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Democrat Roy Cooper Backed Biden-Era Energy, Immigration Policies

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Soft-on-crime North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper said former President Joe Biden "cemented his place among our nation’s finest presidents" and "he was able to pass transformative legislation that will benefit our economy, our families, and our country for generations to come," showing he backed policies supporting illegal immigrants and the Green New Deal policies while serving as governor.

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Anthropic files IPO paperwork as company jockeys for AI dominance amid losses

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Anthropic, the maker of the AI program Claude, is on its way to the public market after taking a big step on Monday morning.

On Monday, Anthropic's S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission was published, and the document revealed a number of highly anticipated facts about the frontier AI company's plans for the future.

The hope is to achieve something 'without historical precedent: what we refer to as a country of geniuses in a data center, available to every organization and sector of the economy.'

In a statement about the filing, Anthropic revealed that the company plans to list its public stock on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "ANT."

This step toward an initial public offering comes at a time when anxieties are rising about a potential AI bubble-burst.

And questions remain over whether Anthropic can meet its multi-billion-dollar, multiyear commitments in infrastructure and AI development.

Anthropic reported a net loss of over $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but the real numbers behind the accounting are less staggering.

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About $72.4 billion of Anthropic’s $80.7 billion net loss came from a noncash accounting charge tied to changes in the value of its financing instruments, representing roughly 90% of the reported losses.

The company's operating expenses dropped, and it generated $16.3 billion in revenue, but its expenses still exceeded revenue by $693 million. However, this operating loss is a significant improvement from the loss of over $2.1 billion in the first half of 2025.

Anthropic reported that large companies have adopted Claude as their go-to model, citing a concentration of 250 enterprises providing $10 million or more in revenue and an additional 1,900 companies providing $1 million or more.

While many people will gladly look past these negative figures for a time in anticipation of the company's promising future, Anthropic outlined a couple of noteworthy risks and developments associated with Claude, as well as an evocative vision for the company's future.

Anthropic attributed its recent success to the fact that its employees heavily use Claude in their work to develop the model, noting that 90% of the company's codebase was written by Claude in September 2026.

The filing notes that the volume of code produced is up 45 times per employee, compared to the end of 2024.

The filing also disclosed a recent development in its dealings with government regulations. According to the filing, the Federal Trade Commission issued a civil investigative demand to Anthropic "seeking information about our customer protection, data protection, and privacy practices, as well as the safety of our products."

Roughly halfway through the filing, Anthropic described the buildout of "millions" of "virtual collaborators," wherein Claude is capable of working independently and on the same level as that of a "brilliant colleague."

The hope is, according to the filing, to achieve something "without historical precedent: what we refer to as a country of geniuses in a data center, available to every organization and sector of the economy."

Blaze News reached out to Anthropic for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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Cooper Williamson

Sen. McConnell: Trump's Putin Policy Doomed

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said President Donald Trump's approach to Russia risks prolonging the Ukraine war and complicating passage of year-end defense legislation, arguing that pressuring Kyiv while accommodating Moscow is "certain to fail."

Another socialist business bites the dust — and Stu and Dave are loving it

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If socialists needed more evidence that their economic model is financially disastrous, they can look no farther than the Modern Times Café in Minneapolis.

The 15-year-old neighborhood restaurant, owned by anti-capitalist Dylan Alverson, announced it will be closing permanently at the end of the year. In January, following the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents, Alverson eliminated all prices for a free/donation-based model open to everyone except ICE.

“Starting today, January 26th, and until the occupation of Minneapolis is over, we are a free restaurant,” he said on Instagram.

Alverson briefly closed in July and reopened with prices in August, but it wasn’t enough to save the business, which still collapsed under debt and unsustainable economics.

Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau, BlazeTV hosts of “Stu and Dave Do America,” think the demise of Modern Times is hilarious and predictable.

“You know, normally I'm not one to take joy in someone else's misfortune,” Dave says.

But given that this is the "inevitable outcome of someone's stupid choice, it's a little easier,” he says.

Stu reads Alverson’s announcement that the cafe will be permanently closing:

For the last 6 years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist. I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is.

Because of this, we have made the choice to close at the end of the year. This has been an incredibly difficult decision and one that did not come lightly. I announce this decision now, with the hope that we can spend the next two plus months celebrating the nearly 16 years that Modern Times has stood for creativity over cost, kindness over profit, and uncompromising values as a business in this country.

This coming week I’ll start to explain how we got to this point and what the next couple months will look like. The only way for places like Modern Times to exist in the future is to actively challenge the reasons why it can no longer exist.

“[Alverson] doesn't believe in capitalism, but he does now believe in crippling debt,” Dave says.

But debt wasn’t Modern Times’ only issue. Stu reveals that “neighbors began to be crowded out of the restaurant by people who could not pay and who lingered around the restaurant all day.”

“Complaints mounted of open drug use, theft, discarded needles in the alley, and overdoses on the sidewalk,” he adds.

“That's strange. So they were stealing stuff even though it was already free,” Dave says.

Stu shares that Modern Times isn’t the only “pay what you can” restaurant to utterly fail. The EAT Café at Drexel University in Philadelphia closed in 2019 after just two and a half years for the same reasons that closed Alverson’s business.

“So in a country of people that are known … for taking advantage of every situation, including government programs that are there to help those that are in need — turned out to be awful? I can't believe it,” says Dave.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Report: Trump Faces Decades-High Staffing Shortfall

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Unnamed aides to President Donald Trump claim the White House personnel office has not kept pace in filling a historically large number of Senate-confirmed vacancies, as Republicans face a possible loss of Senate control in the midterm elections.

Athletes are warning fans about the release of GTA VI — prepare for their performance to suffer

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What has remained fan theory up until this point is now being openly discussed: Major sports leagues are likely to suffer when a new video game comes out.

The idea has been floated by fans for years, but for the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto 6, athletes are openly saying they're OK with missing work.

'Scouts are going to be horrendous.'

NBA center Steven Adams broke the fourth wall recently when he sent out a warning to fans and media that when GTA VI drops in November, the entire league is going to suffer performance-wise.

"I will say, you guys should anticipate November," the Houston Rockets player told reporters. "The performance of the league, league-wide. GTA is dropping."

No matter if Adams is predicting his own temporary demise or recognizes the amount of gamers he plays ball against, either way, a reckoning is coming.

The New Zealand native went even further and suggested that coaching skill would drop and so would scouting efficiency.

"Scouts are going to be horrendous, mate," he warned. "Just for November. But it should bounce back in December hopefully."

Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton sent out a similar warning during the summer, joking that he might not be seen on the racetrack when the game is released.

"I'm dying for the new Grand Theft Auto to come out. GTA 6," Hamilton said in front of fans in Belgium.

"Yeah, that's the one I'm waiting for. I have to cancel all my work when that game comes out," he added.

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GTA 6 comes out on November 19, the same day as the start of the F1 Heineken Las Vegas GP. It should go without saying that fans will be checking in to see if Hamilton is absent that weekend or possibly the following week for the Qatar Airways Qatar GP (Nov. 27-29).

While Hamilton appeared to be joking, athletes have seemed to be hinting at what has been suspected by fans for years; they are not immune to binge-playing their favorite games.

Circling back to Adams, the 33-year-old's warning extended to the NFL and other professional leagues.

"Look at NFL, look at all the leagues and watch them plummet, mate. Just for the month of November, performance is going to go down. It should come back up though. Most of the boys will get it done, but hopefully they finish the game."

Adams' warning about the NFL touches on a widely discussed theory that, in particular, NFL quarterback Kyler Murray has had performance dips when Call of Duty games have been released.

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The "Kyler Murray Call of Duty theory" claims that Murray's performance drops upon the release of new Call of Duty titles, which come out yearly, and continues to suffer in subsequent weeks.

The theory claims Murray's fantasy stats between 2019 and 2021 suffered in conjunction with Call of Duty releases, and there's even advanced analytics that claim Murray typically has slight dips in performance when the games have "double XP" weekends.

Fans are expecting the same from the quarterback when GTA 6 drops, and maybe he should take them up on that considering the aforementioned theory landed him a sponsorship from the game in 2024.

Other athletes to toss out the idea of GTA 6 being a focus in their life were young soccer stars Tyler Fredricson and Lamine Yamal.

Fredricson, 21, said he is "all ready for GTA 6," while Yamal, 19, inexplicably posted a GTA VI logo to his social media after winning the 2026 World Cup.

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Andrew Chapados

DOJ Charges 48 Noncitizens in Election Crimes

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Forty-eight noncitizens were charged in election-related cases in five states, including allegations of illegal voting in federal elections, fraudulent voter registration, and false claims of U.S. citizenship, the Justice Department announced Monday.