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About two-thirds of midterm voters said Trump's own policies fueled inflation, per the AP Voter Poll of roughly 100,000 voters, and about 6 in 10 of those who called cost of living a major factor backed Democrats. Voters also broke against the boom driving growth: about 6 in 10 said AI will do more to hurt society, and 7 in 10 said the economy favors the wealthy.
IEEE Spectrum on PHP2Shell: a PHP memory bug reported in 2024 and shrugged off as a mere crash was turned into remote code execution within two weeks by an AI-assisted researcher at Calif, putting WordPress and Drupal sites at risk until a patch shipped. Finding bugs now scales far faster than fixing them, and unfunded open-source maintainers carry that asymmetry.
Of 44 ballot measures in 10 states to restrict data centers, 38 had passed at last count, and Democrats won governorships in Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Ohio, the states counted on for most new capacity. Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa plans to pause projects until laws on water, power and tax incentives pass, leaving about 13 GW exposed; industry groups say voters wanted economic change, not an AI crackdown.
In a memo titled 'The Sequoia of Tomorrow,' the firm announced roughly $10 billion in new funds while closing its London office, shutting the Arc accelerator and the Scouts program, merging its early-stage and growth teams, and naming seven general partners under co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady. Sequoia says two decades of expansion bred hierarchy.
