Who Should Pay on the First Date? A Fresh Look
The bill lands on the table and two people freeze. What the old rules said, why they've frayed, and a workable answer for who pays on a first date.
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What the Midterms Mean for AI Policy in Washington
Voters never ruled on AI directly, but data center backlash, a divided Congress and a crowded agenda point to where AI policy goes next.
Voters in several states this week approved ballot measures meant to slow the construction of electricity-hungry data centers. That detail, noted by CNBC in a piece about renewable energy, got little attention amid the larger story of a Republican rout, though it deserves more. Nobody has produced evidence that Americans cast ballots over chatbots or model safety. In some places they did vote against the buildings that house the servers, which is a different kind of AI politics and may prove the more durable one.
Three lessons follow from the results, none of them certain, and together they sketch the likely shape of AI policy over the next two years.