Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won California’s competitive congressional districts

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Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won California’s competitive congressional districts

twitter facebook envelope angle-double-right angle-down angle-up long-arrow-right On the ballot this year is an entirely new congressional map. Redrawn with the passage of Proposition 50, the new districts favor Democrats in November. But those gains aren’t guaranteed. Candidates have to make it through California’s primary, where the top two vote-getters move on to the general … Read more

Cleveland Clinic Doctors Are Embracing Ambient AI Scribes

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Cleveland Clinic Doctors Are Embracing Ambient AI Scribes

If you haven’t encountered the technology at your most recent doctor’s appointment, you’ve perhaps learned about it through a medical drama like “The Pitt”: ambient AI scribes. These AI-powered systems record, transcribe, and summarize patient-physician conversations. A 2025 NPJ Digital Medicine paper found that about 30% of physician practices in the United States use AI … Read more

Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: Who won California’s governor, congressional races?

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Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: Who won California’s governor, congressional races?

twitter facebook envelope angle-double-right angle-down angle-up long-arrow-right We’re tracking races across California, including primary elections for U.S. congressional districts that were recently redistricted. Results for governor, statewide officers such as the attorney general and insurance commissioner, as well as state Senate and Assembly contests are available on this page. In state-level primary races, the top … Read more

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections 

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Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released.  The order asks certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new models to the government for testing or evaluation 30 days before releasing the products to the public. A previous … Read more

NBA probe of Steve Ballmer, Clippers nears end with Sanberg sentencing

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NBA probe of Steve Ballmer, Clippers nears end with Sanberg sentencing

The sentencing of Aspiration co-founder Joseph Sanberg to 14 years in federal prison on Monday brings the NBA a step closer to concluding its nine-month investigation into the Clippers allegedly circumventing the salary cap. Sanberg pleaded guilty in October to federal charges of conspiring to bilk investors out of $248 million for portraying the now-defunct … Read more

This Ashburn, Virginia, Neighborhood Wants to Sell Their Homes to Data Centers

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This Ashburn, Virginia, Neighborhood Wants to Sell Their Homes to Data Centers

Mital Gandhi remembers watching the 2024 NBA Finals on TV at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, when he realized something wasn’t right. Instead of hearing the ball bouncing or the intermittent squeaks from shoes on the hardwood, his ears could only focus on a constant hum. That hum, he said, came from one of the … Read more

Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won Los Angeles mayor, city council, LAUSD

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Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won Los Angeles mayor, city council, LAUSD

twitter facebook envelope angle-double-right angle-down angle-up long-arrow-right Elections in the city of Los Angeles include mayor, City Council, three ballot measures and Los Angeles Unified School District board seats and, if you live in the city, you’ve maybe seen an ad about them. The high-profile competition between incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, City Councilmember Nithya Raman … Read more

Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands

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Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises M, has already sold thousands

Board, the three-year-old, New York-based startup building what it calls “together tech” — tech designed to bring people physically into the same room — has closed a $20 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures. General Partner Michael Mignano, in his first investment since joining USV, will join the company’s board of directors. The … Read more

Unframe Lands $50 Million to Boost Enterprise AI. Read Its Pitch Deck.

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Unframe Lands Million to Boost Enterprise AI. Read Its Pitch Deck.

Roughly three years into the generative AI boom, companies are allocating big budgets for AI tools but struggling to put them to work. The two-year-old startup Unframe has raised $50 million in Series B funding to bridge this gap. The latest round brings total funds to $100 million. The company also said it crossed $100 … Read more

Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won in Los Angeles County, Pasadena, Inglewood, Beverly Hills

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Live Election 2026 primary results, updates: who won in Los Angeles County, Pasadena, Inglewood, Beverly Hills

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Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech

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Turning your purse into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to resist big tech

When I reach out to the self-proclaimed “open source baddie” CC for an interview, I’m pretty sure she’s emailing me back from a pink mermaid purse. “I’m just having so much fun,” she tells me about her seashell cyberdeck. “It’s a Tamagotchi. It’s also an e-reader. It’s networked to my vault and my servers, so … Read more

X caters to creators with new ‘React with Video’ feature

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X caters to creators with new ‘React with Video’ feature

On Tuesday, Elon Musk-owned social network X launched a new feature, “React with Video,” that aims to expand the types of commentary on the platform. The feature is being pitched as an alternative to the Repost button, encouraging users not just to reshare or type their reaction via a Quote Post, but actually record a … Read more

I Moved to US for Meta. Layoffs Made Me Scared of Losing My New Life.

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I Moved to US for Meta. Layoffs Made Me Scared of Losing My New Life.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rafa Maximo, 38, who lives in Miami and worked at Meta. The following has been edited for length and clarity. When I joined Facebook in 2018, it felt like a big deal. I lived in Brazil at the time, where there were fewer opportunities at such … Read more