Democrat wins special state House election in Maine 

Democrat Scott Harriman is projected to defeat Republican Janet Beaudoin in Tuesday’s special election to represent Maine’s 94th State House District, according to Decision Desk Headquarters. Harriman, a Lewiston city councilman, won a special election against Lewiston School Committee member Beaudoin for the Lewiston-based state House seat. The seat was vacated by former State Representative…

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Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving the company

Amazon logo on brick office building facade with windows, San Francisco, California, Aug. 29, 2025. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images The head of Amazon’s artificial general intelligence lab is leaving the company less than two years after joining through a so-called acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept. David Luan announced…

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Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Ashenbrenner. The company aims to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results compared to Nvidia’s GPUs….

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