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News discussed:

Ilya Sutskever has started his own AI company 

the Mona art museum trolls

Alec Baldwin case dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct

Trump shooting

Trump says his convention speech will be focused on “unity”

Biden gave RFK Jr. secret service protection

Joe holds a 1 hour news conference

Biden opponents “standing down” because of “fragile political moment”

JD Vance

Republicans released a platform

Judge Cannon dismissed classified documents case

Center and Left coordinated to beat far-right in France 

if Macron had given them time to squabble they probably would have fallen apart

They got 37% of the vote but 25% of parliament

Got 10% more votes than NFP (far left) but 20% less seats

15% more votes than Macron’s centrist, but slightly less seats. 

They seem to be having trouble picking a PM

Astronauts that were supposed to be on ISS for a week are stuck there until August (Feb??) 

because Boeing can’t make things that work anymore. 

Russia and N Korea ally against “aggression”

Ukraine war pushing the frontier of autonomous military weapons

YouTube video on LAWS

Happy News!

THEY RELEASED THE GENE DRIVE!

US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu

Troop Deployment

Eneasz - The shot of a lifetime takes a lifetime 

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