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From Techmeme: Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

From memeorandum: President Donald Trump Returns To The Hugh Hewitt Show (Hugh Hewitt/The Hugh Hewitt Show)

From memeorandum: Ukraine's fight against Russia is going better than you might think (Joshua Keating/Vox)

From memeorandum: Inside Trump's assault on public records (Josephine Walker/Axios)

From memeorandum: How Trump Turned His Ballroom into a Midterm Gift for Democrats (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

From memeorandum: Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme "Locked Up." Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges. (Raquel Rutledge/ProPublica)

From memeorandum: Senate Republicans Seek $1 Billion for White House Ballroom Security (Igor Bobic/NOTUS)

From memeorandum: Exclusive: VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti (Brian Todd/CNN)

From memeorandum: Ken Paxton Narrowly Leads John Cornyn in Bruising Texas GOP Race (Joe Lovinger/Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

From Techmeme: Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

From Techmeme: Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (Nikkei Asia)

From memeorandum: 'When You Think of It, We Shouldn't Even Have an Election' — President Trump hates to lose. (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)

From memeorandum: Inside the heated clash over the DHS 'master plan' for deportations (Julia Ainsley/NBC News)

From memeorandum: Trump Promised Transparency in Venezuela, but Oil Secrets Linger (New York Times)

From Techmeme: a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (Yogita Khatri/The Block)