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Rep. Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost the August Democratic primary to Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday after sitting beside him at a Detroit church service, hours after being uninvited from a joint unity event. Her top aide quit over it; the open seat, vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters, is one Democrats need to have a shot at the Senate.
Prop 40 on Tuesday's California ballot would levy a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, retroactive to anyone resident on Jan. 1, 2026. Gabriel Zucman's team estimates about $100 billion in revenue; Stanford's Joshua Rauh says billionaire flight would instead cost the state $39 billion. Much of the gap comes down to how much avoidance you assume.
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, number theorist Frank Calegari says OpenAI's October release of 700+ AI-written papers (badly written, poorly attributed, sometimes wrong, but full of real ideas) should prompt reorganization, not mourning. Mathematicians should verify and rewrite the results the way the finite-simple-groups classification was revised, and reward people who chase deeper structure instead of declaring fields solved.
PostgreSQL committer Robert Haas says v19 will slip to November or later because LLM-assisted bug hunting has flooded the project. Back-patched commits jumped more than 60% year over year, and three big features (FOR PORTION OF, SQL/PGQ, MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION) were reverted late. Models find decades-old bugs far faster than humans can review and land the fixes.
