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AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - California's "red mirage" feeds MAGA fraud frenzy

LOS ANGELES — California's plodding, weeks-long tally of mail-in ballots has become Exhibit A in President Trump's campaign to delegitimize the November midterms. Why it matters: Glacial vote-counting in the nation's most populous state has produced a familiar, flammable ritual: Late mail piles up, officials plead for patience, and early Republican leads slowly vanish. - Democrats and election officials say the long wait is the price of counting every legal vote, including mail ballots postmarked by Election Day that take days to arrive. - Trump and his allies treat the process itself as proof of fraud, without producing evidence of illegal votes. Driving the news: Spencer Pratt, the reality TV star running a viral campaign for L.A.…

AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Apple finally ships its AI assistant upgrade

Apple is finally delivering the conversational and context-aware AI that it promised two years ago . Its rivals have already moved on to agents. Why it matters: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other AI companies are pushing beyond chatbots toward agentic tools that can write code, search through complex file structures, use apps and handle workplace tasks. Driving the news: At its annual developers conference Monday, Apple announced that its long-delayed Siri overhaul will arrive this fall, built through Apple's partnership with Google . - Apple says its new conversational assistant is "profoundly more capable" and includes greater "personal context understanding" that can surface relevant information from texts, emails, photos, and more.…