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Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/insuretech-outmarket-…

Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round | TechCrunch
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.

The Trump administration will soon announce
sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards,
reversing ‌a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said ⁠Monday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in December
proposed significantly reducing fuel economy requirements
from model years 2022 to 2031,
requiring a fleetwide average 34.5 miles per gallon by 20…

'A government assessment for the new version of the legislation warned that poverty, poorer access to healthcare, lower-quality care and domestic abuse could lead to a “disproportionate numbers of ethnic minority people” opting to end their lives.'
Poverty, poor care and abuse could result in racialised assisted suicide, report shows | Morning Star

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Gemini 4 Argon has a 1M-token output limit, up from 64K for prior models; it initially costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-gemini-

Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can't keep up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The per-token price is low, but Argon burns through more than twice as many tokens per task as Astra. Select testers get access first, with the API and paid tiers following later.

Un train stationne Š Pereire vers Pont de Levallois – Bécon en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
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„Krone“ bei Übung - Purer Stress: So läuft Horror-Crash im Tunnel ab #News #Nachrichten

Once again, Donald Trump is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to do something that it does not have the authority to do.
And why?
Because he’s angry about something a journalist said on television.
Prior to the airing of Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, moderator Kristen Welker spoke with WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.
Welker pointed out that Trump is “going to loom large” over the upcoming midterm elections.
Then she accurately no…

Trump calls on the FCC to punish Kristen Welker — for accurate commentary - Poynter
He once again called on federal regulators to punish journalism he dislikes, despite the FCC having no authority to do so

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico
is pushing for one of Texas’ most important swing counties to
drop plans to close nearly a third of its polling places before November’s midterms.
Amid public outcry, the Commissioners Court for Tarrant County
— which contains Fort Worth and borders Dallas
— plans to hold a vote on Tuesday on whether to shutter 92 of the polling places used in the 2022 election,
many of which serve the city’s poorer and minori…

Talarico Protests as Texas Swing County Plans to Close 92 Polling Places | Common Dreams
​“The most powerful people in this county, the most powerful people in this country, don’t want us to be able to vote easily."

Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…