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Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In the races where their money could actually make a difference, nearly two-thirds of it backed candidates who lost. You wouldn’t know it from what the industries are saying. New issue: https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-ai-lost-the-midterms/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

OpenAI- and a16z-linked Leading the Future spent $8.2M defeating “AI safety” candidate Alex Bores in NY-12, only for him to lose to a candidate with a similar platform. Backlash from AI’s intervention in that race was likely why they backed off in the general election. On the other side was the Anthropic-linked “AI safety” Public First PAC network, which claimed a “crushing blow” to the “anti-regulation” PACs. But of the $29.2 million they spent, only about $10.9 million ended up helping winning candidates (37%). #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

Despite the crypto industry’s public claims of widespread public support, their admakers clearly understand that being “pro-crypto” is not a winning message. Out of the 57 ads I tracked from crypto super PACs, only 3 mentioned crypto (obliquely). AI-focused super PACs were more willing to mention their industry, but not in a good way. Most mentions came from “AI safety” PACs warning about the harms of AI, or from Leading the Future bashing Alex Bores for his history in the tech sector. https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/analysis/ads/library #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

Most crypto and AI ads avoided mentioning their industries at all, instead telling voters what they thought they’d want to hear. One “AI safety” PAC network ran “remove the illegals, seal the border” ads for a Republican and “overhaul ICE” ads for a Democrat a few hours away. #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

AI and crypto both declared victory, despite their objectively poor performance. Both have vowed to spend heavily in 2028, and are still hoping to intimidate lawmakers with the dominance they failed to demonstrate. But before then, AI and crypto will both have to try to backtrack on their strong rightward turn over the past few years, lobbying a Democratic Congress. More on that pivot coming soon. #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

Anthropic is spending $3.4 billion on natural gas turbines to avoid the AI power crisis https://www.techradar.com/pro/anthropic-is-spending-usd3-4-billion-on-natural-gas-turbines-to-avoid-the-ai-power-crisis-caterpillar-generators-capable-of-producing-up-to-1-7-gigawatts-of-electricity-could-power-the-next-generation-of-claude #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

Jackbox Games isn't interested in AI development: 'All that is done by people, and we have no intention of changing that' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-development/jackbox-games-isnt-interested-in-ai-development-all-that-is-done-by-people-and-we-have-no-intention-of-changing-that/ #Gaming #GameDev #ArtificialIntelligence

Jesse Eisenberg Says He 'Experiments With AI' Just to Make Sure It's Not 'Good at Writing' Yet https://www.ign.com/articles/jesse-eisenberg-says-he-experiments-with-ai-just-to-make-sure-its-not-good-at-writing-yet #Gaming #ArtificialIntelligence #Entertainment

I let Gemini handle my Docs, Sheets, and PDFs for a week; there's one major catch https://www.androidpolice.com/i-let-gemini-handle-my-documents-spreadsheets-pdf-week-one-major-catch/ #Tech #Productivity #ArtificialIntelligence

NEW: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers. ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry. https://www.propublica.org/article/burgum-public-land-data-centers-investments?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #PublicLands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Government #Ethics #Utah #Nevada

Beats watching them get hammered on $10K bottles of booze while they piss away our ecosystem. https://www.theverge.com/policy/1027430/democratic-control-congress-tech-policy #artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #technology #tech #robotics #innovation

Read an interesting quote today, by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1976. He coded Eliza… "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." Eliza was a simple piece of software compared to today's AI. 😓 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #enshittification

Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown. https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #artificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #midterms

Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought. Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter

Brookfield targets $27 billion AI data center at power station. Energy firm Drax surges 8% https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/03/brookfield-ai-data-center-yorkshire-drax.html #Finance #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

🎮 Anthropic adds rule to stop Claude Code recreating existing games Anthropic has updated its AI coding tool Claude Code so it stops building clones of existing video games. 📰 Source: GamesIndustry.biz News Feed 🔗 Link: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/anthropic-adds-rule-to-stop-claude-code-recreating-existing-games #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Gaming

Big tech lost $3.7 trillion in market value in October. Here’s why Close to $4 trillion was wiped off the market value of the world’s most profitable technology companies in… #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #Technology

I gave Gemini my cluttered Mac Downloads folder; it sorted files the way I actually search https://www.androidpolice.com/i-gave-gemini-cluttered-mac-downloads-folder-sorted-files-i-search/ #Tech #Productivity #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Sam Altman Thinks Your PC Is Wasting Precious RAM "Looks like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to own all the computing resources and rent out terminals to the world as a way of propping up his business plan, now that debt-ridden AI companies are teete... 📰 Source: Slashdot 🔗 Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/30/2017206/sam-altman-thinks-your-pc-is-wasting-precious-ram?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

FrAInkenstein. Cartoon (in the spirit of Halloween) for Dutch newspaper Trouw. #AIslop #ArtificialIntelligence #Frankenstein