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June deadline approaches for Hawthorne sale process

Qualified buyers have until June 26 to submit bids for Hawthorne Race Course as the historic Illinois racetrack seeks a buyer or investor during its ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. “The 108-acre Hawthorne Race Course property just west of Chicago…

New York sports betting statements bill advances

A proposal that would require online sports betting companies in New York to send detailed monthly account statements to customers has now cleared both chambers of the state Legislature. Read moreSnap alums unveil Ghost Angels fundAssemblymember Rebecca Kassay introduced Assembly…

Sam Altman Eyes Bernie Sanders as His Pope

After Anthropic got an invitation from Pope Leo XIV for his encyclical on artificial intelligence, OpenAI is looking for its own moral authority to latch onto. It seems that Altman and company have chosen Bernie Sanders. After the Senator announced…

Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?

Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s…