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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a major U.S. daily newspaper based in Los Angeles, covering national and California news, politics, business, and technology.

Known aliases

  • L.A. Times
  • LA Times
  • latimes.com

Current stories

productConfirmed16 publishers

Trump's "no concerns" leaves the AI safety floor where the vendors set it

President Trump told reporters he has no concerns about the pace of AI development. Every frontier-risk finding an operator could read this week was published by a lab or by someone who used to work at one.

Perspective Coverage

16 publishers
Builder
Builder 38%
Operator
Operator 34%
Investor
Investor 28%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption15
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

Bipartisan bill offers a 20% federal credit on US film labor for shooting 75% of days at home

Sens. Tim Scott and Adam Schiff back a bill giving film and TV productions a 20% federal credit on US labor, rising to 30% with bonuses. Those bonuses reward rural, disaster-area and multi-state shoots, so part of the contest the bill sets up is between US states.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption5
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

SEIU's own outside counsel corroborates a coercion claim over Prop. 40's endorsement

Two law firms hired by different tiers of SEIU examined Dave Regan's conduct. One corroborated an account that he pressed the state council to endorse his retroactive 5% wealth tax under threat of a federal labor investigation.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives90
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Prop 40 leads 48-41, which is exactly the position a wealth tax loses from

California's one-time 5% billionaire asset tax is ahead but under 50% with 11% undecided. The poll's own director says that is a red flag. It is also not a reason to stop planning.

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+14
Incentives62
Confidence63
productOne report1 publisher

Trump meets AI slowdown calls with the China race for the second time in a week

The president told reporters in Ireland that "whoever wins AI wins", a day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down, and the only next step anyone in Washington has named is a meeting this week.

Publishers:latimes.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives72
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Google's studio pitch reportedly prices one character license at about $40 million

The Los Angeles Times reports Google is offering hundreds of millions for studio libraries plus a slice of YouTube ad revenue, which tells Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal what their blessing is worth.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence24
Adoption12
Hype gap+35
Incentives68
Confidence34
productOne report1 publisher

Gizmodo Went Looking for the Google Glass Punch. It Found Property Damage.

The collective memory of Glassholes getting hit has no documented punch behind it, which means what shut Google Glass out of bars was a story about being recorded, and Meta's glasses are being read the same way.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−12
Incentives45
Confidence55
productOne report1 publisher

Withholding a safety default from 15 million users is now a discovery problem

Blackburn and Blumenthal want a list of every TikTok experiment that held back a safety feature. That request, not the letter's adjectives, is the part product teams should read.

Publishers:latimes.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption62
Hype gap+18
Incentives74
Confidence54
buildOne report1 publisher

A "$100M contract" that is a prize ceiling: how to read a vendor's procurement claim

NODA AI says the Department of War awarded it $100 million. The government notice describes an open prize challenge worth up to $100 million across multiple awards.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption24
Hype gap+68
Incentives78
Confidence60
investOne report1 publisher

A 15M bpd claim and a 4-8M bpd count: Gulf export data has stopped being a planning input

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Middle East flows are back to about 15 million bpd. Tanker trackers put Hormuz alone at 4 to 8 million, and the spread is the number that matters.

Reality

Evidence28
Adoption35
Hype gap+45
Incentives60
Confidence30