More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta AI Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao,...
September 15, 2026
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The FDA’s Drug-Ad Rule Would Cost Television Billions. The Coverage Hasn’t Mentioned It.
Editor’s note disclosure: NexfinityNews accepts no pharmaceutical advertising and has no financial interest in the outcome of the rulemaking described in this article. We are stating that because this article argues other outlets should state theirs. Intro A rule due from the Food and Drug Administration in December would end most prescription drug advertising on American television. It would also...
St. Paul Capped Rents. Construction Collapsed. Homeowners Got the Bill.
Introduction In January 2026, Kaohly Vang Her was sworn in as mayor of St. Paul — the city’s first woman and first Hmong American mayor. She had entered the race the previous August with no institutional backing, against an incumbent endorsed by both of Minnesota’s U.S. senators and the governor. She won by fewer than 1,900 votes in the final...
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The Safety Letter Got the Headlines. The Bill Filed Five Days Earlier Is the Story.
More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on...
The FDA’s Drug-Ad Rule Would Cost Television Billions. The Coverage Hasn’t Mentioned It.
Editor’s note disclosure: NexfinityNews accepts no pharmaceutical advertising and has no financial interest in the outcome of the rulemaking described...
St. Paul Capped Rents. Construction Collapsed. Homeowners Got the Bill.
Introduction In January 2026, Kaohly Vang Her was sworn in as mayor of St. Paul — the city’s first woman...
Ukraine’s Drones Reached the Arctic. The Harder Question Is What Kyiv Becomes When the War Ends
A Ukrainian drone started a fire at an industrial site in Novy Urengoy on Wednesday, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district...
The Fine Print: How Texas Cities Learned to Tax Without Voting
Property tax growth is capped. Ticket quotas are a crime. Red light cameras are banned. Code enforcement is none of...
Scored by a Garbage Truck: Inside Dallas’s AI “Blight” Surveillance Program
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200...
How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the...
German Industry’s Revenue Is Recovering. Its Job Cuts Are Accelerating.
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the...