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‘Mike Rogers Is Watching You’: New Ad Blitz From Abdul El-Sayed Attacks Surveillance Support

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate in the Michigan Senate race, launched a new ad blitz on Tuesday attacking his opponent Mike Rogers for helping expand the government’s mass surveillance powers while he was in Congress.

The paid digital video and billboard ads mark a final-stretch effort ahead of the midterm elections to pin bipartisan voter anxieties about privacy concerns, recently spurred by Flock cameras, onto Rogers.

The video from the El-Sayed campaign intersperses clips of Rogers praising the Patriot Act of 2001, which, in addition to expanding law enforcement powers, also allowed the collection of Americans' telephone data without a warrant after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Rogers’ career is dotted with support for government surveillance over the years, including in 2011, when Rogers introduced a bill that would have allowed companies to share emails with the NSA. (However, in 2014, Rogers introduced a bill that would have...

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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming

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Meta says its new Muse model has reached the AI frontier

Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act. Meta has released Muse Wonder, the most capable model

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OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab

OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency. OpenAI is adding 200 jobs in Dublin and building an applied

AMD puts 32,768 CPU cores in a rack built for AI agents

AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt. AMD has published a rack blueprint for

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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

Meta says its new Muse model has reached the AI frontier

OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab

AMD puts 32,768 CPU cores in a rack built for AI agents