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Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines

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With a statutory deadline fast approaching, Congress is immersed in what has become one of its most enduring and internally divisive fights: whether – and how – to preserve the government’s foreign surveillance powers while protecting the civil liberties of Americans whose communications get swept up in the intelligence-gathering. The U.S. House of Representatives voted … Read more

AI-linked fears roil some corners of Wall Street after years of hype and gains

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Stocks surged to records in large part because of hope — and hype — about artificial intelligence. But in recent months, worries about aggressive spending on AI have rippled through Wall Street as investors question whether that spending will materialize into actual profits. And some industries wavered this week as anxieties about the technology intensified, … Read more