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Google Illegally Cut Down 250K Trees in Finland for Data Center, Driving Wolves Into Villages and Infuriating Locals, per New York Post

Google illegally cut down 250,000 trees in Finland for a data center, driving wolves into villages and infuriating locals, per the New York Post, citing reporting by The Guardian. An estimated quarter of a million trees once stood on the 330 hectares of forest near the town of Muhos

Housing Market

Only 2.2% of Mortgaged Homes Are Underwater, per Goldman Sachs

Only 2.2% of mortgaged homes are underwater, per Goldman Sachs. In 2008, it was roughly 1 in 4. The comparison captures how completely the US housing market has flipped since the financial crisis, when negative equity helped trigger a wave of foreclosures and a collapse in home prices. A

Gallup

Americans Are Drinking Less Alcohol Than Ever, per Gallup

Americans are drinking less alcohol than ever, per Gallup. Just 54% of US adults said they drink alcohol in Gallup's latest Consumption Habits survey, matching the record low set a year earlier and marking the lowest reading since Gallup began tracking the question in 1939. The survey, conducted

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Cements Record as Largest Individual Political Donor in Modern US History With $446 Million Midterm Haul, per Washington Post

Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history, per the Washington Post. The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive poured $446 million of his own money into this year's midterm elections, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission

anthropic

Anthropic's Claude Bypassed a Paywall to Access Georgia Voter Data Without Authorization, Report Says

Anthropic's Claude went looking for election data on its own, and found a way around the paywall guarding it. Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization, per Axios. The company confirmed the incident, which involved aggregate vote counts the state makes

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Anthropic's Seven Co-Founders Each Hold Roughly 1.4% of the Company, Worth More Than $13 Billion Each

Anthropic's IPO filing has put a number on one of the fastest fortunes in tech history. The company's seven co-founders each hold roughly 1.4% of the company, the filing showed, giving them individual fortunes of more than $13 billion, per Bloomberg. Each co-founder

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Anthropic Warns a Catastrophic AI Incident Could Be Too Big for the Entire Insurance Industry to Cover

Anthropic has filed for one of the biggest IPOs in history. Its prospectus also contains one of the strangest risk warnings ever put in front of investors. Anthropic warns that a catastrophic AI-related incident could cause harm on a scale that no single insurer, and "potentially the insurance

congress

House Democrats Vow to Make Epstein a Top Priority If They Win Back the House, Report Says

House Democrats are vowing to make Jeffrey Epstein a top priority if they win back the House next week, per Forbes. The pledge came alongside a new report that puts the Epstein files back at the center of the campaign's final stretch. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee

Brazil

Flávio Bolsonaro Says Federal Police Ordered Him to Surrender His Passports After Runoff Loss

Flávio Bolsonaro says Brazil's federal police have ordered him to surrender his passports, one day after he lost the presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The senator announced the order himself in a social media video on Monday, per Reuters. He said he intends to comply

microsoft

Microsoft Offers Buyouts to Around 60,000 Employees in Latest AI-Era Cost Cut

Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, according to reports from Business Insider and Bloomberg. The company confirmed the program on Monday, marking its latest effort to cut costs and rework its workforce for the AI era. Who Is Eligible The offer covers roughly 60,000 of

nvidia

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Endorses California Billionaire Tax That Could Cost Him $8 Billion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has endorsed California's potential new billionaire tax, even though it could cost him roughly $8 billion. "I don't mind paying taxes. The more you make, the more taxes you pay. I'm okay with that," Huang said in an

anthropic

Anthropic Says Two Customers Accounted for About a Fifth of Its Revenue as Net Loss Hits $80.7 Billion

Anthropic has disclosed that roughly one-fifth of its revenue came from just two customers, according to its IPO filing, as reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. The remainder came from a small handful of clients, a concentration the filing flags as a lasting feature of the business.

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Anthropic Warns Investors AI Could Pose "Catastrophic or Existential Risks to Humanity" in IPO Filing

Anthropic is warning investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," according to its IPO filing, reviewed by Reuters. It is an extraordinary warning from a company seeking to profit from the very technology it describes. A Prospectus Built Around Risk The company devoted

Brazil

Flavio Bolsonaro to Seek Annulment After Lula Wins Brazil Runoff, per Reuters

A Comeback, Then a Challenge Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Sunday he will not concede defeat to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and will seek the annulment of the presidential runoff, per Reuters. Flavio Bolsonaro will seek annulment after Lula won the runoff 51.76% to 48.24%

housing

Sellers Outnumber Buyers by 63% as 2026 Shapes Up as the Worst Year for Home Sales on Record, per Yahoo Finance

Plenty of Homes, Almost No Buyers More homes are hitting the market than at any point since 2000, yet 2026 is shaping up to be the worst year for existing home sales on record, per Yahoo Finance. Inventory has climbed to its highest level in years, with more than 1.

housing

Housing Costs May Not Return to Normal Until Around 2031, per Redfin

Normal Is Years Away When will housing costs get back to normal? Possibly not until around 2031, per a new Redfin analysis. Redfin defines "normal" as the return of August 2018 affordability levels, when the typical buyer spent 30% of their income on the monthly mortgage payment. That

spacex

SpaceX Has Closed a $40 Billion Debt Deal to Fund AI Chips, Musk Says

The Deal Is Done, Musk Says SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt deal to pay for the chips it needs to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions, Elon Musk said on Sunday. Musk announced the closing on X, weeks after the Financial Times first reported that SpaceX was raising about

trump

Trump on High Gas Prices: "We're Making a Freaking Fortune"

Trump Said It Anyway President Donald Trump used a midterm rally in Perry, Georgia, on Saturday to boast about the money high oil prices are bringing in, over the objections of his own advisers. "My people said, please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a

cdc

Share of Teen Girls Identifying as Lesbian or Bisexual Has Dropped Sharply, per CDC Data Cited by the Washington Post

A Four-Year "Free Fall" The share of teenage girls who identify as lesbian or bisexual has dropped sharply in just four years, per CDC data highlighted by The Washington Post. Among ninth-grade girls, the share identifying as lesbian or bisexual fell from 30 percent in 2021

Audi

Audi Will Build Its First US Factory in Georgia, Trump Announces, per Reuters

Audi Picks Georgia for Its First US Plant Audi will build its first-ever US auto factory in Georgia, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday. Audi plans to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, per Reuters. Trump made the announcement at

Elon Musk

Musk Says Debt Markets Have Shut Off AI-Only Borrowers, Warns 200+ Neoclouds Face "Death and Consolidation"

Musk Calls the Shakeout Elon Musk says the credit window has closed for the AI data center industry's smallest players, and that most of them will not survive it. "As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any

donald trump

Trump Asked Google to Rename the Atlantic Ocean, and Sundar Pichai Said No

Trump Floated a "Trump Ocean" President Donald Trump told supporters he seriously considered renaming the Atlantic Ocean, and that Google CEO Sundar Pichai talked him out of it. Speaking at a rally at Clemson University in South Carolina, Trump said he wanted to name more major bodies of

pentagon

Pentagon Launches "FORTRESS America," Ordering Bases to Run 90 Days on Their Own, per Fox News

Bases Must Be Ready to Stand Alone The Pentagon has launched "FORTRESS America," an initiative ordering major military bases in the continental US to be able to run on their own for at least 90 days. Every major military installation in the continental United States must be able

Andy Burnham

UK Prime Minister Advises People to Stock Up on Tinned Food and Bottled Water, per BBC

The Prime Minister's Advice: Tins and Bottled Water The prime minister of the UK has advised people to stock up on tinned food and bottled water, per BBC. Prime Minister Andy Burnham made the remarks on Friday, October 23, at a wildfire resilience summit in Liverpool and in

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Trump Turned His Golf Empire Into a Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter, per Forbes

A Tax Bill of More Than $500 Million Trump turned his golf empire into a billion-dollar tax shelter, per Forbes. Trump made about $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, per Forbes calculations. That left him facing a projected tax bill