Money surges into the Harris campaign
FT News Briefing26 Elo 2024

Money surges into the Harris campaign

Israel’s military launched a wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon on Sunday, small-dollar donations surged to Kamala Harris’s campaign after she replaced Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, and the world’s largest aerospace and defence companies are set to rake in record levels of cash over the next three years. Plus, computer programming might be the first job function to be transformed by the latest wave of AI technology.


Mentioned in this podcast:

Top defence contractors set to rake in record cash

Israel launches strikes in Lebanon

Kamala Harris spends 10 times as much as Trump on digital ad blitz

Kamala Harris raised four times as much cash as Donald Trump in July

AI-powered coding pulls in almost $1bn of funding to claim ‘killer app’ status


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