"We all knew they were going to spend their money," said Abdul El-Sayed. "We didn't know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1. And yet we're still standing."
Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in Crucial Michigan Senate Race
The endorsement is the first in a contested Senate primary by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this year, in a state that Democrats believe they must hold this fall to win a Senate majority.
El-Sayed responds after Vance calls him a "weasel" as Michigan Senate race grows contentious
Abdul El-Sayed told Michigan voters the state's U.S. Senate race could go down "as one of the ugliest campaigns in modern history."
The shallow impact of India’s AI summit
The US government still can’t think beyond “winning.” The rest of the world is still thinking too small
Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan - Schneier on Security
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?” We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the ...
LA was supposed to have a no-cost Olympics in 2028. The city has already spent $27 million
LA was supposed to have a no-cost Olympics in 2028. City Controller Kenneth Mejia is tracking spending inside the city, including about $11 million to pay workers in various city departments.
Full Transcript: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
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Michigan Senate debate: Fact-checks of El-Sayed, Rogers
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, and his Republican opponent Mike Rogers, a former U.S. House representative, met for the first time in an Oct. 8 debate, with each candidate trying to drag down the other through a series of personal attacks that have become the trademark of their nasty campaign. In […]
Meet the Press – October 11, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Michael Lewis, Tom Costello, Stephen Hayes, Jeh Johnson and Amna Nawaz
Think tank tied to tech billionaires played key role in Biden’s AI order
Researchers from the RAND Corporation — which took more than $15 million this year from a group financed by a Facebook co-founder — were a driving force behind the White House’s sweeping new AI reporting requirements.
An AI CEO finally said something honest
24K votes, 828 comments. Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take: “everyone's talking…
How Massive Is Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself
WIRED has partnered with Neal Agarwal of Neal.fun to create a visualization of Elon Musk’s massive wealth. Here’s how it came together.
Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
“You’re expected to give pretty much your whole self to Meta AI.”
Billionaires Gone Wild
Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy
Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X
Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024
"Make Americans pay again!" (L'Opinion) - Emmanuel Combe
Emmanuel Combe a publié le 27 Décembre 2024 une chronique dans L’Opinion sur la politique économique à venir de Donald Trump. Make Americans pay again ! Plusieurs études académiques ont montré que le protectionnisme prati<qué par Donald Trump avait détruit de l’emploi au niveau agrégé Donald Trump a été élu, comme lors de son premier mandat, […]
