62 h. ago Washington Going Bankrupt While Wasting Billions of Taxpayer Dollars on Unused and Unneeded Properties

Washington Going Bankrupt While Wasting Billions of Taxpayer Dollars on Unused and Unneeded Properties  North Tama Telegraph

Economics

4 d. ago The hidden cost of convenience: How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts for your location. And the app is free.

Economics

4 d. ago Why a GOP senator says the budget bill breaks Trump's promise

The massive budget bill that Senate Republicans are debating pays for some of its tax cuts by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid spending. The latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates nearly 12 million people will lose health insurance if the Senate version of the bill becomes law. Trump insists the cuts come from eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Democrats have said they break Trump's promise not to touch Medicaid — and over the weekend, Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina agreed. "What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore?" We asked Sarah Jane Tribble, the chief rural correspondent for KFF Health News, what the cuts will mean for rural residents of states like North Carolina — and the hospitals that serve them.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple ...

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5 d. ago Washington goes bankrupt wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on unused, unneeded properties

Washington goes bankrupt wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on unused, unneeded properties  Times Republican

Economics

6 d. ago OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.”

Politics

9 d. ago Judge orders Trump admin to release billions in EV charging funds

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars allocated for the construction of electric vehicle charging stations in over a dozen US states.

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1 week ago Watch Live: Senate Debates Trump's Proposed Billions in Cuts to USAID

The Senate Appropriations Committee holds a hearing to debate President Donald Trump's proposed billions of dollars of cuts to USAID and other sectors of government on Wednesday, June 25. The post Watch Live: Senate Debates Trump’s Proposed Billions in Cuts to USAID appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

While the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.

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1 week ago Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt

Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

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1 week ago Report: Mark Zuckerberg's Olive Branch to Trump and MAGA Sparks 'Horror' Amongst Meta Employees

Mark Zuckerberg's comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and his multiple olive branches to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have reportedly left Meta employees horrified and disgruntled. The post Report: Mark Zuckerberg’s Olive Branch to Trump and MAGA Sparks ‘Horror’ Amongst Meta Employees appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Repeal of Clean Energy Law Will Mean a Hotter Planet, Scientists Warn

Republicans plan to terminate billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits. Experts say that will mean more greenhouse gas emissions and more dangerous heat.

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2 w. ago After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe […]

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2 w. ago Trump thinks ‘too many’ US holidays are costing Americans ‘billions of dollars’

Trump thinks ‘too many’ US holidays are costing Americans ‘billions of dollars’  MassLive

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2 w. ago Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]

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2 w. ago Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too

Meta is reportedly working on a pair of AI smart glasses with Prada.

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2 w. ago Nolte: Trump Enjoys Majority Support from Black and Hispanic Voters

Despite billions of corporate media dollars over ten years that have been weaponized to undermine President Trump’s standing with racial minorities, the latest Rasmussen polling shows Trump with majority support from both black and Hispanic voters. The post Nolte: Trump Enjoys Majority Support from Black and Hispanic Voters appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Scott Bessent: Trump Tax Plan Will Stop Foreign Governments from Draining U.S. Revenues

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended a key provision of the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill, saying it would stop foreign governments from siphoning hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue from U.S. companies. The post Scott Bessent: Trump Tax Plan Will Stop Foreign Governments from Draining U.S. Revenues appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Report: Meta taps Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang to join new ‘superintelligence’ lab

Mark Zuckerberg is hand-picking top researchers and engineers to join an upcoming AI research lab dedicated to “superintelligence," and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang is on the list.

Technology

3 w. ago Five Times Bureaucrats Were 'Asleep at the Wheel' Policing Coronavirus Aid Fraud

Bureaucrats have failed to have the most basic safeguards in place to prevent potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in coronavirus aid fraud. Here are five of the most egregious examples. The post Five Times Bureaucrats Were ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ Policing Coronavirus Aid Fraud appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AI

Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment for the Facebook parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company.

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