WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights trillionaire Elon Musk’s overall influence on November’s elections.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-america-pac-is-spending-big-on-the-midterms-were-tracking-it-daily/
How many £7,500s does it take to buy a US manufactured warplane?
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending | Heat pumps | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/12/m…
This should be illegal...
"Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent"
And this too:
"The $366m in midterms spending represents about less than 0.04% of his net worth." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/1…
Philadelphia police say Anthropic informed them on Oct. 7 that one of its models submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder via a public web form on July 18 (6abc)
https://6abc.com/post/anthropic-ai-model-submitted-false-tip-…
33 Sekunden Photovoltaik-Förderung in Österreich
20 Millionen Euro Solar-Subvention waren binnen Sekunden vergeben. „Unter diesen Bedingungen wäre keine Förderung besser”, sagt die Branche.
https://www.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has called on Democratic leaders to ban super PAC spending from the party’s primaries
after AIPAC poured $32 million in the Michigan Senate primary race to defeat pro-Palestine Democrat Abdul El-Sayed
— and is now poised to support his Republican opponent.
Sanders made the demand in a mock letter, posted on social media on Sunday,
addressed to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Democratic National Commi…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million into a political nonprofit bankrolling ballot measures that could block California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires.
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on assets of California billionaires,
raising tens of billions for healthcare, education and food aid,
-- but competing measures 41 and 42 could override it.
The November showdown over taxing the ultra-rich has drawn national figures, powerful unions…