As they push to flip the House and capture the chamber's majority in this year's midterm elections, Democrats are facing a steeper hill to climb, thanks to two blockbuster court rulings. A Virginia Supreme Court decision last week that struck down the state's voter-passed congressional redistricting ballot measure, coupled with a ruling a week earlier by the Supreme Court to slash a key protection in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, were major setbacks for Democrats. The twin rulings gave President Donald Trump and Republicans a major boost in their high-stakes mid-decade redistricting battle with Democrats, giving the House GOP a bit of breathing room as it defends its razor-thin majority in the midterms. At stake is which party will control the House and the Senate during the final two years of Trump's second term in the White House. SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS DEFY TRUMP, TANK REDISTRICTING, FOR NOW The Virginia decision negated four more likely left-leaning congression...
Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on its partnership with OpenAI, including its original investments (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg : Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on its partnership with OpenAI, including its original investments — Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance …