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Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party (Washington Post)
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Washington Post: Sources detail how JD Vance, David Sacks, and others brokered a fragile truce between President Trump and Elon Musk, who threatened to fund an America Party — JD Vance played a key role brokering a reconciliation between the president and h…
Dec 29, 2025, 1:35 PM
Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data (Alfred Ng/Politico)
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Alfred Ng / Politico: Federal records show ICE has increased its surveillance tech spending to $300M+ under Trump, as the White House lowered privacy guardrails around citizens' data — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is buying millions of dolla…
Dec 26, 2025, 6:50 PM
A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
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Aishvarya Kavi / New York Times: A US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship — Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinfo…
Dec 26, 2025, 12:05 AM
Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
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Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal: Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies — Trump signs annual National Defense Authorization Act into law with provisions…
Dec 19, 2025, 4:15 AM
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets — The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of…
Dec 19, 2025, 2:25 AM
US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign ...)
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Chris McGuire / Council on Foreign Relations: US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening — Executive Summary — On December 8, the Trump ad…
Dec 19, 2025, 1:50 AM
Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)
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Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries — President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to turn to privat…
Dec 13, 2025, 3:30 PM
In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises "significant antitrust problems" (Semafor)
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Semafor: In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems” — THE SCOOP — A key Republican senator Friday joined the mounting opposition in Washingto…
Dec 13, 2025, 6:05 AM
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
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Axios: Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump — States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed…
Dec 12, 2025, 6:30 PM
Jensen Huang says "we don't know" if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he's unsure whether China wou…
Dec 4, 2025, 12:10 AM
Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)
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Axios: Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill — Pressure from President Trump to block state-level AI regulation is falling short on Capitol H…
Dec 2, 2025, 9:35 PM
A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg)
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Miles J. Herszenhorn / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions — One of the rare cryptocurrency prosecutions under the Trump a…
Nov 20, 2025, 3:55 AM
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
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Tina Nguyen / The Verge: A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the AG — Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI reg…
Nov 19, 2025, 11:45 PM
Sources: the US Commerce Department plans to approve the sale of up to 35K of Nvidia's GB300 servers or their equivalents to G42 and Humain each (Wall Street Journal)
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Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US Commerce Department plans to approve the sale of up to 35K of Nvidia's GB300 servers or their equivalents to G42 and Humain each — The deal follows talks between President Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed b…
Nov 19, 2025, 10:50 PM
Trump says the US needs a "Federal Standard" governing oversight of AI instead of "a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes", otherwise China will catch up (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
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Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” governing oversight of AI instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes”, otherwise China will catch up — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard g…
Nov 18, 2025, 11:40 PM
Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration's cuts and prepare for a potential US conflict with China (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
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Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration's cuts and prepare for a potential US conflict with China — The agency will also change some of its workforce policies t…
Nov 17, 2025, 10:10 PM
After Trump and Xi's meeting, China says it will suspend its rare earth export controls issued on October 9 for one year, but says nothing about earlier limits (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times: After Trump and Xi's meeting, China says it will suspend its rare earth export controls issued on October 9 for one year, but says nothing about earlier limits — China has suspended export controls announced this month, but …
Oct 30, 2025, 11:40 AM
China's Commerce Ministry says it will work with the US to resolve issues related to TikTok, stopping short of saying it agreed to a deal touted by Trump (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
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Mark Anderson / Bloomberg: China's Commerce Ministry says it will work with the US to resolve issues related to TikTok, stopping short of saying it agreed to a deal touted by Trump — Beijing pledged to work with Washington to resolve the fate of TikTok's US…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:45 AM
President Trump and Xi Jinping agree a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal expired on November 10 (New York Times)
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New York Times: President Trump and Xi Jinping agree a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal expired on November 10 — China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth…
Oct 30, 2025, 10:15 AM
President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
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Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: President Trump says he and Xi Jinping discussed Nvidia and other chipmakers' access to China, and that they didn't discuss approving sales of Blackwell chips — US President Donald Trump said he didn't discuss approving sales …
Oct 30, 2025, 9:50 AM
EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
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Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: EU accuses Meta under DSA of failing to give users easy ways to flag illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in preliminary findings — Allegations against Facebook and Instagram owner risk ire o…
Oct 24, 2025, 10:40 AM
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urges FERC to limit the process for connecting data centers to power grids to 60 days, a process that typically takes years — The Trump administration is pushing regulators to drastically accelerate the process of…
Oct 24, 2025, 1:20 AM
Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of "an abundance of caution" around Dreamforce (Ari Levy/CNBC)
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Ari Levy / CNBC: Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support …
Oct 17, 2025, 8:26 PM
Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile (David Ingram/NBC News)
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David Ingram / NBC News: Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile — The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest of several challenges to the Tr…
Oct 17, 2025, 6:35 AM
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