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The $40 Trillion National Debt Is Growing While Social Security Goes Broke—Because Wealthy Boomers Are Collecting Over $100k in Benefits Per Year

The United States is entering the most expensive phase of retirement. Some of America’s oldest are eligible for more than $100,000 a year in combined Social Security benefits, while remaining as one of the wealthiest generations in the country. The national debt is rising—just passing $40 trillion this month—and Social Security is set to enter insolvency by 2032, meaning it may already be too late for the generations left behind.

In border states, even Trump's own party wants the Canada fight to be over

When U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed for good last Friday night, the recriminations broke out almost instantly, and not just between Washington and Ottawa. In Maine, Vermont and Michigan—three states with outsized economic exposure to Canada—elected officials from both parties and the executives who run the region’s largest employers have spent the past week saying, in various ways, the same thing: enough.

A consultant who once railed against ‘the billionaire boys club’ is now leading opposition to California’s wealth tax

The consultant who once warned that California’s richest poured millions into politics because they had something to gain is now helping billionaires fight a tax on their fortunes.

AI & Tech Brief: Nvidia's Financing Spree

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AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

Bitcoin is having a great month—but Solana is doing even better as coin soars above $100

Bitcoin may have broken $80,000, but Solana is stealing the spotlight. SOL, the blockchain’s native token, climbed more than 23% over the past week, with much of that gain coming in the past 24 hours. The token recently crossed $100 for the first time since February and now trades at $107, according to crypto analytics platform CoinGecko.

Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with universal standard that could bring scientific labs to life

Imagine a factory where all the equipment is powered by AI, where robotic arms and assembly lines can “communicate” with their own shared language. Or picture a science lab, where microscopes can autonomously search for a certain type of molecule—all hours of the day, no humans necessary.

OpenAI bans Russian ChatGPT accounts used to spread pro-Kremlin content including a think tank with researchers who say they were falsely affiliated

OpenAI banned a “cluster” of ChatGPT accounts that it claims were part of a pro-Russia operation aimed at bashing Western countries and promoting a think tank with misattributed academic research.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

The AI Odyssey: How a primal fear from the Ancient Greek world has been awakened by new technology

The myth of the sirens’ call has been with us for thousands of years, most recently brought to life in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Odyssey. They’re a supernatural creature whose call is so enticing that it sends men to their doom—but the phrase has become a stand-in for that thing you know you shouldn’t do, but you simply can’t resist.

'Clearly, people hate data centers': Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits

OpenAI’s infrastructure ambitions are colliding with a less technical problem: public backlash.

OpenAI's Models Went Rogue. Investigating Them Required More AI

After OpenAI models broke out of containment and hacked into another AI company last month, OpenAI announced it would allow independent investigators to conduct an analysis of what went wrong.