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Lawmakers Seek Quieter Ads and Less … Free Speech?
[ad_1] State lawmakers are telling streamers to shhhhhh their ads. Online gamblers are flooding Florida help lines now that sports betting is legal. Some…
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4 Questions About Trump’s State of the Union
[ad_1] President Donald Trump will give the first State of the Union address of his second term tomorrow. He’s expected to defend his economic…
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ICE, Inflation and AI Ethics: The Week in Review
[ad_1] Hello and happy Friday! We have just one more week of February, which means we’re inching ever closer to spring. I’m Sidney Slon,…
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More Price Increases Are Coming in 2026
[ad_1] What do Levi Strauss, spice-maker McCormick, BMW and Porsche, Cincinnati’s Structural Systems Repair Group and 16 major drug makers have in common? They’re…
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Fighting Deepfakes and Petro-states: The Week in News
[ad_1] Happy Friday folks, Seth Cline here. Before we dive into the news, a quick programming note: Decision Points is off Monday for MLK…
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AI Pushback: Governments Eye Action on Political Ads, Deepfakes
[ad_1] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to ban AI-generated images from state politics. Canada may restrict “deepfakes” after the uproar over Grok “undressing”…
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The Teddy Bear Said What? And Other Dispatches From the AI Frontier
[ad_1] The race to embrace artificial intelligence for its promise of unrivaled productivity may not be a conventional political story. But implementing it without…
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Weekly Roundup: Anatomy of a Cave and a $2,000 Check?
[ad_1] It’s the end of the week that marked the end of a record-breaking government shutdown. Federal workers went back to their jobs yesterday.…
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The Democrats Have a Democrat Problem
[ad_1] We’re one year away from the 2026 midterm elections and a day before voters in New Jersey and Virginia elect governors – as…
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This Week in Economics: Tariffs, SNAP Fears and Holiday Spending
[ad_1] Well, well, if it isn’t another Friday come upon us. And Halloween, no less. Fret not: We only have treats for you here.…
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It’s Not You, It’s ‘Removing Layers’: Wave of Corporate Layoffs (And Lingo) Hits Workers
[ad_1] In other words, you’re out of a job. Like tens of thousands of other corporate-speak victims. The causes vary widely: turbulent markets, President…
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The Art of the Tariff Deal: U.S. Nears Trade Agreement With China
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s approach to trade negotiations landed the U.S. in a familiar place over the weekend. Announced with fanfare back in April…
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Four Things to Know About Trump’s New White House Ballroom
[ad_1] Construction on the Trump administration’s controversial White House ballroom with a price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars began this week…
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Bad News for Farmers and Good News for News: Weekly Roundup
[ad_1] Friday? Already? Guess we’ll take it. Monday I dug into high-quality AI video generation that has the potential to make “video or it…
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New AI Tool Makes Faking Reality Frighteningly Easy
[ad_1] They were all created with OpenAI’s Sora 2 video app, released Sept. 30. And they’re pretty darn good. And that could be pretty…
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The Case of the Missing Federal Budget
[ad_1] In the flurry of federal government action since January, you may have missed one noteworthy thing that didn’t happen. Presidents George W. Bush,…
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Missing Data Leaves Economy ‘Flying Blind’
[ad_1] It’s a ritual that economists, investors and businesses eagerly anticipate the first Friday of each month – checking to see how many people…
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The U.S. Is on Track for Its Lowest Murder Rate Ever
[ad_1] I’ve been pretty public about my admiration for crime analyst Jeff Asher and his Real-Time Crime Index, a tool that lets you take…