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In rare social media remarks, Amodei acknowledged AI firms “haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world.”

Attendees will include executives from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple, and Chainlink, plus Kalshi and Paradigm, as well as trade association Digital Chamber, according to people familiar with the plans.

Joe Joplin left his $1,000 pen in a dish near a courthouse metal detector, after which a security camera captured Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton picking it up and walking away.

Democrats are hoping a potential blue wave will make a Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s district competitive.

Some officials see the special grand jury move as an obvious ploy to “save her job at all costs,” as one administration official put it.

Top tech companies are staying quiet so far about a new Justice Department memo that signals an executive privilege assertion over a wide swath of his communications with the private sector.

The US has lost upwards of 25% of its Reaper drones since the start of the Iran war.

“It’s big money, but there’s also a very human cost here,” said Peter Navarro, senior counsel for trade and manufacturing.

A Russian air defense system is still standing in the way of a deal that President Donald Trump announced last month.

Bosnian Croat leader Dragan Čović has tapped Trump-linked firm Mercury Public Affairs to lobby for his party.

Sixty-two percent of Republican students said their college’s leadership mostly acts in students’ best interests, compared with 55% of Democrats and half of independents.

Bernie Sanders got his guy in Michigan, but he’s going to have to do more if he wants to successfully shepherd Abdul El-Sayed through the general election.