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Democrats took both chambers of Congress, flipping seats in states Trump carried by double digits in 2024: James Talarico's Senate win in Texas, Annie Andrews' upset in South Carolina, Troy Jackson's defeat of Susan Collins in Maine. The AP Voter Poll points to high prices, the Iran war and corruption worries, with young and Hispanic voters moving away from the GOP.
Ben Thompson reads the wave partly as a vote on data centers: both parties ran ads against them, and Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has pledged a construction moratorium in the state with more than a quarter of planned US capacity. Unlike offshoring, he notes, the AI build-out needs local permission, and voters are withholding it.
A GitHub issue documents Postman's desktop app installing itself into Claude Code and Codex without asking: it edited the global Codex config, added a remote MCP connection and a startup instruction hook it then tried to trust on its own, and logged the whole thing as an 'auto-existing-upgrade' for signed-in users.
Seven companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Anduril, Databricks, Bezos's Prometheus and The Boring Co.) raised more than $260 billion in the first 10 months of 2026, just over half of all US seed-through-growth venture dollars.
