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President Biden's approval rating has hit an all-time low, and he trails former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head 2024 matchup. Trump leads Biden 47% to 43% in a hypothetical ballot between only those two candidates and trails 37% to 31% in a hypothetical ballot with five independent candidates, according to the results of a Wall Street Journal poll released Saturday. The president's sagging numbers against Trump also come as voters gave Biden low approval marks, including only 23% of respondents saying Biden's policies have helped them personally, compared to 53% who say they have been hurt by the president's policies.  About half of respondents said they were helped by Trump's policies when he was president, and only 37% said the former president's policies harmed them. DEMOCRATIC ANALYSTS SOUND ALARM ON MORE 'GRIM' BIDEN POLLING SHOWING DIMINISHING SUPPORT IN KEY VOTER GROUPS Biden's overall job performance garnered only...

Erik Hoel / The Intrinsic Perspective : A bear case for the AI industry, as the sectors it seems to be able to disrupt so far, like writing, digital art, and programming help, are not very lucrative   —  Gemini and the supply paradox of AI  —  Another day, another huge new AI model revealed.  This time it's Google's Gemini.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) published to social media an open letter to the incoming president of Ohio State University, urging the new administrator to abandon "diversity, equity and inclusion" mandates. Vance, an alum of Ohio State, accused the school of using racial justice rhetoric to mask "racial hatred" in its hiring of personnel and curricula.  "Today I wrote to the leadership of Ohio State, a university I love, to ask about the troubling rise of racial prejudice on campus," Vance said of the letter on social media. "If universities keep pushing racial hatred, euphemistically called DEI, we need to look at their funding." JD VANCE IN LETTER TO BIDEN ADMIN ACCUSES WAPO WRITER OF ENCOURAGING 'OPEN REBELLION' AGAINST US "I write to express frustration with the culture at my alma mater, The Ohio State University, and to understand how that culture might change once you become its president," the senator's letter reads....

Mark C. Scarsi, a Trump-appointed judge, is presiding over Hunter Biden's most recent federal indictment on tax evasion charges. He currently serves as the U.S. district judge for the Central District of California.  Scarsi was selected at random to oversee the case against Biden, which includes nine new charges alleging a "four-year scheme," when he did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports. HUNTER BIDEN FACES NEW INDICTMENT IN CALIFORNIA The charges break down to three felonies and six misdemeanors centered around $1.4 million in owed taxes that were since paid. Scarsi was confirmed by the Senate in 2020 after being nominated by former President Trump.  He spent most of his career on civil litigation "with an emphasis on intellectual property," according to his bio on California's district court website, and has represented Fortune 100 companies such as Apple and Google.  FROM SEX CLUB...

Stanford University on Friday issued a statement condemning calls for Jewish genocide after presidents of other Ivy League schools shocked the nation with their Congressional testimony regarding antisemitism on campus. "In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples," the school posted on X. "That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university." The statement comes as the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) are reeling from backlash to their remarks before lawmakers earlier this week. On Tuesday, the universities' presidents were summoned to Capitol Hill to give testimony about rising antisemitism on their campuses before the House Education and Workforce Committee. HOUSE REPS ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATION INTO HARVARD, MIT, UPENN A...

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg : Microsoft agrees to convert 77 TCWGlobal contract staff at ZeniMax into unionized employees, as part of negotiations with CWA-affiliated ZeniMax Workers United   —  - Move expands organized labor's foothold at software giant  — As direct employees, staffers will also receive raises, perks

FIRST ON FOX: After months of holding military promotions over the Pentagon's abortion policy, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., relented this week amid growing calls from lawmakers – including some in his party – to drop them. He blamed Democrat senators for not coming to the table to negotiate. "I couldn't get anybody to negotiate," Tuberville told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "Democrats cared nothing about negotiating, and they wanted to stick by the unlawful executive order." Tuberville released all holds except about a dozen four-star generals, which he said he'll likely vote for when they're brought to the floor.  The Alabama Republican's change of tune comes as a Democrat-led effort to change Senate rules to allow hundreds of promotions to proceed without voting individually was gaining momentum from lawmakers, including some in his own party.  "I hated to drop the holds, but I didn't want them to change the rules in the Sena...