Elizabeth Lopatto
A look inside a16z’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas police.
Ben Horowitz has donated a minimum of $7.6 million to fund police purchases. a16z portfolio companies, —such as Skydio, Prepared911, and Flock Safety — benefited.
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Hey kid, wanna stare into the abyss together?
Verge staffers review election.omg.lol: “Both horrifying and kinda helpful.” “This is a hell site.” “This rules.”
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Tweet to legal filing pipeline working at record speed for Rudy Giuliani.
America’s mayor, who lost a defamation case and now owes $148 million to poll workers, didn’t turn over his valuables as ordered. Then he showed up to vote in one of them, a Mercedes Benz. Hours later, this filing showed up, citing the reporter’s X post.
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Presidential betting platform Kalshi loads up on debt.
The startup has received “tens of millions from investors in short-term loans“ to make sure it can cover election bets:
Like most brokerages, the company offers instant funding to new users. This means users can start trading right away, even though it may take two to three business days for the funds to be officially transferred from the customer’s bank account to Kalshi’s.
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Hey, you’re never going to believe what’s going on with that crypto election betting site!
Forbes reports on “evidence of rampant wash trading on Polymarket,” a prediction market site backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Wash trading is a form of market manipulation. “The suspicious activity on Polymarket raises questions about the accuracy of the site,” Forbes writes.
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FTX co-conspirator Nishad Singh isn’t going to prison.
Singh, now the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced after Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and Ryan Salame, will receive three years of supervised release.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who has presided over the cases, said that Mr. Singh provided crucial assistance to the government and that he had played a “much more limited” role in the scheme than his colleagues had.
Nishad Singh, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time After Cooperation
[The New York Times]
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“You have a Washington Post problem.”
Blue Origin leadership has viewed Donald Trump as positive for space. Most of Jeff Bezos’ focus is currently on Blue Origin. “Elon’s real superpower is getting government money,” Bezos has said, according to The Post.
Bezos claims spiking the Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement was a “principled decision.”
For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important
[The Washington Post]
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I shouldn’t have to tell you not to do this, but just in case you don’t have any common sense...
don’t feed your fucking private medical records to a chatbot, Jesus Christ.
Here’s why embattled SEC chair Gary Gensler is a hot-button presidential issue.
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