The data suggests, perhaps unsurprisingly, that a huge portion of longform posts on LinkedIn and X’s new article format are fully AI-generated or AI-assisted (meaning drafted, edited, or rewritten by AI with some human elements). Forty percent of longform LinkedIn posts analyzed in the data were fully AI-written; a quarter of X articles were fully AI written, but another 23 percent of X articles were AI-assisted, the company said. It intuitively makes sense that longer form content is more likely to be AI-generated, because people usually won’t bother to AI-generate a few word response or a pithy comment on a quote tweet, for example. AI is also famously verbose, meaning AI-generated content is more likely to show up in longer posts.

That moment, insignificant, was close to thirty years ago, and yet it’s one that I find myself thinking about often, muttering, “Aaah, the machinations of life” whenever I’m logistically challenged, or in an equally absurd situation of my own making. Such as two weeks ago, when I was half-way through my daily walk, carrying a backpack stuffed with books in extreme heat, to “train my body” and invest it with a sense of heroism, and I became the target for a cloud of deer-flies, so thick, so persistent to use my blood as an incubator, that I had to start running, swatting wildly at my head with my big floppy hat, hitting myself so firmly that I set my ears ringing until the next day. 

“The future I want,” Guo told me, “is not a single company with an all-powerful model that consumes society faster than we know what to do with.” It is a feeling increasingly shared. The labs raised the price of tokens this year, in some cases a hundredfold, and their customers have begun to revolt. They do not want to build on another company’s model—paying it, feeding it their data, training it, in effect, to one day build the thing they have built. Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, went on CNBC and described his enterprise clients as livid. “The jig is up,” he said. A founder in Guo’s own portfolio put it more plainly. He didn’t want to spend his life drinking Anthropic and OpenAI’s water.

Nicaragua’s leftist president, Daniel Ortega, announced plans to officially abolish elections rather than bother to hold another sham poll – like the one he oversaw in 2021 – when elections are due next year.

…One engineer told me that the whole situation feels like the movie, The Hunger Games, when tributes are randomly selected and then removed from their environment, to something completely different.

The trial lawyers earn a huge amount litigating ordinary auto accidents: annual US auto insurance payouts (liability + PIP/MedPay) are on the order of $180–220bn and trial lawyers are very eager to retain the right to sue car manufacturers for product liability. In my view, product liability isn’t useful as a safety device in this field. Instead, the solution is simple. Every car should be required to be insured, regardless of driver. Indeed, Waymo vehicles are already insured at $5m liability coverage per vehicle, far higher levels than most human drivers are covered.

Insiders expect a new electric Q2 crossover in 2026 and the following year an all-electric A3 replacement (to be badged A2, under Audi’s new naming convention, where odd numbers have engines and evens are all electric).

One payment particularly caught my attention. Hong’s campaign paid Milwaukee creative agency Unfinished Legacy $38,000 during the first half of 2026 for media consulting. Unlike traditional political consulting firms, Unfinished Legacy built its reputation through branding, photography, creative direction and visual storytelling. Campaign finance reports don’t reveal exactly what work was produced. Perhaps it is just really stylized campaign swag. But this expenditure fits the vibe she’s building. The reports do reveal that Hong’s campaign devoted significant resources to creative branding alongside organizing infrastructure. That combination is notable. Build the technology. Build the brand. Connect every interaction. Repeat.

“To the laptop, Watson!” Turns out that the first budget in 2018 that Mayor Carter inherited from Mayor Coleman was $577 million. So, in 10 years St. Paul’s budget will have almost doubled.

Ford’s European strategy? Team up. First Volkswagen. Now Geely.

Want less opportunity? Vote Democrat in November. It’s that simple.

Tucked inside her ten separate whistleblower complaints, MPR notes, is the allegation that the team working on MAYA knew the tool had an error rate as high as 67 percent. Eto alleges that instead of flagging that horrifying number, MAYA staffers tried to hide it.

Plain and aggregated search results such as URLs, snippets, and factual index data, are publicly accessible facts and are not “works protected under the Copyright Act.” The judge dismissed these claims without leave to amend, ruling that Google cannot use copyright law to block scraping of uncopyrighted search result data.

By now, we were deep in another plague of modern Britain: the toxic, absorbing, quasi-judicial, witch-hunt-friendly HR procedure. Spurred on by her furious parents, Letby took out a grievance against the consultants. She won comprehensively. The consultants were found to have bullied her with their allegations and ordered to apologise. HR actions against the consultantswere due to begin on the day they took their concerns to Cheshire Police.

…..that public opinion does not really matter. Various speakers spoke about the importance of explaining foreign policy to Americans in order to change their views, repeating the old argument that the primary reason U.S. foreign policy is unpopular is because the people affected by it simply don’t understand.

Evan Barker raised $50m for the Democrats before abandoning them in 2024. Now she’s written a book damning the party that lost middle America.

Approximately 206 billion miles are driven in the world each week. This estimate comes from global calculations showing that roughly 1.3 billion vehicles log an estimated 10.7 trillion total miles every year.

“It’s a gain,” said Maureen Smith, the Green Bay Packers’ chief financial officer. “It is on the balance sheet — our 1/32nd share of this investment. In addition, any gains or losses of that entity flows through our non-operating income. So that would reflect the ESPN deal and any other gains or losses that happen within that investment entity.”

Among his most famous designs is “the petal house,” which the San Francisco Chronicle’s Dave Weinstein described as follows: “A petal house has a flat roof with broad overhangs that wrap around the entire house except at the corners, where the overhangs disappear,” resulting in a roof shaped like a series of petals (see Brooks’ famous Petal House in Napa). The other two forms Brooks worked with were the pyramid and the tower. In every case, Weinstein wrote in his profile on Brooks, each building was “an experiment” — but not one without an artistic commitment.