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News budget · FRI 18 SEP 07:30 UTC · compiled 18 SEP 07:00 UTC

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Budget · last 24 h · 120 candidates → 21 groups → 12 run

score = ln(1 + desks moving it) × publisher tier · duplicates collapsed by headline

Slug / storyMovedDecision
Lithium and copper57 candidates · 7 groups

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/ZIMBABWE-FARMERS-SEEK-FUNDS

Zimbabwe farmers seek funds to cash in on China blueberry boom

2RUNS

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/ROBERT-FRIEDLAND-WORLD-MUST

Robert Friedland: The World Must Mine More Copper in 18 Years Than in All of History

finance.biggo.com

2RUNS

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/NORTH-CAROLINA-BANNING-DISPOSAL

North Carolina is banning the disposal of lithium ion batteries in the trash

2RUNS

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/BYD-S-CUTTING-EDGE

BYD's Cutting-Edge EV Battery Tech Is Finally Ready To Hit The Road

2RUNS

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/STOP-THROWING-AWAY-THOSE

Stop throwing away those batteries! NC bans lithium-ion batteries in residential trash headed to the landfill

2HELD

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/WORLD-BANK-GROWS-FOOTPRINT

World Bank grows footprint with more private capital

2HELD

LITHIUM-AND-COPPER/FREEHILL-MINING-ASX-FHS

Freehill Mining (ASX:FHS) Reports Aggregates Revenue Progress Alongside Copper-Gold Activities

kalkine.com.au

1HELD
AI regulation30 candidates · 7 groups

AI-REGULATION/CEOS-CLASH-NEW-CULTURE

As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing

Fortune

2RUNS

AI-REGULATION/OPINION-AMERICAN-EXACTLY-WHAT

Opinion | American AI Regulation Is Exactly What China Wants

WSJ

1RUNS

AI-REGULATION/STEVE-BANNON-BERNIE-SANDERS

Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech ‘Oligarchs’ and Demand A.I. Reforms

The New York Times

1RUNS

AI-REGULATION/GOV-SHAPIRO-CALL-WITHOUT

Gov. Shapiro call for AI regulation without pausing development as safety concerns grow

NBC News

1RUNS

AI-REGULATION/GODFATHER-WARNS-CONGRESS-HAS

‘Godfather of AI’ warns Congress has ‘maybe a year’ left to regulate AI

NBC News

1HELD

AI-REGULATION/NEEDS-HAVE-REASONABLE-GUIDELINES

AI needs to have 'reasonable guidelines,' Palantir's Karp tells CNBC

CNBC

1HELD

AI-REGULATION/UTAH-GOV-SPENCER-COX

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on AI regulation: "If we're wrong, the consequences could be existential"

3HELD
Space launches33 candidates · 7 groups

SPACE-LAUNCHES/CHINA-S-LIJIAN-1

China's Lijian-1 rocket launches 3 satellites for Pakistan

3RUNS

SPACE-LAUNCHES/BEING-SIDELINED-BOEING-S

After being sidelined, Boeing’s Starliner to get starring role in NASA’s spaceflight plans

Ars Technica

1RUNS

SPACE-LAUNCHES/RKLB-STOCK-EYES-BEST

RKLB Stock Eyes Best Week In Over A Month: Rocket Lab Tests Key Neutron Hardware To Take On SpaceX

2RUNS

SPACE-LAUNCHES/CHINA-CONDUCTS-2-SUCCESSFUL

China conducts 2 successful space launches, sends satellites into orbit

Anadolu Ajansı

2RUNS

SPACE-LAUNCHES/VIRGIN-GALACTIC-INSPIRED-RC

Virgin Galactic-Inspired RC Jet Launches a Rocket in Mid-Air

MotorBiscuit

2HELD

SPACE-LAUNCHES/GILMOUR-S-ERIS-ROCKET

Gilmour Space's Eris rocket crashes during historic debut launch in Australia

2HELD

SPACE-LAUNCHES/PALANTIR-ROCKET-LAB-AMONG

Palantir, Rocket Lab among biggest climbers in power ranking

2HELD

This is the cut before the writing. A reader on any plan gets exactly this editor on their own topics; the stories marked RUNS are then written up — headline, three sentences, one cited link each — by the model, in one call, and sent.

Sources

Two query feeds exist for any string — Google News and Bing News, both free, both naming the publisher per item. On top of those, the model proposes up to eight publisher feeds for the topic, and each one is fetched and parsed before it is kept: a model will happily invent a plausible /feed.xml that 404s. A feed is polled once no matter how many readers follow it, and one that fails twenty times in a row is switched off and says so on your topic page.

The editor

Every headline is reduced to a signature and grouped with its rewrites. A group scores ln(1 + desks) × tier, where tier is the most authoritative publisher that moved it — so one Reuters exclusive beats five reprints of a press release, and a story every desk carried beats a story one blog carried. Ties are broken by spreading picks across the window, so a weekly brief covers the week rather than Friday afternoon.

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