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The Republican Party of Minnesota tossed its support behind Royce White, a former NBA player and Black Lives Matter protest leader turned GOP Senate candidate, in his bid to oust Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar . The state party's decision to back White came at the Minnesota GOP convention in St. Paul's RiverCentre on Saturday. White, a former professional basketball player, was introduced on stage at the convention by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon . White received 67% of the vote on the first ballot at Saturday's convention to receive an endorsement from the party to challenge Klobuchar, who has represented Minnesota in the upper chamber for nearly two decades. TRUMP PREDICTS 'JACKED UP' BIDEN AT UPCOMING DEBATES, BLASTS BIDENOMICS IN BATTLEGROUND SPEECH "I'm a 'We the People' guy through and through," White told Minnesota's Star Tribune on Saturday. White unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination to challenge "Squad" Rep. ...

Steven Levy / Wired : Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing   —  Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter.  The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there's plenty more disruption to come.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan branded former President Trump a racist, a sexist and a homophobe as he urged his own Labour Party to do more to "call him out." Ahead of the presidential election in November , the U.K.'s Labour Party appears to be working to strengthen its relationship with Republicans should Trump take back the White House. However, Khan, a fierce Trump critic, insists the party "shouldn’t be literally rolling out a red carpet for a state visit." Khan's remarks on the former president came after foreign affairs chief David Lammy appeared to extend an olive branch earlier this month while insisting Trump is "often misunderstood" when it comes to policy and "wants Europeans to do more to ensure a better defended Europe." LONDON MAYOR UNDER FIRE FOR REPORTEDLY SNUBBING QUEEN STATUE IN FAVOR OF ART CELEBRATING TRANS PROSTITUTES Rejecting Lammy's position, Khan told Politico, "I’m quite clear, I understand, on Trump. He...

Sean Hollister / The Verge : MSI Claw handheld review: more comfortable grips than ROG Ally or Legion Go but inexcusably bad performance and battery life, Windows holds back handheld gaming   —  Steer clear. … No one should buy an MSI Claw.  It's not technically broken: the first 7-inch Intel Core Ultra handheld gaming PC …

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. , criticized fellow Democrat from Pennsylvania, Sen. John Fetterman, on Friday after he made fun of a House markup that spiraled out of control.  A late night House Oversight markup for a resolution to hold Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress evolved into a shouting match on Thursday, which involved several representatives, including Ocasio-Cortez, and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas.  SEN DURBIN MULLS REVIVING TOOL THAT COULD STYMIE TRUMP NOMINEES IN ANOTHER TERM Fetterman, who has emerged as a top critic of his own party, likened the display in the House to "The Jerry Springer Show." The decades-long reality program is described on Apple TV as "Loaded with bleeped profanity and guests who aren't afraid to embarrass themselves on national TV, ‘Jerry Springer’ features a host who is the anti-Oprah, aiming his show squarely at viewers who rubberneck a...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries   —  Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday hammered President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., over blocked U.S. military aid for Israel with the House expected to vote on a bill to force bomb deliveries to the Jewish state amid its war against Hamas. On the steps of the Capitol, Johnson also drew a parallel to Biden's decision earlier Thursday to assert executive privilege to block House committees from obtaining subpoenaed audio recordings of his interview with former special counsel Robert Hur over classified documents found in the president's possession.  "Rather than defend our closest ally at war, President Biden is using his authority to defend himself politically," Johnson said.  " Just as President Biden defies the will of Congress with his use of executive privilege, he is brazenly doing so by withholding congressionally mandated aid. Just last month, Sen. Chuck Schumer declared from the Senate floor — this is his quote, 'Th...