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U.S. District Judge David O. Carter refused the Justice Department's bid to hold back the ballots of up to 20,000 people it alleges are likely noncitizens, ruling that segregating votes mid-election would act like a voter purge, which federal law bars within 90 days of an election. More than 3.7 million Californians have already voted; DOJ says it will appeal, and it has made a similar demand in Washington state.

Ben Thompson talks with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar about the tension between AI diffusion and AI safety, the forward-deployed-engineer model Palantir built its business on, and what Sankar thinks the fight in tech is actually about.

Google Cloud revenue doubled from a year earlier to $30.7 billion, within reach of Azure, but investors rewarded Microsoft: Alphabet's total revenue of $127.6 billion missed estimates and it posted negative free cash flow of $9 billion on AI data-center spending, while Microsoft grew revenue 19% to $92.3 billion.