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Trump named Stephen Miller chief of staff after Susie Wiles resigned Thursday night, elevating the architect of his hard-line immigration agenda just as an incoming Democratic Congress gets ready to investigate the administration, Miller included. Trump insisted the change was "not because of the election."
Musk says Tesla will end Cybertruck production in mid-2027, freeing factory space for the Cybercab robotaxi. Ars traces how a truck once promised at under $40,000 and a quarter-million sales a year turned into a recall-heavy flop that never sold in volume.
OpenAI closed the first $11 billion of its latest round at a $1.25 trillion valuation and is expected to host an investor call on its third-quarter results next week.
Reading METR's public report on Anthropic, the author argues the lab has already crossed its own "dramatically accelerated progress" threshold: capabilities progress roughly doubled from October 2025 to October 2026, mostly because AI is automating the research. Doubling overall progress implies something like a 10x speedup per researcher, and if that compounds, the naive extrapolation reaches superintelligence within a year.
