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Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthr…

Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million
OpenAI is Microsoft’s most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoft’s cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAI’s archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropic’s top customers and was ...

Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm. We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says.

Das sieht schon sehr gut aus, aber es fehlen noch 20.000 bis zum Jahresende. Langsam ist es Zeit, die Spenden zu spenden, damit sie dieses Jahr noch zählen!
Für eine linke Tageszeitung:
https://genossenschaft.nd-aktuell.de/spenden
Oder gleich ein Abo, das gibt's schon …

#Antifa #BlockaDO hat ein neues Spendenkonto. Ihr wisst, was zu tun ist! https://blockado.info/2025/11/15/spend

FYI, the closing date for submitting comments on the US Department of Education’s plans to prioritize "patriotic education" in its discretionary grant programs is this Friday, October 17. The American Historical Association has an excellent resource to help folks weigh in! https://www.

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/app-…

App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B | TechCrunch
Global app downloads were down, but consumer spending was up to nearly $156B in 2025.

Federal Lawmakers Are Spending Big Money on Personal Security (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/money/campaign-fec-filing-personal-security-spending
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p2#a251016p2

Money is power, and the founders of this country feared that a president would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the government uses the federal Treasury.
President Trump, however, has tried to take Congress’s constitutional power and make it his own.
He has repeatedly ignored laws passed by the House and the Senate to spend money, or not spend it,
based on his whims and agenda.
He has violated the law at least six times,
according to the Governm…

Opinion | Trump’s Spending Abuses Are Out of Control. He Shouldn’t Have That Power in the First Place.
Trump’s actions should alarm anybody who shares the American founders’ suspicion of centralized power.

Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-202…

Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026 – Report
Streamer content spend will top $100B in 2026, an Ampere Analysis report has said, with big spend on 'Stranger Things' and sports strategies.

What would you do if the federal government wanted you in jail and Jamie Dimon was paying your legal bills?
Here’s what Charlie Javice did:
She spent money on luxury hotel upgrades, extravagant meals and cellulite butter, a personal care product that some people use to treat their skin, as a lawyer for the bank said in a hearing on Friday.
Then, she sent the receipts to the bank.
All told, Ms. Javice has spent more than $60 million — and counting — on her defense, acco…

JPMorgan Had to Pay for Charlie Javice’s Legal Fees — and Her Restaurant Bills
When prosecutors accused Charlie Javice of fraud, JPMorgan was forced to pay for her defense. The bank is not happy about her “shocking” spending.