Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
Thaw in shutdown talks raises senators' hopes for a deal next week
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Current Affairs • Oct 29, 2025
The Tuttle Twins Learn Incredibly Wrong History Lessons
Back in the plague year of 2020, the disreputable socialist magazine editor Nathan Robinson sent me a heavy box filled with heinous libertarian children’s books. The books follow the adventures of Emily and Ethan Tuttle as they learn conservative life lessons. I read many of these and wrote a very slightly critical review, and the Right actually took unusual notice. The Foundation for Economic Education, which pushes for more free-market instruction in schools, published a response that didn’t actually reply to the criticism but instead focused on the review boosting Tuttle Twins book sales. CATO, the great Koch-founded libertarian think tank, shared the story. Nathan observed that frequently “the Right has money, not arguments.”
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
Bipartisan Senate pair proposes repealing coffee tariffs
The bill would block additional tariffs on coffee imports from any country the US has normal trade relations with.
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
Elon Musk launches ‘anti-woke’ online encyclopedia powered by AI
Grokipedia, which suffered technical difficulties upon launch, runs on xAI's model Grok.
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
AI agents are getting a lobby group in DC
Imbue's Matt Boulos, a founding member of the organization, hopes to see agentic AI develop common protocols, much like the early web.
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
AWS' mega multistate AI data center is powering Anthropic's Claude
Unlike most massive AI clusters, which are in one building or close together, Amazon's Project Rainier is spread out across three states.
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wants to Christianize Silicon Valley with AI
Gelsinger has taken up a new job at Gloo, a company building chatbots and AI assistants for religious organizations.
Semafor • Oct 29, 2025
Nvidia’s Huang defends China tech talent at DC conference
At the company’s annual developers confab, Huang mentioned several times that half of the world’s AI researchers come from China.
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