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Google quantum exec: US government funding would’ve come with ‘conditions’

Google’s Charina Chou said the government “can do more” to invest in and support the sector.
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Trumpworld connections are fueling Coupang’s clash with South Korea

Republicans are offering remarkable support for South Korea’s biggest online retailer.
Coupang delivery trucksJosh Smith/Reuters

Democrats weigh whether a Senate majority is possible without Platner

An expanding map and his recent stumbles are nudging some in the party to look beyond Maine.
Graham PlatnerBrian Snyder/Reuters

A Sputnik moment: China’s beating the US in neuroscience

“This is going to be one of the three or four major plot lines of the next decade,” former Neuralink president says.
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Democrats weigh whether a Senate majority is possible without Platner

An expanding map and his recent stumbles are nudging some in the party to look beyond Maine.
Graham PlatnerBrian Snyder/Reuters

Lawmakers warn Commerce about easing trade penalties

A pair of lawmakers worry the Trump administration is going easy on foreign companies potentially involved in dumping Chinese and Russian goods in the US.
Secretary of Commerce Howard LutnickToby Melville/Reuters

$35 insulin deal has 60 votes in Senate

A bipartisan insulin pricing deal in the Senate now has enough votes to clear a filibuster.
Jeanne ShaheenKylie Cooper/Reuters

Why Democrats rejected ‘class traitor’ Steyer in California

As Steyer grew more ambitious, the donor-doer billionaire came to embody the Democratic Party’s problems.

Trumpworld connections are fueling Coupang’s clash with South Korea

Republicans are offering remarkable support for South Korea’s biggest online retailer.

Blanche faces a rocky road to confirmation in the Senate

Sen. Thom Tillis’, R-N.C., reservations about the acting attorney general are well-known, but there are other undecided senators on the judiciary panel.

Jockeying starts for a Trump intelligence job that may be taken

The president isn’t clear about whether he would name a permanent replacement for Bill Pulte, but contenders are already materializing.

House prediction market ban faces turbulence

One Democrat said his party would likely oppose it in the hopes of passing a stronger ban next year.

Greer heads to Silicon Valley to promote onshoring

The US trade representative will tour manufacturing facilities.

Some Republicans want Pulte out for intelligence job

“Democrats are not going to vote to pass [a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act extension] until he’s withdrawn,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Democrats aren’t winning the foreign policy argument, group says

Democrats need to revamp their message if they want to capitalize on voter angst over the war in Iran, the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way writes.
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