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By Robert ReichJuly 10, 2026 in Substack Friends, Through the end of June, about $3.2 trillion in AI deals have occurred this year. That’s a 45 percent jump from a year earlier, according to Dealogic, a data provider. It’s the most spent on deal-making over a half-year period in at least a decade. Many of these were truly giant deals —

By: Julia Shapero; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the leaders of several major labor unions warned Thursday about the risks AI poses to workers amid concerns about the technology’s ability to replace jobs. Sanders, who is pushing for a moratorium on data center construction, argued that AI could displace both blue-collar and white-collar workers. “How the hell do

By: Matt Sledge; The Intercept Despite their defeat by Senate Republicans, bills seeking to block arms sales to Israel found widespread Democratic support. Democratic senators overwhelmingly voted to block bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel on Wednesday, in a reflection of the Jewish state’s plummeting stock among party rank-and-file and growing anger over the war with Iran. The Democratic votes

By: Torrie Herrington; VTDigger They announced a bill that aims to keep professional sports franchises in their local communities. The Dodgers left Brooklyn after the 1957 season. Sen. Bernie Sanders is still upset about it. He and Rep. Greg Casar announced Thursday they will introduce new legislation meant to keep professional sports franchises in their home communities. “I can remember

By: Dharna Noor; The Guardian Lawmakers say moratorium on construction would buy time to create strong, federal guardrails for AI Amid an unprecedented energy crisis and the rapid buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure, progressive lawmakers have unveiled a new policy to place a moratorium on the construction of AI datacenters. “Despite the extraordinary importance of this issue and its impact

By: Stephen Groves; AP News The resolution has virtually no chance of becoming law, but allows Sanders to force a vote that will put senators on the record over whether they support Trump’s decision to sell bombs to Israel during the war with Iran. The independent senator from Vermont has been an ardent critic of Israel’s actions in the region,