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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to withhold billions of dollars in preparedness grant funding from states that decline to adopt a set of new election-security requirements. The conditions, attached to more than $1 billion available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Grant Programme, would require measures such as voter…
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Fresh doubts are raised over Farage’s claims he did not have to declare £5million ‘gift’ from crypto-currency tycoon
Fresh questions have been raised over Nigel Farage’s explanation for why he did not declare a £5million “gift” from crypto-currency entrepreneur Christopher Harborne. The Reform leader received the money in April 2024 but it remained secret until this year, and he argues he had no obligation to register it with Commons authorities because it was…
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Days after announcing mass layoffs, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma tapped to advise the Federal Reserve on jobs
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Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ Officially Gets Its Biggest Update in 15 Years
Sherlock Holmes 3 writer Chris Brancato has confirmed that he has written a draft of Robert Downey Jr.’s long-awaited sequel.
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise
Lyzr, a three-year-old enterprise AI-agent startup based in Jersey City, New Jersey, has raised a $100 million Series B at a valuation of roughly $500 million — and, according to Bloomberg, it let its own AI agent run the fundraise. The system, named SivaClaw, reportedly fielded questions from more than 130 investors, drafted investment memos…
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12 New Songs Out Today
The provided article text could not be retrieved: instead of the actual content, the page returned only a browser-verification placeholder (“Just a moment… Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue”). This is a bot-protection or JavaScript-gate screen from Brooklyn Vegan, meaning none of the underlying editorial content — the round-up of new song releases — was…
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is closing down Atlas, the AI-powered web browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its heart, but it is not abandoning the wider goal of using AI to help people browse the web. Rather than maintaining a standalone browser, the company is redistributing the agentic browsing features it trialled in Atlas across ChatGPT’s…
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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Elon Musk has publicly praised Anthropic and pledged never to abruptly “cut off” the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers, after users on X suggested he could disable a rival that relies on his infrastructure. Musk went so far as to admit he was “clearly wrong about Anthropic,” reversing his September 2025 claim that “winning was…
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Bad Bunny’s Foundation Shares Details for ‘Un Verano Contigo’ 2026, A Free Program For Youth in Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s charity, Fundación Good Bunny, has announced the 2026 edition of Un Verano Contigo, a free educational and cultural programme for young people in Puerto Rico. The three-week initiative will host 270 participants and covers art, fashion, music and sport, aiming to give island youth access to experiences, tools and mentors that help them…
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Is Advising the Federal Reserve on the Economic Impact of AI as Part of a ‘Productivity and Jobs’ Taskforce
The US Federal Reserve has appointed Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma to a newly formed “Productivity and Jobs” taskforce charged with assessing the economic impact of new technologies, including artificial intelligence. The appointment is notable both for its high profile — Sharma sits alongside venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Stanford economist Charles I. Jones —…