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A profile of Pablo Torre, whose podcast "Pablo Torre Finds Out" became a 2025 phenomenon for aggressive reporting that uncovered seismic stories in US sports (Ben Strauss/Washington Post)

Pablo Torre pushes buttons — and boundaries — to expose sports secrets
With scoops from the NFL, NBA and beyond, Torre’s hit show — and the way he makes it — is ruffling feathers across the sports landscape.

Trump Pushes for 'Reverse Migration' as He Seeks to Widen Crackdown (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pushes-for-reverse-migration-as-he-seeks-to-widen-crackdown-9a131da3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p57#a251128p57

Trying to add credit-based flow control to a high performance multithreaded socket application written in C# that pushes close to 10 Gbps of data over a TCP stream.
I don't know C#.
This will be fun.

A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory,
according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.
The study outlined two military and economic scenarios for Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine
and highlighted the choices available to Europe as the United States pushes a peace plan that may be unfavorable to Ukraine and Europe as a whole.

Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds
A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.

😞
▶️ Xbox Is Over, Now We Know Who Is Responsible - Bellular News
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-vYhK0M7pg&si=dymFO6OnAkdFWJFc
☑️ Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins - Bloomberg

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
OLD MAN: [Virtually inaudible] A fool knows everything and nothing. [Dies]
FOOL: He's dead! [pushes Blake away and sings over the body] I sing you of all the wise charls, I sing you of all that, Your life, your death, Brought honour to the tents...

Exclusive: Ukraine pushes for flexibility in using Russian-frozen-asset loan to buy US weapons if needed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/exclusive-ukraine-pushes-for-flexibility.html

Not impressed. $11k is a lot to pay for some place to stuff your dirty kleenix
TikTok Shop Pushes Into Luxury Retail With $11,000 Handbags | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/tiktok-shop-pushes-into-luxury-retail-with-11000-handbags

Something is still borked with my IPC. It seems like a significant percentage of cross-core log messages step on others and never get sent.

Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees. Experts say many are already in place (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-washington-shooting-suspect-afghan-national-kabul-aac0e1d5117d9b7aaa8ee12051a7b324
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p68#a251128p68

Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever as US pushes for peace deal (Olga Ivshina/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n922dnw7o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p27#a251230p27

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

Richie Incognito Pushes Raiders to Fire One More Key Assistant Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brennan-carroll-fire-richie-incognito/?adt_ei=[email]

This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo:
Gregory Bovino’s Border Patrol,
which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascist feverdream.
https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/american-gestapo-gregory-bovinos-border-patrol

Scoop: GOP senator pushes Vance for help on Trump
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/vance-trump-senate-filibuster-blue-slips

#TIL we were supposed to shout at AI.
https://www.robert-glaser.de/prompts-as-programs-in-gpt-5/

The End of Shouting: Prompts as Programs in GPT-5
Why does a prompt that works brilliantly with Claude suddenly break on GPT-5? And since when do we have to write prompts like rule-based programs? How do we enforce “creativity” when Marketing pushes for it? The answer is a fundamental paradigm shift: GPT-5 with reasoning (GPT-5 Thinking) follows instructions with

White House fires commission charged with advising the president on design as Trump pushes construction projects (Samantha Waldenberg/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/trump-fine-arts-commission-firings
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p6#a251029p6

TikTok Shop expands into luxury retail, offering items such as Hermes' $11,000 handbags, primarily sold by secondhand resellers using AI to verify authenticity (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

hm. i could easily write a tool that pushes a Docker image to any git-pages server

That government so staunchly supported by ours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/itamar-ben-gvir-wears-noose-pendant-parliament-he-pushes-death-penalty

Israel's Ben Gvir wears noose pendant as he pushes death penalty bill for Palestinians
National security minister is supporting a legislation that would allow death sentences for Palestinian prisoners

Eagles 4 straight tush pushes lead to touchdown vs. Giants, frustrate viewers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6705271/2025/10/09/eagles-giants-four-straight-tush-pushes/

🪏 Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/copper-rush-pushes-vale-to-ramp-up-mining-near-amazonian-protected-areas/

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas
The metal needed in electric cars and solar panels comes with a high cost for Amazonian communities.

I've always been a critic of "Stoicism for the military" events and talks. I think the military often abuses a philosophy whose core aspects include cosmopolitanism and that pushes people to do the right thing, especially against power.
But I am ready to be proved wrong by all the guys filling Ryan Holiday's rooms, standing up for "justice" against bombing fishermen in the Caribbean.
Any minute now.

Sources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end (John Buckley/Capital Brief)
https://www.capitalbrief.co…

Behind closed doors, Trump administration pushes back on Labor’s streaming quotas
The US Embassy has directly raised concerns about the policy in Canberra, raising the stakes for the Albanese government as it pursues an aggressive tech reform agenda.

There is no US city that more effectively displays the importance of immigrants to the story of America than San Francisco.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/national-guard-deployment-immigration-raids-10-23-25-hnk

Sembcorp just made a major move in India's renewable energy space.
The company acquired a 300 MW solar project in Rajasthan that's already connected to the grid and backed by a 25-year power purchase agreement. This pushes their India renewable capacity past 7.6 GW and their global portfolio to 20.2 GW.

Sembcorp completes acquisition of 300 MW solar project in India
Sembcorp Industries has closed a full buyout of a grid-connected solar facility in western India, adding a long-term contracted 300 MW asset to its renewable energy operations in the country.

Why in the hell is the state of Texas so hellbent on killing Robert Roberson?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2025/11/11/state-pushes-back-on-evidentiary-hearing-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/<…

Robert Roberson update: State fights evidentiary hearing call
Robert Roberson’s legal team has long sought to present a deluge of evidence compiled since his 2003 capital murder trial that they say will prove his...

Scoop: GOP senator pushes Vance for help on Trump (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/vance-trump-senate-filibuster-blue-slips
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p121#a251028p121

🎶 Tu-tu-du-du Max Verstappen 🎵

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

It's also interesting that we're only tangentially making the connection between shit social media and fascism. What we are not saying is that control of social space *is* a form of governance. Humans have the right to free social spaces, both physical and digital.
When we think about social media as a system of control, as a government, we see that capitalist social media results in incredibly abusive dictatorships. These dictatorships exist solely to exploit their citizens, extracting both labor and attention, for the gain of a few. They manipulate their citizens to keep them locked in. It's not a coincidence that these systems algorithmically promote fascist ideology. They are themselves a type of fascist government that pushes fascism into the physical space.

Staten Island Leader Pushes Secession Over Mamdani - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/staten-island-leader-pushes-secession-over-mamdani/

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-wikipedia-competitor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p45#a251028p45

"is there a way to encourage voters to calm down, slow down and think twice, in an information environment that pushes us all to hurry up and feel?"
How populism became popular - https://on.ft.com/4nT3lyP via @FT

Travis Kelce pushes back on retirement talk, wants to focus on Chiefs' remaining games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6905047/2025/12/19/travis-kelce-retirement-comments-chiefs/

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association
The federal government wants a bigger slice of the semiconductor pie through patents.

TikTok Shop expands into luxury retail, offering items such as Hermes' $11,000 handbags, primarily sold by secondhand resellers using AI to verify authenticity (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback' as European Commission pushes data protection changes https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback

I've always been a critic of "Stoicism for the military" events and talks. I think the military often abuses a philosophy whose core aspects include cosmopolitanism and that pushes people to do the right thing, especially against power.
But I am ready to be proved wrong by all the guys filling Ryan Holiday's rooms, standing up for "justice" against bombing fishermen in the Caribbean.
Any minute now.

If you're using #ForgeJo and are experiencing the error
`fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly` when doing "git push", the problem is the client buffer size for HTTP pushes. In my case I have just fixed it by doing the following:
`$ git config http.postBuffer 157286400`
I've found the solution here:

Also, it's always interesting to see how things are designed and go together.
Both of these have a mechanism where when you slide the electronics into the cylinder that putting the set screw in place pushes the PCB up so the button goes into the hold of the cylinder.
I thought that was a clever design choice!
One of them is really nice and the other is really cheap. (The good one is a SNV4 PRO.)

TikTok pushes merchants to use a new ad-buying tool that promotes videos linking to TikTok Shop rather than merchants' own sites, frustrating some merchants (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-shops-new-…

TikTok Shop’s New Ad Policy Risks Alienating Merchants
As TikTok readies itself for the expected sale of its U.S. business to a new venture controlled by American investors, the company is trying to boost its commerce business, TikTok Shop. But the measures it has taken risk alienating merchants who sell on the shopping service. TikTok Shop in ...

#Drumpf Dream Scheme Team Ramping Up Pressure Points Day & Night On #GOP Members To Thwart A Vote To Release Contents Of Messy #MarALago Moments And Other Damning Deets Buried In

Trump Summons Lauren Boebert as He Pushes GOP to Block Epstein Vote
Representative Lauren Boebert, one of the Republicans pressing for more Epstein disclosures, was summoned for a meeting in the White House Situation Room.

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia,
over records related to the 2020 election,
escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s
false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.

Citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law,”
the lawsuit demands Georgia election officials turn over
“all used a…

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts.

Hithium just made a bold move into long-duration energy storage with three major launches: a massive 1,300Ah battery cell, a 6.9 MW/55.2 MWh system, and a lithium-sodium hybrid specifically designed for power-hungry AI data centers.
The goal? Solve renewable energy's intermittency problem while meeting AI's exploding electricity demands.

Hithium pushes into long-duration storage and AI data centres with 1,300Ah cell, 6.9 MW/55.2 MWh system, and lithium-sodium hybrid
Chinese battery maker Hithium unveils 1300Ah cell, integrated long-duration system, and lithium-sodium LDES solution for AI data centers.

Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes English-language law ahead of Bad Bunny Super Bowl
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5541257-marjorie-greene-english-official-language/

Cassidy pushes his Obamacare plan. Democrats aren't biting. (Simon J. Levien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/cassidy-pushes-his-obamacare-plan-democrats-arent-biting-00659511
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p93#a251119p93

Zelensky strips tainted Odesa Mayor Trukhanov of Ukrainian citizenship, effectively pushes him out of office: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/zelensky-strips-tainted-odesa-mayor.html

Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% "accountability margins", or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it (Bloomberg)

«The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it. Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.»
An excellent read about how/why uni admin pushes the use of "AI" and the impact
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

🫓 Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
#optics

Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
Cameras are everywhere. For over two centuries, these devices have grown increasingly popular and proven to be so useful, they have become an indispensable part of modern life.

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

Trump takes aim at European climate law after killing UN shipping fee (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/trump-administration-pushes-europe-to-change-corporate-climate-law-00618140
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p64#a251023p64

Instagram pushes this to my Phone: "Do not miss xyz's Posts! Follow now!"
WHY????

A look at DeepSeek's rise in Africa, as China's lightweight, low-cost AI models make inroads into the continent via tech infrastructure built by Huawei and ZTE (Bloomberg)

People use fast, flat goal-directed simulation to reason about novel problems
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong, Mauricio Barba da Costa, Graham Todd, Adrian Weller, Samuel J. Cheyette, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11503

People use fast, flat goal-directed simulation to reason about novel problems
Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence, especially with a focus on expert-level or even super-human play. But real life also pushes human intelligence along a different frontier, requiring people to flexibly navigate decision-making problems that they have never thought about before. Here, we use novice gameplay to study how people make decisions and form judgments in new problem settings. We show that people are systemat…

As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a Say (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/europe/trump-ukraine-war-peace-plan-merz-macron-starmer.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p33#a251125p33

I think my BambuLab A1 mini really struggles with certain types of filament that are not thick enough, whether it's the old, two-year-old white PLA or the wood filament. With a little pressure, the extruder pushes it through the nozzle, but it doesn't do so continuously on its own. #3dprinting #3dprinter

Plan to kill 450,000 owls pushes past major obstacle
with Republicans both for and against
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/lawmakers-reject-bid-to-overturn-plan-to-cull-barred-owls-pa…

Plan to kill 450K owls pushes past major obstacle with Republicans both for and against
A plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save spotted owls overcame a major threat when senators this week failed to pass a Republican-led effort to keep it from happening.

The money's electronic, so it can be sent whether the gov't.'s open or not but (Vance): “in the midst of a shutdown we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”
JD Vance calls court order to fully fund SNAP 'absurd ruling'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5594443-vance-pushes-back-snap/

A profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/…

After Four Decades In Silicon Valley, This Engineer Is A New Billionaire Thanks To The AI Boom
Pure Storage’s low-key cofounder John Colgrove joins the three-comma club after signing a flashy deal with Meta amid increasing data storage demand.

Zelensky says Ukraine cannot cede territory as US pushes for compromise in the peace plan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/zelensky-says-ukraine-cannot-cede.html

Trouble in #Amazon MGM Studios Hollywood Paradise?
Studio announces change in title of new Hugh Jackman flick where he plays a shepherd that reads to sheep and pushes release date back from Thanksgiving 2025 to Mothers Day 2026

OPM pushes back on report DOGE dissolved ahead of schedule (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5620378-trump-doge-commission-status/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p94#a251124p94

Gas stoves are filling millions of homes with hidden toxic air #environment

Gas stoves are filling millions of homes with hidden toxic air
Stanford researchers found that gas stoves expose Americans to surprisingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide—often matching or exceeding outdoor pollution. For millions, cooking alone pushes NO2 over long-term safety thresholds. Smaller homes, renters, and rural households face the highest concentrations. Cleaner cooking technologies could substantially reduce the risks.

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-cto-boston-dynamics-demis-hassabis-…

Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

Gas-loving Trump cedes electric car market to China – DW – 12/16/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/us-ev-rollback-pushes-chinese-automakers-ahead-favoring-oil-and-gas-fossil-fuel-powered-cars/a-75155303

For Raiders QB Geno Smith, Perception is Reality https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-chip-kelly-tennessee-titans

Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-the-earliest-human-made-fire-rewriting-evolutionary-history/

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500% in the past year and its stock jumped 765% in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/us-san…

"Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning."
AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/europe/germany-far-right-afd-russia-security-secrets.html

AFC West's collection of great coaches inspires Pete Carroll to get on track https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46859785/las-vegas-raiders-pete-carroll-afc-west-coaches-sean-payton-andy-reid-jim-harbaugh

Maryland Governor Pushes For Redistricting to Counter Trump Gerrymanders: 'Come Next November, We Will Have Fair Maps' (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/maryland-governor-pushes-for-redistricting-to-counter-trump-gerrymanders-come-next-november-we-will-have-fair-maps/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p86#a251104p86

"New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

At APEC, Xi Jinping proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization for global AI regulation; state media says it could be based in Shanghai (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-pushes-global-ai-body-apec-co…

Do it for Trump: Treasury pushes businesses, wealthy people to contribute to 'Trump Accounts' (Brian Faler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/20/treasury-hopes-to-juice-trump-accounts-with-appeals-to-philanthropists-corporations-00698179
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p34#a251220p34

MAGA Pushes Racist Cinnabon Worker's Fundraiser Past $100,000 (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/maga-pushes-racist-cinnabon-workers-fundraiser-past-100000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p133#a251208p133

Draft plans: EU is pushing for market regulator ESMA to get supervision and authorization powers over crypto firms, shifting oversight from national regulators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/eu…

Jaret Patterson's First TD in Four Years Gets Chargers to 30-Point Mark vs. Raiders https://www.chargers.com/video/jaret-patterson-highlight-touchdown-vs-raiders-week-13-205

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/shein-retail-store-paris-back…

Parisians Protest Shein’s First Physical Store
As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company’s presence in the country.

Sanders pushes for moratorium on AI data center construction (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5652830-concerns-ai-data-centers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p69#a251217p69

Senate voting on $901 billion defense bill that pushes Hegseth for boat strike video (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/defense-bill-boat-strikes-hegseth-a0886906eb50432c38a4d5bf08e6a719
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p71#a251217p71

A slowing wartime economy pushes the Kremlin to tap consumers for revenue (David Mchugh/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-economy-war-putin-vat-tax-e561969931082a65741f0161dfd946fa
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p3#a251116p3

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-super

Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools
As part of Meta's big bet on superintelligence, it's steering its AI teams to new tools like Vercel and GitHub, as revealed by internal memos.

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/dealbook/harvey-legal…

Harvey, a Maker of A.I. Legal Software, Raises $160 Million
The start-up is now valued at about $8 billion as it pushes to add new customers, including those outside law firms.

Senate pushes forward with boat strike probe as House pulls back (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/senate-boat-strike-defense-hegseth-00687115
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p105#a251211p105

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/venezuela-trump-qatar.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p167#a251008p167

U.S. pushes Zelensky for swift yes on peace plan: Ukrainian officials (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/zelensky-trump-ukraine-peace-plan-donbas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p113#a251208p113

Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/07/trump-groceries-food-cost-inflation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p60#a251207p60

Exclusive: House Freedom Caucus pushes for year-long stopgap funding (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/house-freedom-caucus-full-year-stopgap-spending-government-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p127#a251104p127

Luna pushes to force a vote banning congressional stock trading (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/02/congress/anna-paulina-luna-congressional-stock-trading-ban-00673180
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p108#a251202p108

New trade deal pushes UK to increase drug spending to avoid Trump tariffs (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5628347-trump-tariffs-uk-trade-deal-drugs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p72#a251201p72