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- WKZO Adds Battle Creek Simulcast
Midwest Communications flipped 930 WFAT/102.7 W274AQ Battle Creek MI to a simulcast of News/Talk 590 WKZO/W295CL Kalamazoo on Election Day. [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago - Two 99 Ranch Market make abrupt exit in California
One of the locations has served the area for the past 16 years [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago - Silicon Valley’s Very Bad Night
For years, public anxiety and frustration over AI have been mounting. More than 80 percent of Americans think the technology is moving too quickly, and more than 70 percent oppose data-center construction in their area. Meanwhile, tech companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on this election to combat regulations and candidates they deem a threat. Yesterday, months of skirmishes between these two political forces culminated, for the first time, in a nationwide contest. All over the country, Silicon Valley was on the ballot. And for the most part, Silicon Valley lost.Residents of at least 10 states voted on dozens of proposals to restrict data-center development—local moratoriums, new zoning regulations—and several towns recalled mayors accused of putting the interests of data-center companies over those of constituents. Democratic candidates in some of the most consequential Senate races, including Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and Sherrod Brown in Ohio, made AI and data-center regulation central to their campaigns. In California, the home of Silicon Valley, residents voted on a proposed “billionaire tax” that tech executives came out in droves to oppose.[Read: The data-center rebellion is just beginning]Again and again, Americans repudiated the AI boom and Silicon Valley, while candidates who made a point of blasting the tech companies won easily. Dozens of bans and restrictions on data-center development sailed through at the local level, and at least nine governors who support a statewide data-center ban will be in office next year. “The titans of Silicon Valley dig bunkers for themselves and warn that the artificial intelligence they’re creating risks human extinction,” Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia declared in his victory speech. His job, he said, will be to bring “Big Tech to heel.”For a quarter century, tech companies have been able to marshal capital and connections to beat back meaningful regulation with relative ease. In 2024, crypto spent more than $100 million to crush a slate of candidates, including Brown, then a three-time incumbent. But such wealth and influence have perhaps grown too great—yesterday’s results show that reining in Silicon Valley is now an urgent and galvanizing issue in our politics. Although federal regulation seems unlikely under a Trump presidency, towns in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Florida, and elsewhere passed anti-data-center measures, including temporarily banning or advising city governments to ban new data-center construction. More than 30 of these referenda passed, in red and blue counties alike; only one so far, to my… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago - Australian qualifier Rinky Hijikata ends Djokovic’s hopes of making ATP Fi...
Novak Djokovic is out of the race to qualify for the ATP Finals in Turin after a second-round defeat by qualifier Rinky Hijikata at the Paris Masters. [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago - $500 Million Bought Elon NothingHere are a few things $474 million can cover: roughly 77 million Big Macs, about 12,814 Tesla Model 3s, or approximately 2,724 years of a U.S. senator’s average salary. If you’re Elon Musk, it could also buy you one deeply disappointing evening in November.This year, Musk became the single largest non-candidate donor in any election cycle ever. His contributions to campaigns and organizations account for about one-quarter of all campaign donations Republicans received in 2026. More than $168 million of that money went to super PACs supporting the Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who lost yesterday to James Talarico, the first Democrat to be elected to the Senate in Texas in 38 years. Musk gave $216 million to his own political action committee, America PAC, much of that going toward canvassing operations and advertising. Other donations went to either individual Republican candidates or organizations at both state and federal levels. In almost every instance, that money failed to buy the richest man in the world the results he wanted.[Read: You can believe everything]What does this mean for Musk? One could see it as a repudiation of the near trillionaire—a suggestion that he and the causes he stands for have become a toxic political influence. Though he was helpful in Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, he has fumbled politically over the past two years, including with his disastrous run advising the Department of Government Efficiency. In 2025, he backed a failed state-supreme-court campaign in Wisconsin. Musk’s money in Paxton’s race may have backfired, signaling to Texans that a tech oligarch was trying to buy an election. At the very least, Musk’s influence seems to have galvanized Talarico. He made Musk and other rich donors a centerpiece of his campaign. During his victory speech last night, Talarico said the state sent a message to “every billionaire megadonor, every trillionaire megadonor,” and “to the people at the top: We will not be conquered.”Musk was just the most prominent member of an entourage of Silicon Valley executives and investors who have enthusiastically supported Trump in his second term. In Trump and the MAGA movement, this Tech Right coalition saw opportunities for favorable legislation on issues such as crypto and little to no regulation on AI buildout and safety. Culturally, MAGA offered this cohort a permission structure for loud and proud anti-wokeness. Impressed by their money and perceived power, Trump let Silicon Valley leaders into government operations,… [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago
- Grocers in Europe try to find answers to prevent cyberattacksThere is an immediate solution, but it is not a long-term fix [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago
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