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Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information : Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch   —  Elon Musk intends to bypass the power supply chain for AI data centers in a way others assumed was impossible, by making highly complex components himself.

A waitress running for Congress in Wisconsin's third district was on the payroll of two left-leaning organizations with ties to billionaire investor George Soros' Open Society Foundation . Rebecca Cooke has portrayed herself as a working-class outsider, touting her experience as a waitress, small-business owner and nonprofit leader raised on a dairy farm. But a personal financial disclosure released two days after Wisconsin’s Aug. 13 primary shows she received more than $5,000 apiece for work with Third Way and the Pipeline Fund, two left-leaning organizations with financial ties to George Soros’ Open Society network. The Open Society network awarded $1 million to Third Way’s nonprofit research arm between 2023 and 2024, while the Pipeline Fund received $1.4 million directly from the Open Society Action Fund in 2024. Through the Open Society Foundation, which serves as the umbrella organization for Soros' philanthropy network, Soros has distributed tens of millions of dolla...

@claudedevs : Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost   —  Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.

Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business : Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation   —  The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help Owner develop AI agents for independent restaurants.  —  Rob Lehman (Owner president and COO) …

The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday over laws allowing illegal immigrants to receive financial benefits offered to state residents, including in-state tuition, state grants and state-funded student loans. The Justice Department argued that laws in Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona allowing illegal immigrants to receive benefits are in violation of a federal law that states an illegal immigrant is ineligible to receive higher education in-state benefits unless those same benefits are available to every U.S. student. "This is a simple matter of federal law: Colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens," Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a statement.  "This Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country." DOJ SUES NEW JERSEY OVER LAWS GIVING ILLEGAL...

Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg : Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft   —  Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt …