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‘Duck Dynasty’: Longtime Employee Retires After More Than 25 Years

Plus, Willie Robertson fulfills a lifelong dream.

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Apr 25 • 11:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • cbs19news.com
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Elon Musk among donors to Cincinnati congressmen

Campaign contribution documents revealed notable donations made to congressional candidates in Greater Cincinnati.

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Apr 25 • 8:09 AM EDT • Politics • cincinnati.com
Opinion | The Political Defeats of Elon Musk

His political malpractice will loom large in the history of Trump 2.0.

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Apr 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Sheriff's Office investigates Chelsea business felony theft

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is searching for the culprit of a felony theft involving a Chelsea business.

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Apr 24 • 6:17 PM EDT • Business • abc3340.com
How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses

The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.

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Apr 24 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses

The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.

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How Undergraduate Business Education Is Evolving For Real-World Impact

How Elon University is redefining undergraduate business education through hands-on learning, mentorship and real-world experience.

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Apr 23 • 4:42 PM EDT • Business • poetsandquantsforundergrads.com
Smoking pot near a Louisiana campus could become a felony: ‘Ever been to an LSU football game?’

Louisiana could soon make it a felony to smoke marijuana within 2,000 feet of any school or college campus in Louisiana as some state leaders say people are flagrantly violating drug laws at college football games.

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Apr 23 • 12:22 PM EDT • Politics • nola.com
Is Elon Musk building the AI Avengers?

As the internet digests the SpaceX-Cursor deal, we've got the scoop on another startup Musk explored a partnership with.

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Apr 23 • 8:37 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
SpaceX and Cursor: What smart people are saying about the $60B deal

Partnering with Cursor could be a crucial step for Elon Musk to get ahead of AI rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Apr 22 • 6:43 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Elon Musk explores Mistral partnership to take on AI rivals

Musk is eyeing a collaboration with French startup Mistral to help xAI catch Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Apr 22 • 2:47 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Inside the AI coding startup Elon Musk is betting $60 billion on

The 4-year-old startup just propelled SpaceX in the AI coding race.

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Apr 22 • 12:59 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for right to buy coding startup Cursor

SpaceX announced a partnership with coding startup Cursor that will give Elon Musk's a major foothold in the AI coding race.

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Apr 21 • 7:36 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
When the CEO Becomes the Brand

Research suggests that Elon Musk’s political stance appears to have reshaped how different groups perceive Tesla. Overall sales trends hint at trouble. The company’s growth stalled in 2024, and deliveries fell 8.5% in 2025. But those headline numbers hide what is happening beneath the surface. When the data is broken down by political orientation and by changes in views of Musk, a more complicated pattern emerges. Among right-leaning respondents and those whose opinion of Musk has improved, Tesla’s brand appeal is significantly higher and willingness to pay exceeds that for many competing brands, including Ford, Chevrolet, and Rivian. Among left-leaning consumers and those whose view of Musk has worsened, the opposite is true: Preference and willingness to pay for Tesla drop sharply. The outcome is not a uniform decline but a polarization of demand. Some consumers appear to feel alienated, while others feel more aligned with the brand. This raises an important strategic question of whether companies can influence purchasing decisions across these divided segments by strengthening the underlying value proposition.

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Apr 21 • 8:05 AM EDT • Politics • hbr.org
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Tennis duo Sabalenka and Alcaraz sweep top Laureus sports honours

Barcelona's Yamal bags Young Sportsperson of the Year accolade a year after winning the Breakthrough award in 2025.

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Apr 21 • 3:44 AM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com
Image: Barcelona finalise next artist for El Clasico shirt

Barcelona are once again blending football with global music culture, and this time, the spotlight is on Olivia Rodrigo.According to Mundo Deportivo, the Catalan giants have already decided the featur...

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Apr 21 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chris Dockrill Announces Retirement

Elon Alumnus, Hall Of Fame Inductee Led Phoenix Women's Golf For 27 Seasons

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Apr 20 • 3:31 PM EDT • Sports • caasports.com
Elon students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society

“What’s so brave about being sick?” It’s a question Prosanta Chakrabarty often asked himself in the early days of his ongoing fight against cancer. It wasn’t until initial treatment...

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Apr 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • elon.edu
The data behind Delaware's ‘corporate exodus’ tells a different story

Despite Tesla, Dropbox and Coinbase leaving, the state captured a larger share of US business formation in 2024 than before Elon Musk told founders to flee — but there are early warning signs.

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Apr 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • technical.ly
Digital Science Introduces Compass by Dimensions to Transform Medical Affairs Publication Insights

Compass unifies citation data and attention metrics in a single solution for real-time publication intelligenceLondon, United Kingdom--(Newsfile Corp. - April 20, 2026) - Digital Science, a leading technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, today announced the launch of Compass by Dimensions, a dedicated publication impact tracking solution designed for medical affairs teams.Compass - initially available to publication planners and medical affairs professionals in a..

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Apr 20 • 5:01 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Barcelona winter signing suffers unfortunate knee injury

Barcelona have been handed a concerning update regarding one of their emerging defensive prospects, Patricio Pacifico, following a worrying incident during the recent Barça Atletic fixture against UE...

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Apr 20 • 3:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Barcelona star rejects contract renewal offer

A member of the defensive ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has knocked back a contract renewal proposal from the club.That’s according to Mundo Deportivo, who highlight Andreas Christensen as the B...

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Apr 19 • 5:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Barcelona to beat Chelsea to signing of highly-rated midfielder

Barcelona are set for a big summer of transfers, as they plan to add extra quality to Hansi Flick’s squad for next season. Sporting director Deco will also oversee more La Masia additions, and the l...

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Apr 19 • 11:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Defender knocks back Barcelona contract offer

Barcelona are gearing up for a huge summer, but before the transfer window opens, they have a number of contract situations to resolve. The big one centres on Robert Lewandowski, but another whose cur...

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Apr 19 • 10:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

It took 120 years to figure out the forgotten fossil belonged to an extinct giant echidna.

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Apr 19 • 10:07 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com
How much retail workers earned last year at Costco, Walmart, and more

For many US workers, retail is a first job; for others, it's a lifelong career. Here's how much the typical workers made last year at top retailers.

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Apr 19 • 5:59 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
WrestleMania 42: Rhodes banishes McAfee but Orton gets last laugh

With blood soaking Cody Rhodes’ bleach blonde hair, Randy Orton stood over the newly-crowned champion with the belt he believed still rightly belonged to himself.

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Apr 18 • 11:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Is watermelon good for you? Experts explain calories, sugar content

Watermelon is a summer staple known for its refreshing taste and high water content, but many people wonder how healthy it really is.

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Apr 18 • 10:01 AM EDT • Health • usatoday.com
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Barcelona at breaking point over Lewandowski and Rashford decisions

Barcelona are heading into a defining phase of their summer planning, with two major attacking decisions staring right in their face. The situations involving Robert Lewandowski and Marcus Rashford a...

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Apr 18 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Barcelona finally seeing results as key versatile playmaker finds form

At one point this season, it looked like Dani Olmo was slipping down the pecking order at Barcelona. The Spaniard faced intense competition from Fermin Lopez for the attacking midfield role, with the...

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Apr 18 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Barcelona Eyes Atlético Madrid's Sorloth As Potential Lewandowski Successor

Barcelona have reportedly initiated contact with Atletico Madrid striker Alexander Sorloth as Hansi Flick seeks a long-term successor for Robert Lewandowski.

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Apr 17 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
21st Amendment Brewery is back in business — New School Beer + Cider

Philadelphia's Evil Genius is bringing beloved 21st Amendment beers, including Hell or High Watermelon, Brew Free! or Die IPA, and more back to its coast-to-coast distribution footprint

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Apr 17 • 1:34 PM EDT • Business • newschoolbeer.com
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Barcelona’s €30m Question For Man United Forward

Rashford’s Barcelona Future in Doubt as Transfer Reality BitesCredit to Marca for the original reporting, which paints an increasingly uncertain picture around Marcus Rashford and his long term futu...

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Apr 17 • 1:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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'Allies, not vassals': How Meloni's break with Trump became a political moment for Italy

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is managing the repercussions of a public rebuke from US President Donald Trump this week over the pope, Iran and a defence deal with Israel. It's a rupture that…

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Apr 17 • 1:31 AM EDT • Politics • france24.com
Barcelona have plan in place for Hansi Flick contract talks

Barcelona have a number of contract situations to resolve in the lead-up to the summer transfer window, and of them is Hansi Flick’s. The German manager’s current deal expires in 2027, but there i...

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Apr 16 • 9:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Indiana RB Kaelon Black spent last night in O'Hare
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Apr 15 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Civic belonging in the social media era

Gen Z is politically aware online, but this doesn't always translate to real-world engagement or voting, leading to burnout and fear.

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Apr 15 • 3:33 PM EDT • Politics • detroitnews.com
The Science Behind Alaska's Northern Lights

If you want to plan a trip to see the northern lights, Alaska belongs at the top of your list. Here's why – starting with the science.

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Apr 15 • 1:32 PM EDT • Science • travelalaska.com
River City Science Academy teacher arrested, accused ‘grooming’ student using messages on Canva app

A River City Science Academy teacher was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony counts alleging he solicited a romantic relationship with a student and unlawfully used a communication device, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

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Apr 15 • 12:55 PM EDT • Science • news4jax.com
Nastassia Harrison ’28 blends art and science in pursuit of physical therapy through the help of her scholarships

Although she grew up playing nearly every sport in Warren County, North Carolina, Nastassia Harrison ’28 has loved dancing since she was three years old. “My dad would put me in any...

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Apr 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • elon.edu
🎥 Raphinha sparks row with Atleti fans after elimination

FC Barcelona's elimination in the Champions League quarter-finals has left an open wound and an unexpected central figure: Raphinha.The Brazilian winger did not hide his frustration after losing to At...

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Apr 15 • 3:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Atletico Madrid 1-2 Barcelona (agg: 3-2): Diego Simeone's men lose on the night but reach Champions League semi-finals

Atletico Madrid reached the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2016/17 after a 3-2 aggregate win over Barcelona.

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Apr 14 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Get Real With SOMD Politics: Roy Alvey Discusses Spending, Development And County Priorities

ST. MARY’S COUNTY, Md. — On a recent episode of “Get Real with Southern Maryland Politics,” host Chris Hill sat down with St. Mary’s County Commissioner President candidate Roy Alvey for a wide-ranging conversation about his background, priorities, and vision for St. Mary’s County. A lifelong St. Mary’s County resident, Alvey emphasized his deep roots in the […]

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LIVE: Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona

Follow the build-up and live text commentary of the game as Barcelona look to come back from 2-0 first leg defeat.

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Apr 14 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • aljazeera.com
How a Florida State University student entrepreneur is building a bakery business for good

A Florida State University student in the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship is turning a lifelong health challenge into a purpose-driven business that

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Apr 14 • 9:32 AM EDT • Business • news.fsu.edu
Barcelona squad named for Atlético 2nd leg

Hansi Flick has called up 24 players for Tuesday’s clash

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Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona – Match preview and team news

Atletico Madrid is gearing up for their Champions League quarter-final second leg as they welcome Barcelona to the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on Tuesday.Diego Simeone’s men head into this match with a...

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Atlético Madrid vs Barcelona, Champions League: Preview

Barça travel to the capital looking to overturn a two-goal deficit and book a spot in the semis

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Apr 13 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
WECT INVESTIGATES: Hampstead business owner faces felony charge, state investigation

A Hampstead pool contractor faces a felony charge after accusations of taking customers' money and not finishing projects.

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Apr 13 • 7:08 PM EDT • Business • wect.com
Tesla is selling 250 invite-only Model S 'Signatures' for $160,000

Elon Musk's automaker is inviting a select group of fans to purchase limited-edition versions of its soon-to-be-discontinued Model X and S luxury EVs.

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Apr 13 • 7:15 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Will Musk ever be forced to explain what he did inside DOGE?

Elon Musk was ubiquitous in Washington last spring, wielding unprecedented power helping the Trump administration reshape and, in some cases, dismantle federal agencies across the government.

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New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked

Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight.

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Apr 13 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
As WhatsApp faces lawsuit, Elon Musk launches 'no tracking' messaging app XChat

App will offer encrypted chats, voice and video calls, large group messaging and disappearing messages, initially for iPhone and iPad users only, with no ads or phone number required to sign up

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Apr 12 • 12:55 PM EDT • Technology • ynetnews.com
Alabama redshirt freshman QB turns heads with spring game performance

Keelon Russell was a five-star recruit in the 2025 class, and he could be in line to take over under center this fall after an electric spring game.

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Apr 12 • 12:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ex-Tesla president mimicked Domino's pizza ordering to boost car sales

A former Tesla boss said he and Elon Musk spotted a problem with the carmaker's website. They turned to Domino's for inspiration.

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Apr 12 • 4:17 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Business People

Ann Bordelon is joining the planned STEM university backed by members of the Walton family as vice president of finance and administration.

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Apr 12 • 3:37 AM EDT • Business • nwaonline.com
Finley: Trump's college sports order is an overreach

President's executive order on transfer portal, NIL has him meddling where he doesn't belong.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • detroitnews.com
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Markquese Bell arrested, Cowboys safety facing drug possession charges

Cowboys safety Markquese Bell was arrested on both felony and misdemeanor drug charges. Here's what to know about his arrest.

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Apr 11 • 1:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Atlético Madrid ‘astounded’ by Barcelona’s refereeing complaints

The fallout from Barcelona’s defeat to Atletico Madrid continues to intensify, with the Madrid-based club now responding to the actions taken by Barcelona following the controversial encounter.After...

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Barcelona vs Espanyol, La Liga: TV & Streaming, Live Thread

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Early weight gain is linked to lifelong health consequences

Putting on weight earlier in life may be more dangerous than previously thought. Researchers found that early adulthood obesity significantly raises the risk of premature death, especially from major diseases like heart disease and diabetes. The longer the body carries excess weight, the greater the damage appears to be. Interestingly, cancer risk in women didn’t follow this pattern, suggesting other biological factors are at play.

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Early weight gain is linked to lifelong health consequences

Putting on weight earlier in life may be more dangerous than previously thought. Researchers found that early adulthood obesity significantly raises the risk of premature death, especially from major diseases like heart disease and diabetes. The longer the body carries excess weight, the greater the damage appears to be. Interestingly, cancer risk in women didn’t follow this pattern, suggesting other biological factors are at play.

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Apr 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • sciencedaily.com
This dreadful run that's weighing Mbappé down 🥶

The black cat?This Friday evening, Real Madrid were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Girona on matchday 31 of La Liga.If Barcelona win this Saturday, the Catalans would move nine points clear of Madrid a...

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Apr 11 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Barcelona face major setback in race for teenage midfield sensation

According to SPORT, Barcelona are closely monitoring Kennet Eichhorn, a highly-rated 16-year-old currently developing at Hertha Berlin. The youngster has emerged as one of the most promising midfield...

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Barcelona vs Espanyol – Predicted lineup and team news

Barcelona will look to make it seven La Liga wins in a row when they host Espanyol at the Camp Nou on Saturday.The Catalan giants have dominated this fixture in recent years — Espanyol haven’t bea...

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The owner and operator of Tipton Construction in Altoona was taken into custody Wednesday for allegedly committing a string of home improvement frauds. John Bailey Tipton II, 44, was arraigned Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Benjamin F. Jones on seven felony counts of making a false statement to induce agreement for home improvement services, five […]

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Peggy shares her experience with the Trek Across Maine and how one bike ride has expanded into a lifelong purpose.

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Barcelona Complains to UEFA Over 'Incomprehensible Refereeing' After UCL Loss

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The ‘oldest octopus’ in the world isn’t an octopus after all, scientists find

The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually belong to the world’s oldest octopus as previously thought.

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MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT DEBUTS EMMIE'S WONDER WARDROBE, A SPARKLING NEW SPIN-OFF OF LITTLE ANGEL, TODAY ON YOUTUBE

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's secret business weapon: Think about existential threats

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Italy’s Meloni Vows to Govern Until End of Five-Year Mandate

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to stay on until the end of her government’s mandate, seeking to stabilize her tenure after a bruising referendum loss last month.

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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni attempts political reset after referendum defeat

Facing voter backlash and an energy-driven economic squeeze, the prime minister is recalibrating her ties with Washington

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Barcelona-Atlético Madrid, PSG-Liverpool live updates, scores: Champions League quarterfinal first legs continue
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LIVE: Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid

Follow the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the all-Spanish quarterfinal first leg clash at Camp Nou.

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McLaren gives F2 champion Leo Fornaroli several F1 tests

Fornaroli tested McLaren’s 2023 car at Barcelona and Silverstone

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Liverpool receive sensational Yan Diomande transfer boost

Barcelona drop out of Diomande raceA report from Spain via Sport Witness now suggests that Liverpool will have one less rival bid to worry about this summer. Barcelona did their due diligence on Dioma...

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Brenda Alexander has the latest in entertainment headlines:

Are Kim K & Lewis Hamilton dating? Lil Nas X may have caught a break in his felony assault case, and Stephen Colbert's replacement has been announced.

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Man arrested for business arson and burglary in Lynchburg

Donald Collier is charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, arson, burglary, and grand larceny.

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Liberals will try to expand their majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a Tuesday election

One year after Elon Musk donned a cheesehead hat and unsuccessfully poured millions of his personal fortune into a judicial contest in the state, Democrats are hoping to deliver another setback to conservatives in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday.

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Lil Nas X gets mental health diversion in police battery case

Lil Nas X, who was arrested last August, reportedly will enter a two-year mental health diversion program in the latest step to potentially resolve a felony battery case.

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Lil Nas X Granted Mental Health Diversion in LAPD Battery Case

Lil Nas X had will see his felony police battery charges dismissed if he completes a two-year mental health diversion program, a judge said Monday.

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Atletico Madrid CEO “ashamed” by Barcelona red card controversy

Atletico Madrid’s 2-1 defeat to Barcelona on Saturday has been overshadowed by a controversial call made by the refereeing team at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano. Minutes into the second half, Gerard ...

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Dani Olmo rejects lucrative €60m offer to leave Barcelona

The forward is not interested in moving on.

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Is The Tesla Diner A Flop? (Review)

It’s cool to hate the Tesla Diner. Not because it’s a failure (it’s not) but because Elon Musk is associated with it.

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FC Barcelona News: 5 April 2026

A round-up of the latest Barcelona news and rumors

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LIVE: Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona

Follow our live updates, including team news coverage, before our text commentary stream of Spanish top flight match.

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XAI's cofounder chaos, rebuilding is vintage Elon Musk

xAI lost Ross Nordeen, its final non-Musk cofounder, this month. What does the turnover mean for the startup's looming IPO with SpaceX?

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Atlético Madrid vs Barcelona, La Liga: Preview

Barça begin a trio of giant games against Atleti, looking for a big win in the first one to stay in control of the title race

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Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok

Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

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Pete Buttigieg Calls For a Politics of ‘Belonging’

A Kennedy School panel discusses polarization and the uncertain future of American democracy.

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Amazon considering purchase of Covington-based satellite company, reports say

The $9 billion deal between Amazon and Globalstar would give Amazon a boost as it tries to build a satellite network to compete with that of Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk's company SpaceX.

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Meloni’s gamble backfires: a turning point for Italy

The Italian PM has had an ‘aura of political invincibility’ since taking office in 2022, but a referendum on flagship judicial reforms has left her vulnerable

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Apollo and FC Barcelona just proved legacy markets are losing their grip on business

New York and California built dominance over decades. But costs, regulation and red tape is pushing companies and capital to states like Florida.

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Italian football chief resigns after World Cup debacle provoked political outcry

Members of Giorgia Meloni’s coalition urged Gabriele Gravina to step down after Italy lost to Bosnia and Herzegovina earlier this week.

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Real Madrid and Barcelona plan wonderkid acquisitions for summer rebuild

Barcelona are ahead of Real Madrid in the La Liga title race, with Hansi Flick’s side four points clear at the top. But with nine games remaining in the season, Madrid will also fancy their chances...

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Lifelong Tennessee fan is fed up with college sports

A 79-year-old Tennessean says NIL and the transfer portal are destroying college sports. Agree or disagree? Write to letters@knoxnews.com.

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Solanco surprise: Golden Mules upset Lampeter-Strasburg in Section Two baseball opener

To anyone who thought the Section Two baseball race belonged to Lampeter-Strasburg, Solanco offered a second opinion. The Golden Mules pulled off an early-season surprise.

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Barça secure Shane Kluivert's future until 2028

FC Barcelona have officially announced the contract renewal of Shane Kluivert, one of La Masia’s brightest gems.The young Dutch forward has signed a new deal that will keep him at the club for the n...

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