begin at 4:08 p.m. Eastern on Fox.

I gotta admit, I'm worried. On paper, you'd expect the Phillies to win this series, but lately the Mets have caught lightning in a bottle. So we'll see. This is the first time ever the Phillies and the Mets have met in the postseason.

While I was at physical therapy yesterday, the guy on the exercise bike next to mine explained his routine for his own private tailgate party. He goes to his basement decked out in full Phillies regalia about four hours before the game, and starts drinking Miller Lite. (He says he needs to be mildly drunk in case the Phils start to collapse.) Then he starts praying to the Buddha statue next to the TV to reach a state of no expectations.

I have no routine, except for switching to Netflix when it feels like Phils are starting to circle the drain and remembering what my dad taught me early on: "Remember, Suze, they could still lose." And he had his unused 1964 World Series tickets to prove it.

How about you? What's your sports ritual? Pizza, cheesesteak, or hoagie?

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OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street. Let’s get into it. OpenAI closed the largest VC round of all time this week. The startup […]

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Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six companies […]

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GOP Lawmaker Tells Native American To Go Back Where She Came From

During a bipartisan "meet your candidate" event, an Idaho state senator, Dan Foreman, had a complete meltdown which culminated with him screaming at a Native American Democrat to go back where she came from:

When asked if discrimination existed in Idaho, conservative Sen. Dan Foreman said no.

In a statement released Wednesday, Democratic candidate for House Seat A and member of the Nez Perce tribe Trish Carter-Goodheart said she pushed back on that idea when it was her turn to speak, pointing to her own experience and the history of white supremacy groups in Northern Idaho.

“[J]ust because someone hasn’t personally experienced discrimination, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Racism and discrimination are real issues here in Idaho, as anyone familiar with our state’s history knows,” the statement read. “I highlighted our weak hate crime laws and mentioned the presence of the Aryan Nations in northern Idaho as undeniable evidence of this reality.”

Foreman stood up and angrily interjected, using an expletive to criticize what he cast as the liberal bent of the response, according to the release and people present at the forum.

Carter-Goodheart said he then told her she should go back to where she came from, and heatedly stormed off. One event organizer and two other panelists confirmed Carter-Goodheart’s account, adding Foreman appeared very agitated.

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OpenAI secured more billions, but there’s still capital left for other startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week once again brought us AI funding news, as well as some warnings: Some categories and stages are showing signs of overheating. Luckily, we also spotted […]

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The 13 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech

A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector.

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Jan 6 Insurrectionist Shot To Death On Her Doorstep

Tamara Towers Parry's downward spiral began well before January 6, 2021, but losing her medical license after she participated in the Capitol riot could not have helped her mental state. Towers Parry had recently lost her home and was in the midst of eviction proceedings when the shooting on her front doorstep occurred.

While these sad broken people destroyed their lives for Trump, the instigator of the January 6 madness remains free at large, suffering no consequences for his actions. And who knows, in a few weeks, Donald Trump might even win the presidency again.

Source: Seattle Times

A former Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday.

Members of Towers Parry’s family did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.

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Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze

We recently asked Meta if it trains AI on photos and videos that users take on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company originally didn’t have much to say. Since then, Meta has offered TechCrunch a bit more color. In short, any image you share with Meta AI can be used to train its AI. […]

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OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of businesses are looking for alternatives, and with that, the OpenStack project for managing cloud infrastructure (and one of the world’s largest open source […]

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild

In San Francisco’s Mission district, good music is all around you. That’s why, high up on a street pole at an undisclosed location in the Mission, Riley Walz installed a solar-powered box containing an old Android phone running the song identifying service, Shazam, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The so called “Bop […]

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