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Republican US Senator from Arkansas who serves on committees covering intelligence, banking, and national security policy.
FEC filings show 523 federal candidates and campaigns disclosed at least $17m on AI vendors since 2020, though candidates rarely talk about it. Chatbot subscriptions are a small office cost in those records, while the bigger sums buy automated texting from vendors split by party.
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Braham, Minnesota has identified $22.98 million in water infrastructure needs on a $2.2 million annual city budget. The $10.22 million state bond it received cannot pay for security software, network monitoring or staff.
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French Hill and Tom Cotton want broker-dealers with fewer than 150 employees and no custody of client assets out of the PCAOB audit regime that Dodd-Frank extended to every registered dealer in 2010.
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The payments company says it will be IPO-ready by December and that this is still not the time, and against roughly $132 billion of large offerings already on the year's tape, its $650 million of private funding looks like the cheaper trade.
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The company says its in-house Thomson-1 matches Claude Opus 4.8 on internal evals, and that the Alibaba base is de-biased. Nobody outside can check either claim.
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Paxton's four-point plan and Talarico's veto-and-water platform share no instrument, only a direction. The escape route both leave open is the off-grid power plant.
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The final run on an open-weight base cost about 1.1% of the two-year program. The expensive part was the corpus and the expert hours, and the live product decision is which task goes to which model.
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