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On Wednesday morning, Americans awoke to the news that the Democrats had retaken both the House and the Senate. The next day, the stock market hemorrhaged $2.5 trillion.
The tech sector was hardest hit. Alphabet, Nvidia, and the major semiconductor companies shed billions.

Since late last year, a small but growing chorus of cybersecurity experts has been warning that AI models were pushing the internet toward a sort of cataclysm. Hospitals, banks, utilities, basically anything and everything connected to the web could be hacked.

Susie Wiles should have been untouchable. She’d been with President Trump since his first bid for the White House. She was one of the few people who’d stuck around after the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, when just about everyone else thought his political career was over. And as his chief of staff for the past two years, she was a stabilizing force in an administration that sorely needed one.

Look, I just want to say that if Nvidia CEO and reported spy-plot target Jensen Huang did get help from AI to write an apology email to his family and company about his affair (he’s said he uses AI to help write all of his first drafts), this might be the one use of AI that makes sense to me.

Thomas Massie is pushing the House to impeach Pete Hegseth, the Cabinet member most closely associated with the Iran war. The representative from Kentucky’s argument is that if Republicans like him don’t hold the secretary of defense accountable now for his various abuses of power, Democrats will in January. A vote in the House could come as soon as this evening.