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  NBC exit poll: 56% said AI and data centers had been a "crucial or a major factor" in casting their votes for Congress, as candidates pledge to halt development (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/badd6af9-88b7-47b7-b1c2-067814e70fb5 http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p13#a261104p13

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  Apple says it will check iCloud items shared to "Anyone with the link" for "harmful content" in 27.3 OS versions, and may delete the content or disable accounts (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/04/with-ios-27-3-apple-will-start-checking-icloud-public-links-for-harmful-content/ http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p47#a261104p47

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  Shares of US tech giants jump after Democrats' midterm sweep as investors bet that a Democrat-controlled Congress will slow AI capex that's draining cash flow (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/big-tech-stocks-soar-as-traders-bet-democrats-will-slow-ai-spend?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MzgxNDc5MCwiZXhwIjoxNzk0NDE5NTkwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTlpJR0JWVFRENUUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4OUM...

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  Titan OS, which monetizes smart TVs via ads and FAST deals, raised $46M in equity and debt, for a total funding of $110M, says it has 30M users, up from 18M YoY (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/titan-os-raises-46-million-to-expand-its-smart-tv-os-internationally/ http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p42#a261104p42

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  Democrats' sweep of Congress raises the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing in early 2027, including mandatory testing and developer liability (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer) https://www.transformernews.ai/p/midterms-democrats-blue-tsunami-ai-policy-legislation http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p40#a261104p40

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  CoreWeave's stock and unsecured bonds fall after sweeping Democratic midterm victories, as Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa calls for a data center moratorium (Katherine Schwartz/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/coreweave-bonds-hit-new-lows-as-texas-data-centers-in-crosshairs http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p39#a261104p39

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  Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250M in 2026 midterms, but lost 9/12 competitive races called so far, spending $74.7M on losing candidates and $28.3M on winners (Molly White/Citation Needed) https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/ http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p35#a261104p35

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  Uber reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $14.8B, Gross Bookings up 20% to $59.8B, trips up 16% to 4B, and plans to scale its autonomous fleet to 2,000+ in 2027 (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/2fc1bfc2-4d16-4eb2-a8d4-eaef4f4571af http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p25#a261104p25

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  US voters in 29+ jurisdictions overwhelmingly pass data center bans or restrictions; S&P says 145+ US projects were delayed or canceled through early August (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/11/04/voters-pass-over-20-ballot-measures-ban-or-restrict-data-centers/ http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p24#a261104p24

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  Democrats running on AI regulation and anti-data center platforms won key races, including Sherrod Brown in Ohio, as leadership signals aggressive AI oversight (Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/04/dems-made-big-tech-a-foil-and-they-couldnt-stop-winning-01148450 http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p22#a261104p22

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  Democratic gubernatorial wins in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania could expose 50% of proposed US AI data center additions to greater scrutiny and pushback (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/ai-data-center-boom-is-set-for-upheaval-after-us-election-rout http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p6#a261104p6

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  S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/a6c43402-719e-4295-ae5f-541edb0aeb29 http://www.techmeme.com/261027/p5#a261027p5

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  Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special "terms" for AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/while-amazon-blocks-ai-agents-walmart-rolls-out-the-welcome-mat/ http://www.techmeme.com/261021/p62#a261021p62

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  Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation (Maria Curi/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/10/14/ai-safety-regulation-election-spending-50-million http://www.techmeme.com/261014/p12#a261014p12

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  Apple v. OpenAI: a US judge partly grants Apple's motion for expedited discovery, ordering OpenAI to hand over forensic images of devices and other documents (Annelise Levy/Bloomberg Law) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/apple-wins-early-access-to-openai-files-in-trade-secrets-suit http://www.techmeme.com/261013/p44#a261013p44

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  Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes (Anthropic) https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai http://www.techmeme.com/261012/p40#a261012p40

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  Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo http://www.techmeme.com/260703/p11#a260703p11

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  An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/confidential-tiktok-report-shows-algorithm-safety-feature-withheld-from-millions?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NTg4MDgzNCwiZXhwIjoxNzg2NDg1NjM0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSjlKT0dLR1pBS0wwM...

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  OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations (Wired) https://www.wired.com/story/ok-well-there-are-even-more-ai-agent-hacking-incidents/ http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p53#a260804p53

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  House panel report: US telcos connected their systems to data centers in a way that exposed them to vulnerabilities, potentially enabling Salt Typhoon hacks (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/chinese-telecom-hack-exposed-data-centers-house-report-to-say http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p54#a260804p54

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  Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/09/spy-cameras-on-navy-drones-secretly-sent-data-to-china/ http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p16#a260809p16

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  Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/ac282450-91a8-4597-8f60-9e6ef416865a?accessToken=zwAAAZ_YJQmGk888DsxYYwtNdNOKvbF-tzEWz9PBCsWyALpHwdOF26Z1TieU5tOsKCRQkahFl9OPYJ5u9BaGWgE.MEQCIB2b3OCIMLFrpWhGxDYz9DxrTdNEvkCqkHgxHSZ7eAURAiATRpXOmuOoglt3vQttZICH1eZrWbqu1_0nZpd0oh4tdQ&segmentId=7d4bcc2e-e664-92ba-62e3-5590579f1902 ht...

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  A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-loses-us-court-ban-perplexitys-ai-shopping-tools-2026-08-04/ http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p43#a260804p43

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  "Super Intelligence systems" are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella) https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686 http://www.techmeme.com/261010/p18#a261010p18

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  Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/18/uk-attorney-general-tells-staff-stop-using-x-disinformation-concerns http://www.techmeme.com/260619/p11#a260619p11

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  Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (Martha Muir/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/e9db6384-b295-4ab2-96bf-55025db9ee1d http://www.techmeme.com/260714/p3#a260714p3

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  In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace "artificial" intelligence with "super" (Chandni Shah/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-says-he-will-rename-spacexai-spacexsi-2026-10-04/ http://www.techmeme.com/261004/p14#a261004p14

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  Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor) https://www.semafor.com/article/10/02/2026/meta-parts-ways-with-virtue-ai http://www.techmeme.com/261002/p23#a261002p23

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  Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing "risk factors", including that its AI may pose "existential risks to humanity" (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/c7685a7e-7745-4cbc-8053-4958d0ea449b?accessToken=zwAAAaDr2OW6kdPHaFp-d0VMvNOAU0lY0OpEmw.MEUCIQDri8jri2FtGIfJjPkxOZ5_1_ZIU_6mV2XSWAkmAyHGCQIgNTptc_pqS1KKFIP7hi0m8Qv5D4KIbxvhaHO4CGCedXQ&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareId=21e300e9-e2ac-440e-a832-3462c...

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  OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-to-establish-australian-taskforce-on-ai-cyber-risk http://www.techmeme.com/260929/p1#a260929p1