It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

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Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?

Meta faces thousands more court cases while Congress has proposed numerous bills addressing children’s online safety, some heavily criticized.

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As more Americans adopt AI tools, fewer say they can trust the results

AI adoption is rising in the U.S., but trust remains low, with most Americans concerned about transparency, regulation, and the technology’s broader societal impact, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

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Ukraine Rebukes German Arms ManufacturerThis Week: We're Relitigating 1868, Because Apparently That'nulls Crack About Their Drones

Just for context, the 14th Amendment includes,

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

The W$J reports that our illegitimate and failed SCOTUS is going to hear the birthright citizenship case this week, and that Vulgarmort is already planning on how to spin defeat (assuming a fact not in evidence):

“The case, which will be argued Wednesday, tests Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of unlawful immigrants and temporary visitors. He has gotten trounced in the lower courts, and several conservative Supreme Court justices have already hinted, through little-noticed cues, that they may be skeptical, too.”

“A ruling against the president would further undercut Trump’s stated desire for a court that rubber-stamps his agenda. In the six weeks since the tariff decision, he has repeatedly disparaged the patriotism and loyalty of the justices who ruled against him.”

“’They sicken me, because they’re bad for our country,’ Trump said last week.”

“He also predicted on social media that the court “will find a way to come to the wrong conclusion” on birthright citizenship—an outcome, he said, that other nations would celebrate.”

So he’s prepping the mouthbreathers to blame THEM and not HIM.

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What we’re looking for in Startup Battlefield 2026 and how to put your best application forward

Here's what we're looking for in your Startup Battlefield 200 application and how to make sure your application reflects it.

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Trump Wants To Destroy Another Historic Part Of The White House

Marie Antoinette Trump seems hellbent on turning the People’s House into some gaudy monument to his narcissism.

Not content with destroying the entire East Wing of the White House for the sake of his gold-plated ballroom or remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in his own garish image, Trump has now set his sights on wrecking the Treaty Room.

The Treaty Room is “one of the most historic rooms in the White House,” according to The New York Times. “Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley used it as a Cabinet room, and it was where the Spanish-American War peace protocol of 1898, and the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, were signed.” Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden have also made major wartime addresses from the room.

Trump thinks it should be turned into a guest bedroom. No doubt it will have all the vulgar details he is known for.

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‘Project Hail Mary’ becomes Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit

Amazon’s bet on “Project Hail Mary” has paid off handsomely.

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Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

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Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

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Trump Lives To Inflict Pain On Student Loan Borrowers

Over 7 million student loan borrowers enrolled in a Biden-era repayment scheme have been ordered to pick a new plan or risk being automatically placed on one vastly more expensive -- unless a higher court reinstates it.

Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will begin receiving notices about switching to other ways to repay starting Friday, according to the Department of Education. The Trump administration has long targeted SAVE, which was struck down by a federal court last week. (It is expected to be appealed.)

Loan servicers will now begin issuing notices giving borrowers 90 days to select a new repayment plan, department officials said. They will then resume making payments as soon as this summer.

Around half of those on the SAVE plan had incomes low enough to qualify for its zero-dollar monthly payment. The standard plan orders them to pay fixed payments over 10 years, leading to huge increases.

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Administration Asshats Cooked Up Psy-Op 'Gay Ayatollah' Story

The brilliant idea dreamed up by administration frat boys was to plant a public narrative about classified information strongly indicating that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is gay.

But the idea was fabricated and pushed behind the scenes by a cohort of Trump advisers, US government personnel, and MAGA associates, two people with knowledge of the matter and another two sources briefed on it told Zeteo reporters.

They've been laughing about it since. (You know, dick jokes.) “We wanted to mindfuck [the Iranians] with gay shit,” one of the sources says. Another source – a Trump administration official familiar with how this all went down – adds that one of their MAGA group chats is titled, simply: “gayatollah.”

By late Thursday night, the White House had not responded to our request for comment. However, not long after we emailed our comment request, Trump suddenly appeared on TV blabbing about the topic.

The president was asked by Fox’s Jesse Watters if the CIA had told him that the new supreme leader is gay. “Well, they did say that, but I don’t know if it was only them,” Trump replied. “I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him off to a bad start in that particular country.”

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Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have increased tenfold in less than two years.

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Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again

The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.

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Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.

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Zuck Up: Meta Slapped With $375 Million Bill For Failing Kids

Mark Zuckerberg's behemoth social media company, which houses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, lost BIG in New Mexico court today. The lawsuit is the first of its kind - a state sued and won against a major tech company for the harm its platform caused young people.

The jury ordered Meta to pay the maximum penalty - $5,000 per violation - which totaled $375 million in civil penalties. Meta was specifically found liable for misleading consumers about the safety of their platform, which included child sexual exploitation.

Following the verdict, New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez put out a statement:

"The jury’s verdict is a historic victory for every child and family who has paid the price for Meta’s choice to put profits over kids’ safety. Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about what they knew. Today the jury joined families, educators, and child safety experts in saying enough is enough.”

The lawsuit followed a massive investigation by the Guardian, published in April 2023, that showed how Facebook and Instagram were being exploited for child sex trafficking.

Meta plans to appeal and put out a statement saying:

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Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child

The First Lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.

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Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history

Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.

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Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more

Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.

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Bernie Sanders’ AI ‘gotcha’ video flops, but the memes are great

Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he's tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry's secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become.

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Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today

A notice on the popular paywall-bypass website Archive.today said that access is blocked "by decision of [Russian] public authorities."

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Tom Homan Announces A Concept Of A Plan For ICE To Handle Airport Security

Border Czar Tom Homan made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, and was asked about Trump's threat to send his ICE thugs to airports across the country to supposedly help TSA agents with the long security lines caused by TSA staffing shortages following a partial government shutdown.

Trump announced those agents were going to deploy this Monday, although there's no confirmation as to which airports they would be deployed at. When Dana Bash tried to pin Homan down on just how exactly any of this was going to work, Homan was short on specifics and had to admit that the ICE agents are not trained to handle most of the work TSA agents do, and they would not be operating any X-ray equipment.

BASH: President Trump posted on TRUTH Social -- quote -- "If the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular, our airports, be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports, where they will do security like no one has ever seen before."

Now, in a subsequent post, he said that he instructed ICE agents to be ready by Monday. And now the president is saying that you, sir, are going to be in charge. How is that going to work? Are ICE agents going to move into American airports starting tomorrow, Monday?

HOMAN: Yes.

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The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future

After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet.

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Do you want to build a robot snowman?

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

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C&L's Late Nite Music Club: Mozart: The Magic Flute – Queen Of The Night

When I first heard this aria, it knocked me down.

ClassicFM: "Known in German as ‘Der Hölle Rache’, this is an utterly stunning aria of vocal power and virtuosity from Mozart’s late opera The Magic Flute. It’s written for dramatic coloratura soprano and demands huge range and vocal might, as well as colour and agility. Listen out for vicious long runs and famous staccato notes up to a top F as the mother of the opera’s heroine, Pamina, vents her considerable rage."

Soprano Diana Damrau rips her way through this monumental work.

This was a 2025 performance from the Royal Ballet and Opera.

Open thread.

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Judge Rules Pentagon Cannot Block The NYT Anymore

Pete Kegseth is going to need an extra shot of tequila tonight to soothe his hurt fee fees after losing a big court case today regarding press access to the Pentagon. Here is what happened: In October 2025, Hegseth attempted to force news organizations to sign some sort of document related to their reporting, effectively limiting what they could say, even if the information was unclassified. That was a huge departure from previous administrations.

The policy led to dozens of journalists being effectively shut out of the Pentagon because they refused to sign the insane policy. Included in the exodus were the Washington Post and the New York Times. In their place, dozens of right wing and internet personalities signed and were granted journalist passes. Utter insanity.

Well, the New York Times and one of its reporters, Julian Barnes, SUED. And they won! A federal judge in DC on Friday struck down the Department of Defenses new policy, deeming it unconstitutional.

The judge referenced the war in Iran, stating that it is “more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing.”

The DOJ had no comment, but Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell posted on twitter that they plan to appeal.

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It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.

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Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

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Pinterest CEO calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16

Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.

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Idiot GOP Rep: Iran Should Fork Out $200 Billion To Pay For Trump's War

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) made an appearance on this Thursday's The Source with Kaitlan Collins on CNN, and was asked by Collins about the Pentagon’s emerging plan to seek $200 billion in additional military spending to pay for Trump and Bibi's Iran war, and Perry came up with this doozy for how to fund it: Have the Iranians pay for the US to wage war against them.

COLLINS: Obviously you are a lawmaker. What's your initial reaction to the Pentagon seeking $200 billion for this war? Is that something you'd vote yes on?

PERRY: Well, that's the beginning of the... that's the offer on the table, right? We... all of Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, are going to want to see the granular details of what that involves.

Remember, the administration also asked for $1.5 trillion in military spending to rearm, refit, retool the production lines and so on and so forth. Is this part of that or is that separate? So we've got a long way to go. That's the initial offer on the table, but we have questions that are reasonable that we will get answered. And, you know, we're going to have a say in this thing. So we're going to work it out.

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Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

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PeeWee Goebbels: Trump Is The Most Brilliant Military Strategist Ever!

Trump's minion was back at it again, trying to put some lipstick on this giant pig his idiot boss has inflicted all of us in the United States and the rest of the world, for that matter, with his attack on Iran.

Miller made an appearance on Fox's The Ingraham Angle. After first pushing back against Ingraham, asking why securing the Strait of Hormuz was taking so long, given the progress Miller and others keep claiming is happening, Miller insisted that the operation has moved remarkably fast compared to historical norms.

After showing a clip of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stating that allies universally agree the Strait of Hormuz must reopen, and that NATO members are actively coordinating on how to achieve that, Ingraham tried to pin Miller down on which members those were, since none have said publicly that they'd help.

Miller then launched into another one of his diatribes, insisting that this has been one of the greatest military victories EVER!!! and pretending Trump is some genius military strategist.

INGRAHAM: Obviously, that's Rutte. Have any NATO members told you that they're going to help? Because so far, France, Germany, UK have been adamant that this is not their problem.

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Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

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Three-Time 'Idiot' Trump Voter Now Thinks He's A 'Pile Of Sh*t'

On Tuesday, NBC's Meet the Press NOW ran a segment on reactions to increasing fuel costs, during which political reporter Jonathan Allen interviewed Amanda Robbins, a Pennsylvania local, at a Millersburg gas station, and let's just say that the three-time Trump voter is no longer pleased with how things are going with Donald J. Trump at the helm.

Are Trump supporters coming out of the fog? Signs point to yes, but there is still a good faction of his base that seems incapable of letting go of their orange pissdaddy, who, for some strange reason, has a hold on his cult-like following.

"Let's take a listen to one more woman whom we spoke with," Allen said. "If you could say something to President Trump and he was going to hear you right now, what would it be?"

"You're a worthless pile of shit," she said.

"And you voted for him how many times?" Allen asked.

"Three times," Ms. Robbins replied. "That was my bad. Apparently, I'm an idiot."

Well, yeah, she has a point. She was repeatedly warned. As for the three others Allen interviewed, they're sticking by their guy. The other Trump supporters Allen interviewed expressed a willingness to absorb higher pump prices, citing either their backing of the war effort or their confidence in Trump as their reasons.

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Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate

Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on Github. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

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Kagi brings its ‘small web’ of a human-only internet to mobile devices

Kagi's "Small Web" offers a handpicked collection of more than 30,000 non-commercial, human-authored websites, including personal blogs, webcomics, and independent videos.

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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming

Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 uses generative AI and structured graphics data to make video games more realistic. CEO Jensen Huang says the approach could eventually spread to other industries.

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Trump Lashes Out At Reporter For Asking About Disgusting Fundraising Email

Trump was none too happy with a reporter from ABC for daring to ask him about the disgusting fundraising email his PAC sent out, raising money off of the dead troops who were killed in Kuwait.

As we already discussed here, the email used an image from the dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, and it promised access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”

NEW: A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”… pic.twitter.com/D2CEYk4j4h

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Here's the exchange from this Sunday aboard Air Force One, where Trump took some questions from reporters. What a nasty piece of work this nutjob is.

REPORTER: Your PAC sent out a fundraising email trying to make money off the dignified transfer. Do you think this is appropriate?

TRUMP: Well, I was at the transfer.

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Ron Johnson: Blame The Democrats If We Can't Kill Democracy!

Just how desperate are the Republicans to pass the SAVE Act? Well, Ron Johnson is willing to blame the Democrats for saving democracy if it doesn't get passed! He said as much to Eric Bolling on his show on Real Russian Voice, er, Real American Voice:

ROJO: The first point is if we can't pass the Save America Act, blame the Democrats. They're the ones that refuse to, you know, agree to vote for any controls over our election process to make sure that your legitimate vote is not canceled out by fraudulent act. That is Democrats, because that kind of control, the Save America Act, it's existential to their plan of being a one-party nation. So it's the Democrats' fault.

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US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions."

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Trump Says It's No Biggie That Putin Is Helping Iran

President Donald Trump defended the easing sanctions on Russian oil, excusing reports that the nation’s dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been assisting Iran in its war efforts against the U.S.

“I think [Putin] might be helping [Iran] a little bit,” Trump said during his call-in to Fox News on Friday. “And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?”

At least 13 U.S. soldiers have died since the start of the war. Trump’s decision to launch a war with Iran is a boon for Putin, creating chaos in the oil markets.

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Trump: The Iran War Will End 'When I Feel It In My Bones'

During a Fox News interview this morning, Trump explained there is no military objective that would signal the end of his Iranian war, only when he gets a feeling deep inside his bones.

If the USA had a credible Congress, it would have called a meeting right now to discuss Trump's malignant thoughts on the Iran war that he started on a whim after being prodded by warmongers inside and outside the US.

TRUMP: I'm doing something about it, and I had to take an excursion. We had the greatest economy in history, we do, we still do. Oh, this will bounce right back. When it's over, and I don't think it's going to be long. When it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast.

KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it's over?

TRUMP: When I feel it.

KILMEADE: Okay.

TRUMP: When I feel it in my bones.

KILMEADE: Will you ask anybody in particular would that be some of these a joint decision with people?

TRUMP: I have great people.

There is nothing great about Trump, including his economy.

Trump's economy is horrific. People are taking a second job to pay for healthcare costs, and millions have lost access to healthcare because of the Big Ugly bill and his refusal to extend ACA subsidies.

Inflation has skyrocketed, and now fuel costs are rising because Trump declared war on Iran.

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Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics

Kalanick's existing ghost kitchen company CloudKitchens will be rolled into Atoms, which also wants to get into mining and transport.

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Trump Attacks 'Rotten Reporter' For Refuting His Arizona Voter Fraud Lies

During another annoying helicopter press gaggle, Trump attacked a journalist for being a "rotten reporter" for refuting his election fraud conspiracy when she asked why the FBI confiscated Arizona's voter records for 2020, when Bill Barr, his own Attorney General said there was no fraud in Arizona.

On Monday, it was reported that the FBI obtained records relating to the 2020 election in Arizona to continue to pursue Trump's conspiracy theories over his brutal loss in 2020.

PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Liz Landers did what every reporter and journalist should do when confronted with Trump's insane lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Every reality based person knows all the evidence proves he got trounced by Joe Biden.

Landers did not go quietly in the night.

LANDERS: Sir, in Arizona, why did the FBI seize election records in that state?

TRUMP: Well, they probably thought the election was rigged, right?

LANDERS: It wasn't rigged, though.

TRUMP: Oh, really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election.

TRUMP: I think it was rigged.

LANDERS: There's no evidence. Sir, where's the evidence for that? It wasn't rigged.

TRUMP: If you think it wasn’t rigged, you’re a rotten reporter!

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Why Rivian is holding the $45,000 base model R2 until ‘late 2027’

Rivian spent the last two years promoting the R2 as a $45,000 SUV. But buyers won't be able to pay that price until late next year -- if at all.

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We Just Went Through One Of The Warmest Winters On Record

This was a very bad winter if you're concerned about the changing climate -- and of course you are.

Yale Climate Connections reports that Winter 2025-26 (December through February) was the second-warmest in U.S. records going back to 1895. The average temperature for the contiguous states was 37.13 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the monthly roundup released on March 9 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Given that the warmest winter on record was 2023-24, with 37.47 degrees F, the two warmest U.S. winters in 131 years of data have now occurred in the last three years.

Many parts of the northeastern half of the country, roughly from the Great Lakes into the Eastern Seaboard and Deep South, did see stretches of cold and snow that rivaled anything over the last few decades. Where you live, it might not have been a record-breaking winter at all – except for large stretches of the nation from the Great Plains westward, where many states and communities saw their warmest winter-long averages in more than a century of record-keeping.

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Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact

The National Transportation Safety Board released documents ahead of a March 31 hearing that help show how and why two drivers crashed into stationary vehicles in 2024, leading to three deaths.

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'Tone Deaf': Trump's Granddaughter Flaunts Secret Service On Luxury Shopping Trip

Kai Trump, granddaughter of the president of the United States, made a video bragging about taking her Secret Service agents on a luxury shopping trip.

In a 20-minute YouTube video titled "I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon," Kai Trump shared her experience shopping at the upscale grocery chain.

"Alright, guys, well, welcome back to the channel," the MAGA influencer began. "Right now, we are in Erewhon, which is in LA. This is to be an Erewhon video. and everything I get from Erewhon... Erewhon is the most expensive grocery store, pretty much out there. Everything's crazy expensive."

At one point, the president's granddaughter joked that the shipping trip was so expensive that she would have to "file for bankruptcy."

The spree came as a war in Iran started by Kai Trump's grandfather was causing gas prices to spike to over $3 a gallon in many states.

Commenters on X blasted her for the "tone deaf" shopping trip.

"Time to enlist, girly," one person wrote.

"Give me a break. Put a uniform on," Tracey Gallagher agreed.

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YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

YouTube pulled in $40.4 billion in ad revenue last year, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery combined.

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OpenAI and Google employees rush to Anthropic’s defense in DOD lawsuit

More than 30 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees signed onto a statement supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Defense Department after the agency labeled the AI firm a supply-chain risk, according to court filings.

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It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of State Attorneys General don't want to drop the lawsuit.

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Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.

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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

If you're a fan of 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, World War Z, The Walking Dead or any other zombie apocalypse movie or TV show, you can thank prolific science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson for getting the modern, zombie apocalypse genre kick started with his 1954 novel, "I Am Legend". Like zombies themselves, the core ideas of the novel -- a global zombie plague, hordes of infected creatures threatening the last survivors, a quasi-scientific explanation for the disaster -- keep right on mutating and rising again to scare the crap out of audience, and the very first adaptation of the novel hit theaters on this day in 1964. It starred Vincent Price and Emma Danieli.

Matheson said the idea came when he was thinking about vampire stories like Dracula and wondered: what if there were just one vampire left in the modern world? Then he flipped the idea: what if there were one normal man left in a world full of vampires?

Free Thought Blogs: The rot is everywhere.

Washington Monthly: With Iran, Obama Displayed “The Art of the Deal.” Trump Didn’t.

Politicus USA: Trump Runs Away And Ignores Questions When Asked About Kristi Noem Firing.

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OPEN THREAD: Trump Supporter Flips Out As He Sees Gas Prices

With crude oil up over $25 a barrel since Trump and Israel attacked Iran, this guy's gas woes are only going to get exponentially worse in the coming days and weeks. Maybe next time, don't vote for the sociopath. Just a thought.

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Trump supporter flips out as he sees gas prices, proceeds to rip Trump sticker off of his vehicle and curse out the administration.

“How the f-ck can we take America back when these c-ck suckers don’t even support us?”

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OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.

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Trump Already Planning His Next Regime Change

Donald Trump is already over his head in the dangerous Middle East war he just began and, when not dreaming about his $300 million Marie Antoinette Ballroom, he is dreaming of his next foreign adventure.

On Friday, CNN’s Dana Bash seemed more than a little surprised as she reported that Trump, “without being asked,” had “quickly turned to Cuba” after a statement about the current war. The New York Times called that statement “the latest in the shifting goals Mr. Trump has laid out for the war.” For those of you who have lost count, The Times was referring to the war with Iran, not Trump’s military attacks on Venezuela, Ecuador, Caribbean fishing boats, or party balloons over El Paso.

Planning a new military adventure barely a week into the current one seems a tad reckless, doncha' think? It hardly inspires confidence in the military team of Commander Bone Spurs Trump and TV-host-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete “WhiskeyLeaks” Hegseth. To put it mildly.

“Cuba is going to fall pretty soon, by the way,” Trump reportedly remarked. Like it was a little detail he almost forgot.

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Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."

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Thousands Of Americans Stranded Overseas By Trump''s Attack On Iran

The worst Speaker of the House in modern history, Rep Mike Johnson told the media today that the United States is not at war with Iran, even after multiple Republicans, Donald Trump, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have repeatedly said we are.

Johnson made the statements after the House voted against passing the Iran War Powers resolution.

"As you know, the War Powers Resolution failed; that is the right result," Johnson said. "We are not at war. We have no intention of being at war."

The President and the Department of Defense have made this very clear. The Department of War has made it very clear.

One has to wonder why Jebus Johnson lies so much.

On March 2nd, during a presser, SecDef Hegseth said this, "We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.

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Oh Noes! DoJ Gives Up On Making Joe Biden Pay For Autopen Crimes

Oh darn! The DoJ has dropped an investigation into former President Joe Biden's nefarious use of an autopen, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News.

The highly respected Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin opened the probe while he was interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. It wound down recently under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney, who is a longtime Trump ally and former Fox News host.

The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro's office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders.

Seems it's difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute. Huh, imagine that. I guess the criminal statute that exists only in the Golden King's mind isn't enough?

But wait! Our Esteemed Supreme Court says presidents are immune from prosecution, anyway! I'm so confused!

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Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.

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Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

More than 10 global airlines now accept Find Hub locations as part of their baggage recovery process.

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'We Have A Superior Culture': Charlie Kirk Show Calls To Deport Muslim-American Reporter

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet called for journalist Mehdi Hasan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be deported because he opposed the Department of Education hanging a banner of Kirk because he called college a "scam."

During a Monday Charlie Kirk show broadcast, Neff and Kolvet appeared irate about Hasan's opposition to President Donald Trump's Education Department's decision to celebrate Kirk.

"And so some very nasty people. I don't think we need to really pull any punches there. They're gross people," Neff said. "They deserve to be absolutely excoriated for this insane attack against Charlie. And of course, we are talking about none other than Mehdi Hasan."

Neff called Hasan a "foreigner" despite his American citizenship.

"Well, he had to say, first Democratic presidential candidate who publicly pledges to tear down this particular banner on day one of his or her administration gets an immediate bump in their presidential primary polling," Kolvet explained of the British-born journalist. "Go back to whatever hellhole you came from and go terrorize the people there."

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Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue

The company said usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes in 2026. Other documents referenced back teens a top priority for the app before asking existing users for birthdays.

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Whackaloon GOP Rep Insists 'Military Strikes And Invasions Are Two Different Things'

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna once again lives up to her name. The Trump sycophant made an appearance on MS Now's The Weekend Primetime this Sunday, and was pressed by all of the hosts on the justification for Trump and Israel's strikes on Iran and Trump's refusal to go to Congress for authorization, and the MAGA apologist defended the strikes as "targeted" and "strategic" — not an act of war — and said Congress would not vote on a war declaration.

Luna's nonsense drew lots of pushback from Catherine Rampell, Elise Jordan, and Ayman Mohyeldin.

After Luna insisted that "it is not the intention of the U.S. government to invade. That is not what is happening. These are isolated, strategic, large-scale attacks," Rampell pushed back. "I'm sorry. You say it's not the intention of the U.S. government to invade? Did we not just invade?"

"We are not invading. Are you saying boots-on-the-ground there? Because I'm not," Luna insisted. "And I've been told directly by the State Department and the White House that that's not the intention."

The exchange grew heated at Rampell cut in: "I mean, we just killed the leader of the country."

Luna continued to insist that "strategic military strikes and invasions are two totally different things," and said she was told by Hegseth that "strategic strikes are not war," which was countered by Rampell noting that even Trump was calling it a war.

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Kamala Harris Just Endorsed Jasmine Crockett In TX Senate Primary

Kamala Harris has endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary race for the Texas Senate race, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago.

Crockett is in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial following on social media. Crockett has crafted her image as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter in an era in which Democratic voters like candidates who vocally oppose Trump.

The endorsement from Harris, first reported by The Texas Tribune, came in a recorded phone message sent to Texas Democrats.

“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” Ms. Harris says. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday endorsed U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

This is a stamp of approval from a major figure as Crockett fights fears that she’s seen as too controversial to win a general election.

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Lindsey Graham: 'This Idea You Break It, You Own It, I Don't Buy That One Bit'

Sen. Lindsey Graham has been making the rounds since Trump and Israel launched their attack on Iran, heaping praise on Dear Leader and pretending everything is going to go wonderfully, rather than admit they just opened up a can of worms with no idea what comes next with the chaos they unleashed on the region.

It was more of the same on this Sunday's Meet the Press, with Graham getting extremely testy with host Kristen Welker when she pressed him on how we make sure the regime that replaces the one we just took out isn't worse.

WELKER: Senator history tells us just how complicated regime change is. we saw that when Saddam Hussein was ousted, and the terror threat and group moved in. How will the United States make sure that the next Iranian government isn't worse than the current regime?

GRAHAM: It's not our job to pick the next Iranian government. I don't remember being attacked by Iraq any time, you know, in the past. Iraq is complicated, but, you know, we have a relationship with Iraq.

It's up to Iran to pick your leader. It's not my job. It's not President Trump's job. We're not going to occupy the country. We're going give the people of Iran a chance to do something they've never had before, chart their own destiny.

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With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring.

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