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Businesses still struggling with sea border, Stormont reports find
The studies, which look at the practical impacts of the Windsor Framework were commissioned by the Department for the Economy.
Lansing leaders meet to discuss how sports events can boost the regional economy
The Lansing Sports Commission held its first sports tourism summit
Lansing Sports Commission holds sports tourism summit to boost local economy
Lansing leaders met Thursday to discuss how sports events can boost the regional economy.
Lansing Sports Commission holds sports tourism summit to boost local economy
Lansing leaders met Thursday to discuss how sports events can boost the regional economy.
Small Business Insider: Election Response, Entrepreneurial Surge, Policy Update & More - Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
● Election Results Amplify Call to Address High Costs and Economic Uncertainty ● Kerrigan in the DC Journal: America’s Innovation Economy Runs on Small Business – Why Protecting Bayh-Dole Matters ● Featured Interview on BRN: Kerrigan on CHOICE Arrangements ● ICYMI: America’s Entrepreneurship Surge Continues – Nearly 5 Million Business Applications Filed Through September ● […]
Lance Turner named communications director at State Chamber
The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas announced the hiring of Lance Turner as director of communications. Turner will oversee the State Chamber/AIA’s communications strategy, including digital and...
Vance Breaks With Trump and Steps Into Political Abyss | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Nov. 5
Plus, Democrats’ disciplined messaging on the economy paid off on Election Day, and how midterm results threaten America’s AI boom.
Inflation pushes young voters to Democrats in 2026 midterms
Younger Americans are worried about the economy and high prices. They also swung Democrat in the midterms.
Commentary: Why aren’t employers hiring right now?
The economy is growing strongly, so why is nobody hiring? The latest data show growth hit 3.4% in the third quarter of this year, faster than expected. Yet during that
The U.S. spent 50 years trying to escape oil shocks. They still upend elections.
Even as the energy economy has changed radically, the politics of oil have not.
Centuries-old cemetery helps scientists link climate shocks to Industrial Revolution disease
During England's Industrial Revolution, when the country's farming-based economy transformed into an industrial one between roughly 1760 and 1840, pollution, harsh working conditions, inadequate housing ...
Political Analyst: Midterms in Virginia were a rebuke of Trump
Randolph-Macon Political Science Professor Rich Meagher says Tuesday’s midterm elections in Virginia were a rebuke of President Donald Trump and his record on the economy.
Economic Report: Rancho Mirage Invests in Business, Housing, and Tourism
Rancho Mirage strengthens its economy through healthcare, tourism, new residential communities, and investments in infrastructure and sustainability.
Trump-backed redistricting sought a midterm edge for Republicans. It didn't work
Republicans lost most of the Democratic-held seats they had targeted to flip, lost others they had banked on retaining and got swept out of power by a Democratic surge fueled by voter dissatisfaction with Trump, the economy and the war with Iran.
Iran Holds Technology Olympics
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran has held the third edition of the Technology Olympics, an event aimed at identifying talented young people, strengthening their problem-solving skills, and connecting them with real-world industrial projects and the knowledge-based economy.
Letters: Credit card change could hurt small businesses
I recently read an op-ed in this newspaper arguing that the Durbin-Marshall credit card mandates would ease pressure on Louisiana businesses and keep our economy growing. As an entrepreneur, I
AP Voter Poll: The economy and the state of democracy are voters’ top issues
About 4 in 10 U.S. voters nationally say the economy is the most important issue facing the country, as most express concern about gas prices and the cost of groceries. About 3 in 10 say the state of democracy is the top issue.
What brought people to the polls? Northeast Ohio voters cite economy, national politics
Voters from across the region took to the polls to cast their ballots. We caught up with a few to find out what was on their mind this Election Day.
Early CNN Voter Poll results find an electorate deeply unhappy with Trump and the economy
Voters are broadly unhappy with the state of the nation, the condition of the economy and President Donald Trump’s job performance, according to CNN’s Voter Poll.
Many voters see midterm election as a rebuke of Trump, NBC News Exit Poll shows
The president’s approval rating is dismal among voters, who have big concerns about the economy, according to early polling results.
From booth to business: How art markets grow Eugene’s creative economy
When Erick Wonderly Varela first arrived at the Whiteaker Community Market, they brought with them a folding table, three stickers, a handful of prints, and a little encouragement from their mother. As artist for as long as they could remember, Erick had never quite approached their creative practice as a business. At the time, they […]
What's at stake in the 2026 midterms for Elon Musk, tech, economy
From inflation and AI backlash to Elon Musk's record spending on Republicans, here's what's at stake in the 2026 midterm elections.
Want Your Business to Thrive? Don't Shelve Growth Plans During Economic Uncertainty
Growth-minded companies shouldn't sit and wait for the economy to improve before going ahead with plans to expand. The real risk to the business is doing nothing.
Wharton economist says his AI views 'radically shifted'
Wharton Associate Professor of Finance Sylvain Catherine says AI tools can boost the economy, but the AI race risks a "wild level of uncertainty."
Georgia Football Needs a Strong Economy, Not an Uncertain Business Climate Under Keisha Lance Bottoms
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football operates in an increasingly complicated financial environment. The Bulldogs compete against programs with enormous resources, sophisticated recruiting operations and growing NIL budgets. Maintaining that advantage requires Georgia to remain an attractive destination for businesses and major donors. Keisha Lance Bottoms’ proposed pause on new data center construction deserves scrutiny from…
Commentary: Alaska fishers need clean energy solutions to lower fuel costs
The war in Iran has sent fuel prices soaring, and that increase took a toll on my business and all the other small-scale fishing businesses that power Alaska’s rural economy.
The US Electorate Is Permanently Mobilized and Unable to Move
Voters are epically dissatisfied as we enter into the midterms. But our political economy and social world are not changing in response to that dissatisfaction.
U.S. economy could lose $1B as gamers plan to rob liquor stores, steal cars
Two of the biggest game franchises of all time — "World of Warcraft" and "Grand Theft Auto" — are getting new releases this month.
Calvert Farm Tour Puts Watermen, Bay Science in Spotlight
Calvert's Oct. 29 farm tour stopped at Bay research labs, Watermen's Wharf and Chesapeake's Bounty to spotlight the county's farm and seafood economy.
The AI economy is a small-business economy
For Goldman Sachs, the opportunity is helping small businesses move from experimenting with AI to integrating it into how they operate and grow
Business luncheon explores economy
At a Dorset luncheon, state chamber leaders said health care, housing, taxes and permitting challenges are delaying hiring and investment.
How Trump’s economic promises are holding up so far
On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump made a series of bold promises to voters about how he would rapidly drive down the cost of living and transform the US economy if they sent him back to the White House.
From the Editor: ‘Family-owned’ applies to many Maine businesses
Maine’s economy relies on family-owned businesses. But, like any business, those held by families need to keep pace with the times.
More than 70 Minnesota children detained during ICE surge, state report finds
A preliminary report from a council established by Gov. Tim Walz details the toll of the federal immigration crackdown on children, schools and the state’s economy.
Zohranomics 101: How Mamdani is reshaping NYC's $1.3 trillion economy
A year after Zohran Mamdani's election, a slow-motion economic revolution is underway — from small wins and filled potholes to rent freezes.
North Carolina early voting tops 2 million as voters cite economy, health care concerns
More than 2 million North Carolinians cast ballots during early voting ahead of Election Day.
Kerrigan in the DC Journal: America's Innovation Economy Runs on Small Business - Why Protecting Bayh-Dole Matters - Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
In an Op-Ed published in the DC Journal this week and now appearing in local newspapers across the country, SBE Council President & CEO Karen Kerrigan highlights the indispensable role of small businesses and startups in driving American innovation, technological advancement, and economic growth. Kerrigan points to the extraordinary success of the bipartisan Bayh-Dole Act, […]
US Rep Jim Clyburn says Colom election is key for voting rights laws
The economy is key for most voters in the midterm elections. The future of the Voting Rights Act is top of mind for many in the South as well.
Local business confidence concerns have eased compared with 2025, index shows
Southern Nevada business leaders are still feeling uncertain about the economy’s future, but fears have eased when it comes to hiring, sales and profits, according to a new report.
Lines Under the Sea: The Politics of the Middle East’s Data Corridors
The Middle East is using fiber to rebuild the transit economy it once framed around oil and the Suez Canal. Which routes get laid will depend as much on security and sovereignty as on engineering, with the question of Palestine central to the choice
Why Hollywood Is Turning Food Into Its Next Business Opportunity
Explore how the 2026 L.A. Times Food Bowl, BLXST’s Everytable partnership and the creator economy reveal new business opportunities in food and entertainment.
Small business Saturday, culinary edition
Small Business Saturday falls on November 28th this year, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and it’s the perfect time to strengthen the Island’s local economy by promoting the importance of small businesses. Because the reality is that supporting local businesses isn’t just about shopping, it’s about investing in the well-being of our community. When we purchase […]
Column: America’s innovation economy runs on small business
Small businesses are the engine of America’s economic and technological future, and the Trump administration knows it. Administration officials have repeatedly cited startup formation and entrepreneurship as key to addressing the nation’s m…
The politics of war
Israel went to the polls last Tuesday and it is the turn of the United States next Tuesday. The differences in the two elections are self-evident. Compared with the US, which has favourable geography and does everything at scale, Israel is tiny and part of an unstable region. For its elections, it has adopted an almost pure form of proportional representation based on lists. This encourages multiple parties and can make it almost impossible to form a government, as we can now see. The US system is complex in its own way but discourages third parties. Yet for all the differences in size, geography, and political systems, the fates of the two countries are closely connected. Israel has come to depend on the US to sustain its military strength, and over the past few tumultuous years that dependence has created resentment in the United States. The Biden administration was punished for appearing to give Netanyahu a blank check after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and not holding Israel back as it employed ruthless tactics in Gaza. Because of the treatment of Palestinians, American views of Israel have grown progressively more negative over the past few years. Only a third now support the Israeli government. While on the left, this is largely because of how Israeli forces have operated in Gaza and, more recently, how the settler movement has behaved in the West Bank, for the American right the issue has been about how Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Donald Trump to forget his wariness about more Middle Eastern wars and agree to a joint attack on Iran, which has gone badly wrong. The Palestine question was not a big issue for the two large Jewish blocs in last Tuesday’s election. Both supported a tough response to Hamas after October 2023 and neither accepts a two-state solution. It was, however, the threat posed by the ethno-nationalist policies of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two extreme members of Netanyahu’s coalition, and their tolerance, even encouragement, of settler violence, that brought out the Arab voters. (In principle this should strengthen their position though to turn into real power would require the ‘Change Bloc’ overcoming their opposition to involving Arab parties. The alternatives are a National Unity government, defection from the Change Bloc to Netanyahu, or deadlock and another round of elections in the new year.) There was also broad support for the war against Iran among the Jewish parties. The difficulty here is that the objectives behind the war have yet to be met, and that continuing with military operations depends on the United States. In this way the two elections have come together at a crucial moment. If Netanyahu hoped that a victory over Iran would help him retain his majority, cementing his legacy as an Israeli war leader, it did not work out that way. Trump also expected a great victory about which he could boast. He promised at most the end of a hateful and aggressive regime, with a record of hostility to both the United States and Israel, or at least the elimination of Iran’s military capabilities and the end of its nuclear programme. Eight months on, there is not much to boast about; vital objectives remain elusive: the Iranian regime is even more hardline than before; the international economy is barely coping with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and Saudi Arabia is struggling with an unwanted conflict with the Yemeni Houthis. For all these reasons, the Iran War has been a dark cloud hanging over both elections. Yet the issue has been approached in different ways. Netanyahu sought to push the issue before the election while Trump has been more cautious. Trump’s essential claim is that there is nothing to worry about and he’s still working out what final steps need to be taken to provide a definitive conclusion to the conflict. Netanyahu’s final pitch was that there was lots to worry about. He focused on Israel’s dire security situation, with the Iran War unfinished and the prospect of imminent economic isolation because of international sanctions. For him it is imperative to defeat Iran decisively, and without delay. Why this different response to the same war? Part of the answer lies in how public opinion in the two countries responded to the war. In this post, I show how this came about. We await the outcome of the US midterms but know the result, at least in terms of the share of the vote if not yet the shape of the new government, of the Israeli election. With the elections out of the way Netanyahu is pressing for another round in the war. Trump is less sure. I conclude with thoughts on the importance of how he decides.
Duets Launches a New Ecosystem for Startups Building in Sports and Entertainment
LOS ANGELES, October 29, 2026--Duets launches today to help startups in sports, entertainment and the creator economy find the people, support and funding they need to grow.
U.S. economy grew at a fast clip in 3rd quarter, thanks to consumer spending
The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent.
TAAG Angloa partners with AirFi to deliver In-Flight Entertainment
TAAG Angola Airlines, the national carrier of Angola, has entered into a partnership with AirFi to deploy AirFi’s portable streaming in-flight entertainment solution (IFE) across the airline’s mixed fleet of long-haul and regional aircraft. Together, the partners aim to enhance the digital journey for TAAG Angola passengers by delivering modern in-flight entertainment services, which they […]
Trump defends war in Iran, tariffs during Texas campaign swing
Despite polls showing most Texans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy and the war in Iran, Trump can’t stop talking about both.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
Gallup: Economy, Health Care and Iran Top Voter Concerns Ahead of Midterms
The economy, healthcare, and the war in Iran rank highest in importance to U.S. voters ahead of this week's midterms, according to the latest Gallup poll. With the election five days away, voter responses reflect pushback against President Donald Trump's economic platform and foreign policy agenda.
The midterms will decide who holds power. But who will answer for the broken promises?
Voters are demanding more than partisan rhetoric as they head to the polls to decide the future of the economy.
The Key: Politics in Research a Danger to Innovation
Since the Bayh-Dole Act passed in 1980, the commercialization of federally funded research has contributed trillions of dollars to the American economy and made possible the launch of tens of thousands of start-ups, according to the Bayh-Dole Coalition. Inventions like Google’s search engine, tests for cervical cancer, lithium car battery recycling and high-definition video and audio are all products of the Bayh-Dole system. U.S.
Memphis voters cite economy, health care, and local issues as early voting numbers outpace 2022
One day remains to vote early in Tennessee, and state data shows early voting numbers are outpacing 2022.
Fed hits pause on interest rates
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Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099
A price drop before launch? In this economy?
V47 Entertainment, VIRTUE Asia and COL Group Reveal 2027 Microdrama Line Up
Launched at Inside Microdramas, the world's first dedicated upfront for microdramas and the vertical entertainment economy, the slate showcases formats designed for the next phase of brand storytelling
Creators are now classified as small businesses, but what does that actually mean?
The Small Business Administration has officially welcomed creators; we unpack what that means for brands, creators, and the economy at large.
Understanding Latin America’s Rightward Political Shift
Latin America has experienced a rightward political shift in recent years, driven largely by voters’ growing concerns over crime, security, and the economy. Experts say the reelection of left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil bucks this trend, but doesn’t halt it.
From 'socialist' to 'pedophile,' 2026 political ads are betting on fear, anger
A week from Election Day, TV screens across Arizona are filled with campaign ads. But one expert wonders why they’re not talking about the economy, and the role Republicans have played in it.
Amo Celebrates $1.2 Million Federal Investment in Cumberland Stormwater Improvements to Protect Local Businesses and Jobs
Cumberland, RI – TODAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI-01) joined local leaders today to celebrate the completion of a $1.2 million stormwater infrastructure project along Industrial Road, helping Cumberland address chronic flooding in its largest commercial area and better protect the businesses, workers, and infrastructure that keep its economy moving.
Opinion: Chicago’s push to protect gig workers threatens their independence
Chicago's delivery rules risk gig worker flexibility. States should offer portable benefits, argues an Americans for a Modern Economy adviser.
Business, Society, and Seven Flights: Reflections from My First Recruitment Tour Across India
Michael R. Myers, SOM’s director of admissions for strategic priorities and community engagement, traveled to five cities to meet prospective MBA students and explore the country’s vibrant economy and culture.
No on 87; it will hurt state’s businesses, economy
When I left public service as deputy mayor of Denver, I took with me a conviction that the people who build businesses here are the ones who keep Colorado moving. I started my first company, Seca Secure, from my dining room table with a simple goal: provide good customer service and quality Security equipment to […]
Workers are getting a shrinking slice of America’s economic pie
The US economy continues to grow at a relatively healthy pace, but American workers aren’t fully reaping the financial rewards.
Economy, 'political homelessness' is top of mind for Ohio voters
Morning Edition Host Amy Eddings is back with another installment of the Ideastream election series that interviews voters from the Mahoning Valley ahead of the midterms.
Trump, ignoring polls, predicts economy to help Republicans in midterms
By Trevor Hunnicutt CORINTH, Mississippi, Oct 26 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump campaigned on Monday in deeply Republican Mississippi, predicting victory for a Republican Senate candidate based
Miller-Meeks focuses on health care, economy as Election Day nears
The Republican is emphasizing her medical background, conservative priorities and efforts to bring federal investment to southeast Iowa
Bioeconomy Needs Supply Chains and Science: David Zilberman
UC Berkeley economist David Zilberman outlines how biotechnology, circular supply chains, and regulation are vital to scale the global bioeconomy.
Opinion: City Hall keeps asking small businesses for more. Enough is enough.
And as City Hall debates how to close another budget deficit, I hope we remember that the small businesses we’re asking to pay more are the very ones we depend on to grow our economy.
The sleeper issue that could decide the U.S. Senate race in Texas
Voters from both parties consistently rank the issue second only to the economy and high prices
Tulane political science professors discuss Iran war, international policy
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European start-ups have a new voice in Brussels. Startups for Europe, created from the merger of lobby groups Allied for Startups and the European Startup Network, is hoping to harness the momentum behind EU-Inc, a campaign that united start-ups and investors behind demands for a new pan-European company regime.At a launch event for the new association in Brussels on October 1, the mood was remarkably upbeat compared to a typical Eurobubble gathering, more Silicon Valley than Schuman roundabout.When asked whether this reflects a feeling that Europe is on the right track, chief executive Serena Borbotti-Frison said it’s a “scary” moment as the continent looks to boost its competitiveness amid a new technological arms race.“What is at stake is quite intense, and the way we can answer is by delivering, but also with hope,” she told Science|Business. “It’s what our industry does. It’s not about identifying a pain point and then saying it’s too hard.”For many in the start-up community, that sense of hope is dwindling. In March, the European Commission presented its proposal for EU Inc, naming its initiative after the grassroots campaign.EU Inc was meant to be a gamechanger: the ability to incorporate within 48 hours for less than €100 and scale up across Europe; a harmonised stock option regime enabling start-ups to compete for talent; and simplified insolvency procedures for innovative start-ups to reduce the cost of failure.However, haggling by EU governments has raised concerns that EU Inc will be stripped of the very features, including stock option harmonisation, that are meant to make it attractive for companies.“I fear we are proving to ourselves that the model doesn’t work,” Borbotti-Frison said of the policymaking process. “Everyone agrees we should have EU Inc. Everyone agrees it’s hard to scale and we need to scale to answer the competitiveness [challenge], and still we cannot deliver? [. . .] What does that say about ourselves?”The Commission has made EU Inc a cornerstone of its single market reform, and has agreed with the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to target an agreement by the end of 2026. However, several points are currently holding up an agreement, including national rules around employee participation in management decisions, and the provision that employee stock options always be taxed at the point of sale. Some EU governments have reportedly pushed back on the Commission’s choice of legal basis, contending that anything related to taxation requires unanimity in the Council.Trade unions have also protested against EU Inc, fearing it will be exploited by companies looking to undermine workers’ rights.“If this doesn’t work, it’s introspection time, on the way our institutions work, maybe the way our lobbies work, and maybe the way the cooperation between them works,” Borbotti-Frison said.“Is it in the national interest? Is it a gap between political will and technical ability to operate? Is it speed? I don't know, but something needs to be fixed.”Ahead of last week’s European Council meeting, EU-Inc campaigners tried a new strategy: appealing directly to EU presidents and prime ministers. In an open letter, they urged EU leaders to “step in and give your negotiating teams a clear mandate to change course and reverse their objections to the Commission’s original proposal.”Lessons from EU-IncLike its predecessors, Startups for Europe will represent national start-up associations, but it is also targeting investors. The founding sponsors are venture capital firm Atomico and EQT, the investor selected earlier this year to manage the €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund.It also wants to harness the knowledge and cross-border experience of European success stories. “Take the list of the 100 biggest unicorns in Europe. We are speaking to all of them,” Borbotti-Frison said. The association plans to publish a full list of supporters following the Slush tech conference in Helsinki in November.Andreas Klinger and Simon Schaefer, two key figures in the EU-Inc campaign, are both on the board of the new association, and Startups for Europe wants to take the lessons from their campaign.What was unprecedented about EU-Inc was “how rooted it was, and how strong it was in bringing everyone on board behind one clear pain point and solution to fix it,” Borbotti-Frison said. “This is an inspiration for us, and then we need to turn it into something more systematic, more bridged in Brussels, more connected to the policymaking game, and to scale it.”If it’s possible to unite such a broad coalition, it’s because the European start-up ecosystem is now mature, she said. “Maybe it was not ten years ago. Maybe it was not five years ago. But now, it’s mature to speak with one voice.”Open and liberal EuropeThe association plans to campaign on files related to three “pain points,” Borbotti-Frison said: “start and scale in Europe, fundraise and invest in Europe, and making Europe the most innovative continent.”As well as EU Inc, she cited public procurement, the EU’s simplification push, the Savings and Investments Union, and files related to AI adoption and technological sovereignty as priorities for the coming months.What these files have in common is that they relate not to subsidies but to the framework conditions influencing the availability of mostly private, or in the case of procurement, public, funding.Related articlesEmployee participation disagreement delays MEPs’ vote on EU IncCommission urges EU governments not to water down EU IncEU’s ‘ultra-fast’ €5B scale-up fund is set up to win, says its fund managerThe budget dispute over the next Horizon Europe programme will also impact start-ups, which are supported notably through the European Innovation Council. But EU innovation funding is a drop in the ocean compared to venture capital and public procurement budgets.“If competitiveness and innovation are a priority, then the [EU budget] should reflect it,” Borbotti-Frison said. However, she added that the main question is not how much public money is invested, but “how do we create the right conditions for the market to solve the problem?”The Scaleup Europe Fund mixes both approaches, using €1 billion in EU funding to crowd in private investors and address Europe’s lack of large-scale, late-stage growth funds. “It’s a proof of concept. Ideally, then the market will do it itself,” Borbotti-Frison said.Startups for Europe is also focused on bringing an alternative political narrative. Amid competing visions for open, global markets on the one side and a protectionist Europe on the other, it wants to offer “a third voice, to say we can be proudly European and build a strong continent in a liberal economy, open to the world, and global.”It can be tempting, when thinking about how Europe can better support innovation, to look across the Atlantic. But while it’s important to compare statistics to see where Europe needs to catch up, that’s where the comparison should stop, Borbotti-Frison said. “On everything else, we need to do it our own way. We don't have the same history. We don't have the same political model. We don't have the same way of life.”Many of the key files that could benefit the start-up community, including EU Inc and the Savings and Investments Union, rely on closer integration within Europe, making it easier to operate across borders.While the Commission has made deepening the single market a political priority, support at national level is more precarious. The coming months will see pivotal elections in Spain and France, while the German government has also been coming under pressure domestically. In each country, far-right parties have been gaining ground.When asked if she was concerned the political situation could jeopardise this progress, Borbotti-Frison responded: “Of course. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t.” However, she continues to believe that cooperation is the only way forward. “Doing it alone is not the solution. It’s also not who we are, it’s not the model we are building, and it’s not the scale we need.”
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Türkiye’s reliance on fossil fuels is generating massive air pollution health costs both within the country and throughout the region. This report finds that fossil fuels account for more than half (52%) of Türkiye’s population exposure to PM2.5 air pollution. The cumulative health impacts are estimated to cost the Turkish economy approximately USD 55 billion each year, equivalent to 4.1% of national GDP in 2024. The pollution is also responsible for roughly 26,500 deaths per year in the country, including deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, lung cancer, stroke, and diabetes.The impacts begin at the very start of life, with fossil-fuel-derived PM2.5 pollution contributing to an estimated 8,000 preterm births, 8,200 low-birthweight infants, 5,100 new cases of childhood asthma, and 6,500 emergency-room visits for asthma each year in Türkiye.Beyond the estimated deaths each year in Türkiye, air pollution from the country’s fossil fuel emissions also contributes to deaths and economic losses in neighbouring countries. In 2024, these emissions were estimated to cause: 32,000 deaths and USD 2.1 billion in economic burden in Egypt; 1,700 deaths and USD 0.2 billion in economic burden in Syria; 800 deaths and USD 0.8 billion in economic burden in Iraq; 500 deaths and USD 4.5 billion in economic burden in Israel; and 400 deaths and USD 1.5 billion in economic burden in Greece.Türkiye currently has no national ambient air-quality standard for PM2.5, despite the substantial health burden associated with exposure to the pollutant. Figure — The percentage of annual PM2.5 emissions in Türkiye’s fossil fuel emissions, using the EMEP emission inventory and EMEP MSC-W chemical transport model Key findings Türkiye’s fossil fuel emissions (from domestic sources as well as international aviation and shipping) account for 52% of population exposure to PM₂.₅ nationwide. PM2.5 pollution attributable to Türkiye’s fossil fuel use is responsible for approximately 26,500 deaths in the country every year, including deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, lung cancer, stroke, and diabetes. Children are among the most affected, with fossil fuel-derived PM2.5 pollution contributing to an estimated 8,000 preterm births, 8,200 low-birth-weight infants, 5,100 new cases of childhood asthma and 6,500 emergency room visits for asthma each year. The cumulative health impacts of fossil fuel-derived PM2.5 pollution are estimated to cost the Turkish economy approximately USD 55 billion each year, equivalent to 4.1% of national GDP in 2024. Transboundary pollution attributable to Türkiye’s land-based fossil fuel emissions also leads to thousands of deaths in five neighbouring countries, with estimated economic burden per year (as of 2024) reaching USD 2.1 billion in Egypt (3,200 deaths), USD 0.2 billion in Syria (1,700 deaths), USD 0.8 billion in Iraq (800 deaths), USD 4.5 billion in Israel (500 deaths), and USD 1.5 billion in Greece (400 deaths). Türkiye currently has no national ambient air quality standard for PM2.5, despite the substantial health burden associated with exposure to the pollutant. Reducing fossil fuel use and emissions across Türkiye’s energy, transport and industrial systems would deliver substantial air quality and public health benefits by reducing exposure to PM2.5 and preventing associated illness and deaths. Figure — Annual deaths attributable to Türkiye’s land-based fossil fuel emissions in the five most affected countries, based on 2024 emissions
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