Posts by Amelia Frost
Political Parties’ Spending In Elections Faced Limits For Decades. The Supreme Court Has Just Removed The Cap.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down longstanding federal limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates for Congress and the presidency. For more than five decades, federal law capped the amount national political parties could spend in coordination with candidates. Depending on the office and state, those limits…
Read MoreThomas To on How AI-Enabled Biology is Advancing Drug Discovery and Scientific Innovation
Thomas To, a full-stack AI engineer, believes some of AI’s most meaningful developments are emerging within drug discovery. While public conversations may often focus on chatbots and workplace automation, To sees specialized AI systems trained on scientific data as an important area where technology and biology can work together to support researchers exploring new therapies.…
Read MoreDoug Werby: A Multidisciplinary Creative Exploring New Frontiers Through Technology and Storytelling
For Doug Werby, creative work has always been driven by anticipation of the next evolution. Across more than three decades as a director, editor, producer, and multidisciplinary creative, he has embraced major technological shifts with the same curiosity that first drew him into filmmaking. That mindset now extends to artificial intelligence, which he regards as…
Read MoreWall Street’s AI Boom Has Powered Stocks For Years. Now Investors Want Proof Before Pouring More Money.
The US stock market enters the second half of 2026 after a strong first six months, with investors now turning their attention from the rapid pace of artificial intelligence investment to whether companies can translate those billions of dollars into earnings growth. The benchmark S&P 500 has risen more than 8% this year, while the…
Read MoreThe AI Boom Has Sent Major Stock Indexes Soaring. But The Magnificent Tell a Different Story.
Roughly $2.3 trillion has been erased from the combined market value of the so-called Magnificent Seven technology companies in June as investors reassess the scale and timing of returns from artificial intelligence investments across the sector. The group, comprised by Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla, has been under pressure as markets react…
Read MoreEstablishment Democrats Have Suffered Heavy Blows In Recent Primaries. They Fear It Could Happen Again In Colorado.
In Colorado, veteran Rep. Diana DeGette is fighting to hold off progressive challenger Melat Kiros in a race that has become part of a wider trend of a growing divide in the Democratic Party between its establishment and more left-wing factions. The primary is drawing attention far beyond Colorado after a series of upset victories…
Read MoreBIS Warns that The Ongoing AI Boom Echoes Painful Historical Investment Busts
The artificial intelligence boom is fueling one of the largest investment waves in modern history, but a new report is warning that history suggests the boom could come with painful consequences before the promised economic rewards materialize. In its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) cautioned that the extraordinary spending on AI…
Read MoreHSBC Warns Markets Are Ignoring the Biggest Risk Heading Into the Second Half of 2026
Investors celebrating record highs in U.S. stocks may be overlooking the possibility that consensus trades unwind violently if economic or geopolitical conditions change in the second half of 2026, HSBC warned. In a new report, the bank said that markets have become increasingly vulnerable to so-called “pain trades,” unexpected moves that go against the prevailing…
Read MoreAI Deepfake Scams Tricking Americans Out Of Dozens Of Billions. And It’s Not Just The Elderly.
Americans lost an estimated $68 billion to scams in 2025, with 15 million people (about 6 percent of U.S. adults) personally falling victim, according to a new poll. The results, disclosed by Gallup and the Stop Scams Alliance, found an additional 4 percent of adults lived in a household where someone else was scammed, putting…
Read MoreRipple Moves $16 Trillion a Year. Is XRP Price Really Going 100x?
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse dropped a figure on CNBC that XRP holders have been screenshotting all week. On June 26, he said Ripple now processes roughly $16 trillion in annual payments and clearing activity across the businesses it acquired, and that digital assets account for “close to zero percent” of that volume. That gap is…
Read MoreVenezuelan Deportees Were Sent To a Hotel When Returned To Their Country. Then The Earthquakes Hit.
Dozens of Venezuelans who were deported on June 24 were killed when successive earthquakes hit the country just hours after they landed. 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, had just arrived in the country, CNN reported. While the deportees were still being processed at the Hotel Santuario La Llanada, twin earthquakes measuring 7.2…
Read MoreThe AI Industry Continues To Boom. A Bipartisan Group Pushing For Strong Regulation Just Raised Over $80M.
Public First Action, a bipartisan advocacy group backing stronger artificial intelligence safeguards, said Tuesday it has raised more than $80 million since its launch, including $20 million over the past 10 days, marking one of the largest fundraising efforts centered on AI policy during the 2026 election cycle. The organization said the recent influx of…
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