💀 “Quartz has published thousands of articles by Tolomia, who has no byline picture and no biography on the site, and no way to contact them via email. They appear to be a digital marketing expert from the Philippines.” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

💸 U.S. AI investments are set to hit $600B this year, or 2% of national output, according to a new Jefferies analysis.

AI spending in the coming years could top 3.6% of GDP, per a Columbia study.

That'd make it the largest building boom in U.S. history.

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Scoop: The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One today, which means the news outlet cannot fulfill its pool responsibilities. There's another show of solidarity in the works >>>
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EXXON v. EXXON: Climate litigation could impose "ruinous liability" on oil companies, Exxon told the Supreme Court.

But Exxon has also told investors it's unlikely the cases will harm the company.

"It's certainly deceptive," one expert said to me. subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

“.. Seoul had expressed its regret to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ‘that what was reported today went beyond what had been agreed,’ he said.”

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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”

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Nuclear Renaissance Update: Even the chairman of the nuclear energy industry's top lobby group isn't willing to build a new reactor. subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

Merchants of Doubt are going after extreme event attribution
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Anthropic doesn't need to disclose to investors the "existential risks to humanity" posed by its AI, @matt-levine.bsky.social says.

"If you kill everyone, there’ll be no one to sue you, so a 'we might kill everyone' risk factor is superfluous." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Billionaire who spent over $215 million to come in third in California’s gubernatorial primary has political advice for the clean energy industry washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/28/w...

Interesting details on how the Iowa steel deal got done.

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Conservative legal groups are weaponizing public records laws to harass and silence university scientists whose research might be used to target fossil fuel companies in court: www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Nvidia’s record $150 billion stock buyback plan is a bet by CEO Jensen Huang that he can fund huge swaths of the AI buildout while still rewarding his own shareholders.

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