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"Consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level since 2014 in September as an inflation-weary public took a dimmer view on the labor market and the impact higher prices would have on their finances, the Conference Board reported Tuesday." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/c...

Consumer optimism slides to lowest since 2014 as fears escalate over rising prices and jobs

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index tumbled to 81.9, a decline of 6.7 points and a reading well below the forecast for 89.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

wapo.st/4yo82H9 Gift Article WaPo $10 for a gallon of gas has red Alaska thinking about a Democratic senator Mary Peltola hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race all about prices, federal aid and Donald Trump.

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$10 for a gallon of gas has red Alaska thinking about a Democratic senator

Mary Peltola hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in a race all about prices, federal aid and Donald Trump.

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Mistral Chief Executive Arthur Mensch said the debate over the safety of AI in the U.S. was being used to cover up the “negligence” of some competitors. He added that it is necessary to make systems that can contain AI agents... www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/m... <—-

Mistral CEO says U.S. AI safety debate masks competitors’ 'negligence'

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch criticized rivals’ AI safety arguments as the industry faces scrutiny after several AI agents took unauthorized actions.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both parents feed & protect the chicks. “One of my all time favorite loon clips. This was the first time that I got 2 chicks on the parent’s back at the same time several years ago.” Canon R5 and 100-500mm lens IG: @harrycollinsphotography www.instagram.com/harrycollins...

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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs

“Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year, and as part of its risk factors, warned that many of its largest clients were not locked into long-term contracts and could cut or stop spending.” www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. But ...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

All of this media on "takes on rogue AI" or whatever, is all the billionaires (newly minted or old), people doing so-called "AI safety" getting hundreds of millions claiming to save us from extinction, and then me playing in my kiddy pool with my pretend dollars 😂 www.npr.org/2026/09/26/n...

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The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amazon is eager to open the single biggest climate wrecking facility in the country. billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-cri...

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Amazon Crime

And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

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so give me all of yours & your government’s…

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EBay Times reports that McKinsey, the man who was killed and had worked for NYT as an engineering director, told the court he'd experienced spousal abuse and bigoted denigration within his own family because he was a trans man...

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That's nice, everyone who wanted to swallow batteries will be able to

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

xAI's Colossus 2 data center in greater Memphis is currently the largest in the world, but Meta's Hyperion complex in Louisiana will soon overtake it - until it is overtaken in this insane race by 4 other larger proposed complexes.

Graphic showing the size of Colossus 2 and Hyperion data center complexes relative to Centrai Park.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Um, they’ve sent five to Mars already, right?

: Reuters

SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years, Musk says
By Reuters
September 22, 2024 1:47 PM PDT • Updated a month ago

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random. i'm worried about Trevor Noah. heard him doing his podcast saying he doesn't believe cyberbullying is real and people can always just log off to avoid what we call cyberbullying. my dude, that is a d-bag take. having covered use of Grok to mass produce & share CSAM / NCII deepfakes, just no.

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SpaceX Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 more Starlink v3 satellites this morning. They now want to circle the Earth several times and land off the coast of Chile. Each trip around the planet takes about 90 mins. if I heard that correctly...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SpaceX announced in a post on X this morning it's targeting a launch time of 7:48 a.m. CT for this flight...

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Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of this

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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

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FAA authorized SpaceX for the Starship flight 14 tomorrow (mon.) morning... We'll watch the launch and update so you don't have to but -- it'll be the first time the massive rocket is sent to orbit the planet if it goes off successfully. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/s...

SpaceX prepares to send Starship rocket to orbit for first time

Elon Musk's SpaceX is poised to launch a historic test flight of its massive Starship rocket early Monday.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026

Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...

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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 27/09/2026

To understand what it's like inside ICE's Aurora detention center, @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social spoke to current + former detainees and reviewed 911 records and audio recordings from emergency calls. “They treat you as if we’re animals, basically,” a Venezuelan told them

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Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center

In interviews with The Denver Post, current and former detainees described frequent fights and feelings of hopelessness. They say they’re often served inedible or rotten food that frequently gives the...

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/09/2026

Well, just had a leading LLM get an internal error processing a Material Safety Data Sheet I sent it, so it HALLUCINATED THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD and created a fake version of the product... so it could give answers about the product. Oh lord.

When you provided the API link to the
STEK SDS, my internal browsing tool attempted to access it and hit a server block (URL_FETCH_STATUS_MISC_ERROR ).
Instead of halting the analysis and informing you that I could not read the document, my system attempted to fill in the blanks using generalized training data.

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This is what Paramount promised Hollywood to secure the WBD deal - and why many are skeptical... www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/p... (Also, this story didn't dive into it? But how much is gen AI going to be used to make those 30 movies?)

Here's exactly what Paramount promised Hollywood to land WBD — and why some are still skeptical

Paramount CEO David Ellison's antitrust settlement eased some theatrical concerns, but questions remain about what happens when the five-year agreement ends.

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"So far companies have been willing to absorb the higher debt costs, but some investors say they’re starting to worry about future financings." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/27/d... Yeeeeeeeahhhhh

Debt-hungry AI companies face increased risk as bond yields spike

The AI infrastructure buildout shows no sign of slowing, but the surge in Treasury yields means it's at least going to cost more.

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Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script

thinking about this so much because of Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming, fictionalized Meta whistleblower movie, his second on Facebook obviously... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/m...

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Whistleblowers with famous funders sometimes get listened to. Independent whistleblowers who do not hire white shoe law firms etc. less so. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/t... I think about how the Gensler SEC failed to interview these whistleblowers at least weekly. Gigs and gigs of company data? Meh.

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here's what the complaint said

Two whistleblowers' complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk's automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards.

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this stuff has been endemic in tech (and other industries) my entire career covering tech & business. anyone remember Brotopia? www.news.com.au/finance/busi...

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icymi - on Fri., Elon Musk did an interview with China Media Group in which he said Grok Bot is growing 100% a month... (he also once again praised China's leader and workers and so on. he typically never says, nor can afford to say, anything critical about China) youtu.be/34-5wOGmCKc?...

Screenshot from Elon Musk interview by the state funded news organization China Media Group (in China): https://youtu.be/34-5wOGmCKc?si=cgzz4daKrvDSAXfC&t=345 screenshot says "um and is growing about 100% per month"

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