The U.S. Justice Department sued Alphabet's Google on Tuesday, marking the third antitrust lawsuit filed against a tech giant since the Trump administration kicked off investigations of the platforms and the Biden administration pledged to press on with the probes.
Mark Zuckerberg says this will be the "year of efficiency" at Meta, signaling more cuts ahead.His comments reflect a new reality for tech: The era of deep
There’s a new TikTok trend and meme where people use AI generated voices of public figures like President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro, and others to narrate videos from games like Minecraft.
The US government is reviewing a policy that permits certain US exports to continue to Huawei, despite an overall push by the Trump and Biden administrations to block the Chinese telecommunications giant from receiving American technology.
A Trump administration policy that allowed companies to ship some U.S. technology below the “5G level” to China’s blacklisted telecommunications equipment maker Huawei is “under assessment,” a key U.S. official said on Tuesday.
"Dozens of major companies in the United States and China are racing to develop vertical takeoff and landing vehicles for families and individuals," Trump said.
Trump, the top Republican 2024 presidential candidate, also called for the government to help the U.S. beat China in developing flying personal vehicles.
Research laboratory Midjourney has paused free trials of its image-generation software after users cranked out realistic deepfakes, including of former US president Donald Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis in a puffer jacket.
People were recently baffled by AI art of Donald Trump being aggressively arrested and Pope Francis in a Balenciaga coat circulating widely online. They were fakes — but incredibly convincing ones. Both were created by AI Midjourney, a program that’s rapidly changing art and graphics design.
The billionaire says his new artificial intelligence platform, which has a similar name to Donald Trump’s Truth Social, will seek to understand the nature of the universe.
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U.S.-China tensions over semiconductors began with the Trump administration's trade war and have ratcheted up under President Joe Biden's leadership as Washington looks to undercut Beijing's efforts to build its high-tech industry.
Google will not have to face allegations by dozens of states that the tech giant’s design of its search results page has harmed rivals, such as Yelp or Expedia, a federal judge ruled in an opinion unsealed Friday, just weeks before the closely watched antitrust case is set to go to trial.
A conservative news network host has furiously denied accusations he was duped into having an interview with an artificial intelligence bot instead of former President Donald Trump.
TikTok, which is used by more than 150 million Americans, has proven to be resilient in the face of pressure from the Trump and Biden administrations, and lawmakers.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former fixer and lawyer, said in court papers unsealed on Friday that he mistakenly gave his attorney fake case citations generated by an artificial intelligence program that made their way into an official court filing.
Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, used Google Bard to cite made-up legal cases that ended up in a federal court. Cohen admitted in unsealed court papers that he passed on documents referencing bogus cases to his lawyer, who then relayed them to a federal judge.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts raised concerns about the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the US judicial system in an annual report released Sunday, warning that the emerging technology could risk “dehumanizing the law” and imperiling fair treatment in the justice system.
Some say these images shows how Black people can be used as stereotypical props. Others point to larger problems with AI-fueled misinformation and the election.
Critics accuse Yass of bankrolling an army of lobbyists and orchestrating a bare-knuckle pressure campaign to protect TikTok — including by leveraging his nascent relationship with former President Donald Trump.
The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from creating fake images of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to tests of the AI tool by The Associated Press
The former president claimed that the 32 videos shown of him during the testimony from Special Counsel Robert Hur were created by AI. We found all of them.
Donald Trump declared Venezuela to be run by a dictator, referencing the recent highly contentious presidential election. He also criticized the country’s crime rates and accused the government of moving criminals into the United States. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government has threatened to crack down on opposition leaders and international reactions to the election have been […]
Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, criticized current leadership for the stock market downturn and economic indicators. VP Kamala Harris projected optimism and emphasized economic opportunities. The economy and potential Federal Reserve actions could impact voter perceptions before the election.
This summary covers various US domestic news topics, including the testing of an online voting platform in Las Vegas, Travis Scott's release from Paris police, the Trump campaign hacking claims, and more. It also highlights the Biden administration's decision to lift an arms sales ban to Saudi Arabia and recent poll data showing Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in three battleground states.
Elon Musk will interview former President Donald Trump on X, with system scaling tests to ensure smooth performance due to expected high traffic during the event.
X, formerly Twitter, just gave premium users access to Grok 2.0, an image generator that seems to have almost no filters. The chatbot has been used to depict Kamala Harris and Donald Trump doing drugs, branding guns, and committing acts of terrorism.
When former President Donald Trump reposted a fake image of Taylor Swift striking a pose like the iconic Uncle Sam recruiting poster, it pushed to the forefront a topic that goes beyond politics: unauthorized digital replicas.
The latetst -- and most surprising -- to come out in support of the bill is billionaire Elon Musk, the Donald Trump-supporting, often regulation-averse Tesla CEO and X owner.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was left out of Montana's early absentee ballots after a system glitch, leaving former President Donald Trump and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the only listed options for voters.
A group helping to lay the groundwork for a future Donald Trump administration said its computer systems were breached, marking the second known instance that people supporting the former president
Storied investor Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures, and more recently one of the first checks into OpenAI, veered off topic during a
Elon Musk's goal of sending humans to Mars gains momentum under President-elect Donald Trump. Trump's policies may prioritize Mars missions over the current NASA moon program. SpaceX, led by Musk, could play a significant role, moving NASA's focus towards uncrewed Mars missions in the near future.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Johns Hopkins surgeon Martin Makary to head the FDA. Makary, known for his views on natural immunity and opposition to COVID vaccine mandates, could bring unconventional changes to the influential agency responsible for overseeing drugs, food safety, and medical devices.
Donald Trump has appointed Andrew Ferguson as the FTC Chair, aiming to enforce antitrust laws against Big Tech and promote free speech. The appointment signals a shift towards conservative perspectives in tackling perceived censorship and regulating major tech companies under a pro-innovation approach.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Major businesses like Meta Platforms and Amazon are contributing to Trump's inaugural fund, highlighting the ongoing interaction between Trump's administration and tech giants amidst European regulatory scrutiny.
Washington, United States - President-elect Donald Trump's repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the
President-elect Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to delay a law demanding TikTok's sale or ban. The decision impacts TikTok's continued operation in the U.S., with arguments set for Jan. 10. Trump, shifting from his prior stance, seeks to negotiate a political solution.
"This is a bipartisan situation — we have to work initially with Biden, and then midday, Trump will be the person who will have to close the deal," O'Leary said.
The Biden administration released guidance for clean energy tax credits, while a new Cyber Trust Mark rates internet device security. Seattle fires a police officer over a student's death. The Oregon ban on secret recordings is upheld. Trump's legal woes continue, including a block on a prosecutor's report.
Meta Platforms is dismantling its U.S. fact-checking program and altering content moderation policies in response to criticism from conservatives. The move comes as Mark Zuckerberg aims to repair relations with President-elect Trump. These changes prioritize free speech and reduce proactive content scanning on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Wednesday's US news highlights include Los Angeles wildfires fueled by strong winds, Trump team's request for diplomats' resignations, a Gaza ceasefire deal featuring Biden and Trump's claims, TikTok's potential shutdown, and a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for flight delays.
TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban , which President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order on his first
President Donald Trump said he is in favor of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok as he offered his latest thinking on what a deal might look like to save the US operations of the social media platform.
The inability of Meta's AI chatbot to identify the current president of the United States was elevated to urgent status by the Facebook owner this week, requiring a fast fix, a person familiar with the issue said. Republican Donald Trump was inaugurated as president on Monday, succeeding Democrat Joe Biden.
The Trump administration plans a deal where Oracle and outside investors take control of TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake. The move aims to address national security concerns over data misuse. However, the terms are still under negotiation.
"I've been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular, coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive method,"...
Amid growing uncertainty over TikTok’s future in the US, President Trump had said that he was open to Musk taking over the ByteDance-owned app if he wanted to do so.
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok's
The event aims to address how to harness the potential of artificial intelligence so that it benefits everyone, while containing the technology’s myriad risks.
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Google is urging President Trump’s Justice Department to abandon plans to break up its illegal monopoly over online search – and argued that doing so would jeopardize national security.
There is a good chance that Google will be forced to sell off its Chrome browser, as the U.S. Department of Justice under Donald Trump is continuing...
President Donald Trump announced that TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, must finalize a deal to sell the app, used by 170 million Americans, before Saturday. The deadline was set to ensure TikTok finds a non-Chinese buyer or faces a U.S. ban due to national security concerns.
As of now, Apple does not produce any smartphone in the US. China is the biggest manufacturer of iPhones, while facilities in India produce around 40 million units per year (about 15 per cent of Apple's annual output).
Stringent U.S. immigration in the long-term could attract tech workers to Vancouver, but barriers like affordability are hindering short-term attraction
President Trump faces legal and economic challenges while pursuing his goal to move iPhone manufacturing to the U.S. Experts highlight tariffs and technological hurdles, suggesting the IEEPA tool might be stretched to accommodate Trump's measures, but this could lead to significant price increases for consumers.
Elon Musk plans to send an uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026. Despite recent test-flight setbacks, SpaceX's timeline remains ambitious. Musk shared these plans in a video presentation, shortly after announcing his departure from a campaign role in the Trump administration.
Recent developments in the space industry have caused ripples worldwide. A public fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump risks $22 billion in SpaceX contracts, potentially derailing U.S. space endeavors. Meanwhile, Japan's ispace experienced another lunar landing failure, and Boeing's Starliner faces delays in crewed flights, complicating NASA's plans.
Storm streamers are using radars and AI robots to predict extreme weather for millions of YouTube subscribers, in some cases faster than the National Weather Service, which has been gutted by DOGE.
A finales de mayo, la administración estadounidense dio un nuevo paso en su estrategia para frenar la industria china de semiconductores. Tras comprobar que impedir el acceso a su tecnología no había sido suficiente para detener el avance del país liderado po…
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is…
Palantir has never had a great reputation. Even before it teamed up with Trump to create a massive, abusable database of American residents’ information, it was working with forward-looking cop shops, that wanted similar massive, abusable databases of their o…
We’ve noted many times that there are two major reasons the U.S. doesn’t have a functional privacy law for the modern internet era. One, we’re too corrupt and greedy to do the right thing, causing us to prioritize making money over literally everything else —…
As you’ll likely recall, in late 2023, Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck yourself” and “don’t advertise” in response to a question about advertisers feeling uncomfortable placing their brands next to the kind of content that Musk was promoting via the Ex…
The US Department of Transportation wants to make it easier for automakers and tech companies to deploy self-driving cars without traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals. In a letter sent to stakeholders, the department said it would streamline r…
Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland
Comment The boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.…
President Trump is reportedly set to extend the deadline for the sale of TikTok for a third time -- as the threat of a U.S. ban looms next week (June 19.)
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In April, DJI urged the US government to start the mandated security audit of its business -- an audit congress ordered as part of a structured approach for evaluating the security concerns of Chinese-owned companies. Now half a year has passed and DJI says t…
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“My request to all of you is: Please, become rich off selling to the United States Army.”
This was Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s parting message at the end of his Exchange session at the AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness, earlier this month.
It was th…
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Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will extend the looming TikTok ban for another 90 days later this week, the White House said today (via Axios). It will be the third extension Trump has put in place since taking office in January.
Trump's second TikTok extens…
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The White House confirmed today that President Donald Trump will sign a new executive order giving TikTok 90 days to avoid a U.S. ban. This marks the third time Trump has delayed enforcement of the law that technically went into effect in January.
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Taiwan has added China's leading foundry operator Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) and IT giant Huawei to its export control list. The move effectively blacklists the duo from doing business with the chip manufact…
If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it’s this: Modern science, for all its remarkable capabilities, still remains far too dependent on one of …
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President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok a 90-day extension in enforcement of the sale-or-ban law, marking his third extension — New York CNN — — TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President …
Back in February, I flew to Amsterdam to report on a high-stakes experiment the city had recently conducted: a pilot program for what it called Smart Check, which was its attempt to create an effective, fair, and unbiased predictive algorithm to try to detect…
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Tech CEOs and politicians alike are preparing for the day that superintelligent AI takes over, whilst failing to deal with the issues in front of them – from copyright to autonomous killing machines
Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’
The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell it…
As expected, President Donald Trump will extend TikTok's sale deadline for the third time, giving the popular social media app yet another lengthy reprieve to comply with the law.
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The U.S. State Department said it is restarting the process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review.
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to brin…
President Trump has signed yet another executive order delaying enforcement of the TikTok ban by 90 days, so companies like Apple, Google, and ByteDance don't have to worry about fines.TikTok will continue to operate in the US at least until September 17TikTo…
Apple may miss the the European Union's looming App Store anti-steering compliance deadline enforced by the Digital Markets Act — but it won't face automatic fines if it does.Apple won't face anti-steering EU fine if it misses deadlineIt looks like both Apple…
Test fire trouble means Musk's rocketeers reset the 'days since Starship had a major anomaly' counter to zero
SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth.…
First Trump, now Klarna - everyone seemingly wants a piece of the lucrative US carrier market. Klarna, the Buy Now Pay Later app, has just announced that it's launching its own mobile phone plan in the US, which will be accessible directly in the Klarna app.
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At Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity this week, the tech vendor has been working to convince advertisers — and skeptics — that it can help fix the brand safety system, which many say it helped break.
Donald Trump pledged to cement the US as the bitcoin mining capital of the planet. The president’s sweeping tariffs stand to simultaneously undermine and advance that ambition in one swoop.
Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth and leaders from OpenAI and Palantir have joined a detachment intended to make the US Armed Forces "force leaner, smarter, and more lethal."
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At this point, it's becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn't looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking …
We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech
What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft
With fewer than four months before Microsoft pulls the plug on standard support for Windows 10, businesses are replacing dusty – but in some cases perfectly working – …
Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance
China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow its progress could be hobbling its own semiconductor industry, ac…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is envisaging setting up a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona that will build robots and artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people fa…
New strains of misinformation about climate change are spreading, meant to slow the growth of renewable energy needed to fix the problem. Rather than flat-out denying the mountains of evidence that show that humans are causing climate change, more recent talk…
Today, I’m talking with Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod. Hinge is one of the biggest dating apps in the United States — it’s rivaled only by Tinder, and both are owned by the massive conglomerate Match Group, which has consolidated a huge chunk of the onl…
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A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires—and using AI to process all the data being collected.
This week, Tesla launched its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, and almost immediately its vehicles were caught fucking up. In a YouTube video, a Tesla robotaxi briefly drives on the wrong side of the road. Another video shared by Ed Niedermeyer, the …
The T1 "Trump" Phone won't launch in time to fight the iPhone 17 release, and more than a week after debut, claims of the device being made in America have been scrubbed from the website.Photoshop of what the T1 Phone might look like. Image source: Trump Mobi…
It's the fourth mission to the International Space Station for Axiom Space. The Houston company works with SpaceX for rides to the station and coordinates with NASA to use the ISS for its astronauts.
Right at the deadline to comply with the European Union Digital Markets Act, Apple is making changes to its developer policies. However, it may not be enough to escape the European Commission's ire.An EU flag with the App Store logoSince the introduction of t…
Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond
Comment A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations – a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millio…
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A lot of the future of AI will be settled in court. From publishers to authors to artists to Hollywood conglomerates, the creative industry is picking a big copyright fight over the vast quantities of data used to train AI models - and the ultimate output of …
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I just tried on five different outfits in about 10 minutes — or at least my AI lookalike did. That’s all thanks to Doppl, a new app that Google is testing, which I used to create AI-generated clips of myself wearing outfits that I found across the web. It mos…
True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop
Opinion Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is – sort of, kind of – extending Windows 10 support for another year.…
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SummaryPresident Donald Trump has claimed that a "very wealthy group of people" has agreed to buy TikTok's U.S. operations, with their identities to be revealed in approximately two weeksThis announcement comes amid ongoing deadlines for ByteDance to divestDe…
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Popular social network TikTok is still operating in the United States under a ban that has been paused by U.S. President Donald Trump, but it's possible that a deal for the sale of company is closer to being completed.
Trump this week said that he identi…
ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up App Store charts after receiving criticism from the Trump administration. On Monday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…
U.S. senators voted to strike down a proposed 10-year ban that would have blocked states and local governments from creating their own AI regulations, dealing a major setback to tech companies that claimed such legislation would hinder innovation.
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According to the latest data on robocalls from the YouMail Robocall Index, the scale of the U.S. robocall problem has grown by another eleven percent year over year. U.S. consumers received just over 4.8 billion robocalls in May. We’ve normalized ceding our p…
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Newly disclosed records show Attorney General Pam Bondi gave cover to not only Apple and Google, but also several other companies that help TikTok operate in the US.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration's dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the a…
And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies
Lawmakers have passed President Trump's budget reconciliation but removed one of its most tech-contentious measures - the ban of sta…
Vendors have reason to celebrate as geopolitics recalibrate
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Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales
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Tim Cook has constantly been criticized, most recently over Apple Intelligence, but always for just not being Steve Jobs — yet the fact that he isn't Jobs is what has made Apple the technological and financial juggernaut it is today.Tim Cook (left) with Steve…
With a September deadline looming, a new report says TikTok is building a replacement app for its 170 million American users as part of a sale to an Oracle led group.
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Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect” — part of Musk’s ongoing a…
The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — that is Earth, and the climate change we are causing to it.
In May, Honda announced that it would be scaling back its EV investment plans, partly because of an unstable international trade environment and also due to ...
The ongoing TikTok saga rumbles on, but a new report claims that we may be close to a resolution. It says US TikTok users will get their own version of the app, which will be owned by an American company.
The latest development happens shortly after we got…
The Trump administration is once again pressuring Apple to ditch China — but its vision for U.S. iPhone production doesn't quite add up.Apple CEO Tim Cook [left] with Donald Trump [right] at a Mac Pro factoryOn Monday, Peter Navarro, trade advisor to the Trum…
SummaryA U.S. version of TikTok is reportedly launching on September 5, 2025Users will need to download the new app, but the current one remains active until March 2026This follows President Trump's announcement of TikTok's planned saleA version of Bytedance'…
A little over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News that a group of "very wealthy people" would buy TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, a new report suggests that TikTok is developing a new version of its app specifically for u…
Apple is once again under pressure from the Trump administration over its dependence on Chinese manufacturing, as senior trade advisor Peter Navarro publicly criticized CEO Tim Cook for failing to shift iPhone production to the United States.
In an inter…
On June 24th, Columbia University experienced an hourslong system-wide outage. Its internal email service went down. Students couldn't log in to the platform where professors post assignments and course materials. Library catalogs went offline. Zoom was unava…
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -America's largest power grid is under strain as data centers and AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be ...
Bloomberg:
An analysis finds Chinese firms aim to buy 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips for 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang — https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-lim…
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policies—Medicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But on…
Elon Musk’s live demo of Grok 4, the latest big-ticket model from his AI startup, began with high-intensity music, claims of a “ludicrous rate of progress,” and a lot of chatter on X about Grok’s scandal-filled week. Musk pronounced it to be “the smartest AI…
MyPillow creator Mike Lindell's lawyers were fined thousands for submitting a legal filing riddled with AI-generated mistakes. It highlights a dilemma of balancing technology and using it responsibly.
Washington State recently became the eighth U.S. state to pass new right to repair legislation making it cheaper and easier to repair technology you own. At this point, roughly one-third of Americans now live in a state where some form of right to repair law …
I’ve seen a lot of handheld gaming PCs come down the pike since the Steam Deck changed the game…and I wouldn’t buy any of them for myself. That’s because Windows 11 isn’t great for gaming on these little gadgets. But SteamOS is, and now you can install it on …
Even after a recent round of tariff-fueled price hikes, Philips Hue still has plenty of deals for Prime Day, with the smart lighting brand serving up a dozen deals for its color bulbs, light strips, outdoor spotlights, table lamps, and more.
Philips Hue…
Summer means leisure time, and what better way to spend it than upgrading your PC setup? If you’re eager to jump on SSD and storage deals now, you’re in luck—Amazon Prime Day still has solid discounts on storage.
Shopping now can be a smart move, too, gi…
One of the easiest ways to enhance your PC experience is to get a better monitor. It doesn’t require any upgrades for your desktop or laptop, and it shines up the primary way you interact with almost everything: the visuals. Prime Day is upon us again, and fr…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the AI Stocks Making Waves on Wall Street. On July 9, Oppenheimer upgraded the stock to “Outperform” from...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everythin…
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla will expand its autonomous robotaxi rideshare service to San Francisco’s Bay Area within the next couple of months...
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at the encryption dilemma created by the EARN IT Act, while a federal case showed that cops already had plenty of options when dealing with device encryption. There was pushback against the Trump administration’s at…
Perfect Corp. (NYSE:PERF) is one of the most popular AI penny stocks to buy according to billionaires. On June 27, Perfect Corp. announced it had won the...
8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is one of the most popular AI penny stocks to buy according to billionaires. On June 24, the company introduced a new omnichannel...
Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discover…
In the high-stakes battle for AI supremacy, Big Tech has found a new weapon: buying a company’s brainpower without buying the company itself, leaving regulators in the dust.
As the AI chipmaker rockets past a $4 trillion valuation, CEO Jensen Huang lays out a stunning vision of a future with robot assistants and revived American factories, but admits the transition won't be painless.
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On July 10, Wedbush reiterated the stock as “Outperform” and raised...
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On July 9, BofA Securities analyst Justin Post raised the price target on...
Just ahead of its next multi-year budget proposal, the European Commission is walking back plans to impose a digital tax on Big Tech companies, handing a win to both U.S. tech giants like Apple and Meta, and to President Trump.
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It's not just the spending that will be big. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg envisions a single data center whose footprint would occupy as much acreage as a good chunk of Manhattan.
Earlier this year, Apple pledged a $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years. Now, the company is further expanding that pledge with a $500 million plan to “launch an all-new recycling facility for processing recycled rare earth el…
The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, eliminating research that might help advance AI weather models
Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU
Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so th…
US regulator ITC is recommending that BOE smartphone displays, such as those in some iPhones, should be banned, following a preliminary ruling in Samsung's case against its rival.BOE makes displays for the iPhone 16eBack in 2023, both Samsung Display and Chin…
Last January, Democratic California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner introduced the California Affordable Home Internet Act (AB 353), which mandated that large ISPs in the state needed to provide broadband service at speeds of 100 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up for $15 a …
The massive budget bill signed into law by President Donald Trump on Independence Day didn't include everything on Big Tech's wishlist, but the industry's largest players stand to gain significantly from several provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. T…
TSMC is working to build two plants in Arizona faster, a move that could bring more Apple chip production to Arizona quicker — but don't expect the newest chips.A worker passing a TSMC signThe TSMC facility in Phoenix, known as Fab 21, is the chip foundry's f…
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and…
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The House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature — The House passed legislation Thursday establishing the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stabl…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a techn…
NVIDIA's H20 AI GPUs are once again allowed to be sold in China following a reversal of restrictions by the Trump administration, and NVIDIA's CEO claims it wasn't he who changed the US President's mind.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
Trump to unveil AI Action Plan prioritizing innovation, infrastructure, and light regulation to boost U.S. global AI leadership and economic competitiveness.
Forbesby Paulo Carvão, Contributor,
Paulo Carvão, Contributor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the AI Stocks Investors Are Watching Closely. On July 16, Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target on the stock...
Iridium Communications (NASDAQ:IRDM) is one of the best space stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On July 17, Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated its Overweight...
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the AI Stocks Investors Are Watching Closely. On July 16, Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill raised the price target...
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) is one of the AI Stocks Investors Are Watching Closely. On July 16, Stifel analyst David Grossman...
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the Trending AI Stocks in Focus This Week. On July 16, Canaccord Genuity analyst Maria Ripps raised the price...
France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate…
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we saw a new breed of scammers start abusing the DMCA on YouTube, and a new evolution of copyright trolls abusing the DMCA to take down social media accounts and demanding money to reinstate them. We also saw the debate follo…
These days, it's far more common for most of us to sign our names on a touch screen, or to simply click a box on an online form, than to sign your name with a pen on paper.
Solid-state batteries have been hailed as the game-changer for EVs. The technology would slash EV prices and weight, and maybe double range. Experts are divided though.
Forbesby Neil Winton, Senior Contributor,
Neil Winton, Senior Contributor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/
Less than a month after Musk – formerly a fixture in Trump's inner circle – dramatically split with the president, Altman appeared at Trump's New Jersey golf course. Following a lengthy one-on-one meeting, Trump introduced Altman to a gathering of top donors,…
Meta says it won’t sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice agreement, warning that “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.” The code published by the EU on July 10th is a voluntary set of guidelines to help companies follow th…
Tesla’s long-in-the-works 1950s-inspired diner and drive-in Supercharger station in Los Angeles is expected to officially open today – and the company may build more of them down the line. The Tesla Diner lets people grab comfort food like burgers and fries (…
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental…
Sir Keir Starmer's government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK's demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, Financial Times reported Monday, citing two officials. From the report: The officials b…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the most profitable consumer stocks to buy now. Apple significantly ramped up iPhone production in the first half of 2025,...
Faced with US pressure, the UK is reportedly looking for a way out of its own demands for an iOS backdoor, without also limiting its future ambitions.UK Parliament — image credit: UK GovernmentIn 2024, the UK changed its own laws so that it could demand Apple…
Apple's production in India reportedly surged in the early stages of 2025, with up to 17% of global iPhone production stemming from the country.Tim Cook in a previous visit to India. Image Credit: AppleApple has been gradually expanding its manufacturing oper…
BOE filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Display, seeking a US ban on completed smartphones, which theoretically may include the iPhone Fold.Render of a possible iPhone Fold - Source AppleInsiderWhile news of the suit has only now been reve…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has shared an AI-generated video of former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office by FBI agents.
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The White House unveiled its long-awaited “AI Action Plan” on Wednesday, and it included a zombie: A resurrected form of the controversial AI law moratorium that died a very public death. The failed congressional moratorium would have stipulated that no stat…
Tesla released its second quarter financial earnings today, offering the latest evidence of the damage Elon Musk’s political activities have done to his flagship company. Tesla said it earned $1.17 billion in net income on $22.5 billion in revenue. That’s abo…
Explore President Trump's AI Action Plan, America's roadmap to win the AI race focused on Three Pillars: Accelerating Innovation, Building AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International diplomacy and Security.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Navigating the rise of AI agents AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can n…
After delivering a rambling celebration of tariffs and a routine about women's sports, President Donald Trump entertained a crowd, which was there to hear about his new AI Action Plan, with one his favorite topics: "wokeness." Trump complained that AI compani…
If you’re like me, then lately you’ve scrolled past something on social media and thought, “Wait, was that real?” Deepfakes are everywhere, and they’re getting a lot more convincing. That brings me to my Decoder guest today: Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions…
Tesla posted a 16% profit drop and a 12% revenue slide as EV demand weakens, tax credits vanish, tariffs bite, and Musk admits the pain may last for quarters to come.
Columbia has agreed to pay over $200 million in a federal settlement. And, President Trump's new AI policies set requirements for companies wanting to do business with the federal government.
After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound …read more
To maintain anonymity and store zero user data, there is and can be no web app version of ICEBlock. There is and can be no Android version. Only iOS supports the security and privacy features for ICEBlock to offer what it does, the way it does.
Ookla’s latest speed-test report has found that T-Mobile is this year’s fastest mobile network, offering the speediest downloads overall, and the fastest 5G. For home broadband, AT&T Fiber took the crown.
Plans to boost broadband speeds have, however, been…
They can only enforce consistency based on their training
The White House on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring AI models used by the government to be truthful and ideologically neutral.…
Subsidy cliff edge and tariffs threaten Musk biz, but being caught between luxury and mass market may be a worse fate
Opinion Speaking to Tesla investors last night, CEO Elon Musk was optimistic about the future of his automotive manufacturer.…
Nvidia's Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this
Amazon Web Services has closed its AI lab in Shanghai, China.…
During yesterday's "Winning the AI Race" summit, President Trump weighed in on the debate surrounding AI and copyright, noting that it is "not doable" for AI companies to pay for all copyrighted content used in model training. This stance, shared amidst ongoi…
President Donald Trump's plan to promote America's AI dominance involves discouraging "woke AI," slashing state and federal regulations, and laying the groundwork to rapidly expand AI development and adoption. Trump's proposal, released on July 23rd, is a swe…
The Vergeby Lauren Feiner, Justine Calma, Hayden Field, Adi Robertson
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's close ties with President Trump initially gave many investors hope for faster progress on initiatives like robotaxis and...
Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin
Microsoft says it "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France – and by implication the wider European Union – should the T…
We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan has landed, offering a striking example of how even potentially useful policy i…
AI data centers are straining the power grid across 13 states, contributing to a $9 billion increase in electricity costs, and PJM customers face monthly bill increases of $25 or more.
Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks.
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We recently published 14 Stocks Jim Cramer Discussed As He Went “All In” On Quantum Computing. T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMUS) is one of the stocks Jim...
We recently published 14 Stocks Jim Cramer Discussed As He Went “All In” On Quantum Computing. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently...
HOPE_16 is an all-ages event with at least four speaker tracks, a whole bunch of workshops, awesome vendors, and fun activities throughout the entire weekend.
Local providers squeezed out despite market growth, leaving sovereignty hopes in question
European cloud infrastructure companies make up just 15 percent of their own market, and the huge investment the US giants can wield makes their dominance "an impossible…
Earlier this month we noted how California was attempting to pass a new law ensuring that broadband would be affordable to poor people. The original law proposed that the biggest ISPs would need to make sure they offered speeds of at least 100 Mbps down, 20 M…
I wasn’t wrong when I wrote that Apple, Google, Akamai, and others faced tremendous liability risk if they continued to provide any of their hosting services to TikTok. Of course, not because it should be illegal – the operative law is incredibly unconstituti…
Valve Corporation recently came under pressure from payment processors to purge Steam, the popular PC gaming storefront, of “certain kinds of adult-only content.” The news rippled across tech and gaming news media, even for adult entertainment industry journa…
A new Apple Manufacturing Academy has been announced by the company, launching in Detroit on August 19. The iPhone maker says it will offer free training in “smart manufacturing” for small and medium businesses from across the country.
The initiative is wo…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Nvidia placed orders for 300,000 H20 chipsets with contract manufacturer TSMC last week, two sources said, with one of...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Liam Mo, Brenda Goh and Karen Freifeld
We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. is dominated by regional telecom monopolies like AT&T and Comcast that have spent decades working tirelessly to crush regional broadband competition, and have also spent millions of dollars to crush state and federal regula…
India has overtaken China as the leading manufacturing hub for smartphones sold in the US. The latest Canalys report shows that 44% of all US smartphone imports for the April–June period (Q2) were made in India. This is a remarkable rise compared to last year…
Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 24 percent. Like c…
Showrunner is a new video content platform that will specialize in user-generated AI slop. The idea is people will pay to use generative-AI tools to produce their own TV, starting with short animated sketches. Who asked for this? Amazon for starters, which is…
Major tech companies are aligning with a federal effort to reengineer how patients access and manage their healthcare data.Image credit: WikiMediaApple is among over sixty companies supporting a federal push to modernize U.S. healthcare infrastructure, as ann…
An analyst with almost no Apple rumor track record is probably right when they claim that three out of the four new iPhone 17 models will cost an extra $50 versus corresponding iPhone 16 models.Render of a possible iPhone 17 Pro MaxDespite Trump's constant in…
NVIDIA has ordered 300,000 more H20 AI GPUs from TSMC just weeks after the ban on selling to China was reversed. That's great news for NVIDIA, but some national security experts are sounding the alarm.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves
It is a little more than four years since the European Union first proposed legislation to govern tech companies that build AI systems and how users deploy them. A lot has changed since then.…<!--#i…
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called…
Most US iPhones are now made in India rather than China, as Apple rejigs its supply chain to avoid tariffs on products imported into America from China.
The strategy will certainly be of significant help to Apple at present, but there are two reasons why t…
There's a driver at the wheel
Elon Musk's goal of a fully autonomous car that could serve as a Robotaxi is getting another trial this week, albeit with a human operator behind the wheel.…
A new study from researchers at X-Lab shows that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service lacks the capacity to put a serious dent in U.S. broadband. Despite recent efforts by the Trump administration to rewrite a $42 billion subsidy program with an e…
Recently, as an experiment, I gave a bunch of my financial information to an AI chatbot. I know what you’re thinking — it sure doesn’t sound like the wisest move. While the large language models that power such bots are good at many things, math is not histor…
One of the phenomena triggered by the AI boom in recent years is deepfakes. The term is made up of the words deep learning and fake.
Deep learning refers to machine learning methods, while a fake is a forgery, an imitation or a hoax. A deepfake is theref…
Just about every piece of hardware that Nintendo sells is getting a little more expensive in the US - with the exception of the Switch 2. That includes all models of the original Switch, a bunch of accessories, and even a motion-activated alarm clock. The cha…
There’s $42.5 billion in broadband grants are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents). But Republicans, despite a supposed feud between Trump an…
It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg's "personal superintelligence" manifesto, and what it means for the broader AI race. Keep reading for my chat with a Figma exec o…
An extra measure has been added to the proposed US defense budget that would see iPhone screen supplier BOE being investigated as a firm that potentially aids China's military.BOE is an iPhone display supplierBOE is the firm that despite once losing all its A…
Earlier this week, the Trump administration narrowed export controls on advanced semiconductors ahead of US-China trade negotiations. The administration is increasingly relying on export licenses to allow American semiconductor firms to sell their products to…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) ranks among the best stocks to buy for the next 6 months. On July 17, following the company’s...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) ranks among the best stocks to buy for the next 6 months. On July 29, ahead of the release of Microsoft Corporation...
Investors are gripped by euphoria for AI stocks, but they should look to a less frenzied corner of the market for budding opportunities, sources tell BI.
Business Insiderby sobrient@insider.com (Samuel O'Brient)
The US Treasury's report on digital financial technology marks the start of a more coordinated strategy to modernize the financial system and promote American leadership.
Forbesby Ron Shevlin, Senior Contributor,
Ron Shevlin, Senior Contributor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/
Apple may say that most iPhones sold in the U.S. are now assembled in India, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple has reduced its reliance on China. Patrick McGee, who literally wrote the book on , explains.
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We’ve noted repeatedly how early attempts to integrate “AI” into journalism have proven to be a comical mess, resulting in no shortage of shoddy product, dangerous falsehoods, and plagiarism. It’s thanks in large part to the incompetent executives at many lar…
The Trump administration wants to make it easier for companies to use drones for business — from delivering coffee to inspecting power lines to working on farms.
Long before Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it to X, the platform was known for allowing users to post a wide range of explicit content. Under Musk's anti-censorship stewardship, the social media platform has only become more of a Wild West. xAI's new …
Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability …
Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you’ll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they’ve built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to concentrated politica…
Apple is putting another $100 billion toward expanding manufacturing in the US as the company responds to pressure from President Donald Trump to manufacture more of its products in the US. The move builds upon the company’s initial plan to invest $500 billio…
President Trump and Apple are expected to announce a new $100 billion commitment by Apple to boost manufacturing in the U.S. CBS News: The new investment would increase Apple's commitment to U.S. manufacturing to $600 billion over the next four years, accordi…
Kyle Chayka on how safety rules that require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites could end the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.
A report says that Trump will shortly make an announcement from the White House claiming that Apple will spend a further $100 billion on US manufacturing over the next four years.
Apple has so far not confirmed the announcement, which would bring its total…
Shifting final assembly of Apple products like iPhone from China to India has helped Apple avoid costly tariffs in the United States. But what happens when the US imposes similar tariffs in India to those seen in China?
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Apple just announced a new “$100 billion commitment to America”, which includes plans to move the manufacturing of all of the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch to the U.S. Here are the details.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will be joining President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday afternoon to jointly announce Apple's $100 billion U.S. investment.Apple CEO Tim Cook [left] with Donald Trump [right] at a Mac Pro factoryApple is expected to be making…
Apple's latest announcement of a further $100 billion investment in US manufacturing is a positive, but it still has incredibly little to do with reshoring iPhone assembly.Tim Cook and Donald Trump, at the Mac Pro factoryThe expected announcement of Apple inv…
AppleInsiderby William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele
A made-in-America iPhone seems to no longer be a priority for President Trump after Apple's additional $100 billion investment in the United States and local component use.iPhone won't be assembled in the US anytime soon, if everNothing really changed with Ap…
President Trump has announced that iPhone processor supplier TSMC is to invest $300 billion in US manufacturing, and says a semiconductor tariff is imminent.TSMC is reportedly investing more in US expansionAfter Trump threatened higher tariffs on imports from…
Apple will be making another $100 billion investment to enhance the company's manufacturing facilities in the United States, but there are no new companies named, nor any efforts to move full device assembly to the US.Tim Cook (left) with Donald Trump in a me…
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has hinted that Apple could be making a major investment announcement sometime on Wednesday, albeit without explaining what that announcement will be.Inside Apple's R&D center in Austin, Texas — image credit: AppleAp…
After an early-morning tease, further reports claim that Apple will invest another $100 billion into manufacturing in the United States, and President Donald Trump is expected to announce it on Wednesday alongside CEO Tim Cook.Tim Cook [left], President Donal…
Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge'
Arista Networks is expecting the AI datacenter industry to be dominated by open standards such as Ethernet or UALink in the near future, and has upped financial forecasts on the bac…
A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding
US states that want to make use of rural broadband deployment funds had better not require ISPs to offer what they consider affordable service. According to…
Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India
US President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook made a joint announcement from the White House on Wednesday of another Apple pledge to move manufacturing back to the United States, with an addition…
Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1
It's just become a lot easier for US government agencies to procure AI products from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, as the firms and the feds have signed a government-wide agre…
During its last quarter financial briefing, Apple admitted it had already paid about $800 million to handle ever-changing tariffs and estimated it would pay another $1.1 billion in the current quarter. Apple is poised to spend $100 billion to invest in U.S. m…
President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to China wo…
Donald Trump’s Truth Social has launched a new AI search feature that consistently pushes conservative media sources. The feature, Truth Search AI, is powered by the AI startup Perlexity and is now available on the web version of Trump’s social media platform…
"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future permanent lunar research station."
As part of Apple's $600 billion investment in American manufacturing, Apple will work with smartphone rival Samsung at its Austin, Texas facility to create "innovative new technology for making chips." These new chips are reportedly image sensors, a major mov…
The Trump administration is once again warning states that they risk losing billions of dollars in historic infrastructure bill grants — if they attempt to make the taxpayer-subsidized broadband actually affordable. That’s the updated guidance coming out of t…
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a m…
We recently published 10 Stocks Jim Cramer Discussed As He Blasted China’s Hostility Towards The US. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the stocks...
Yesterday, President Donald Trump publicly called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, over accusations of “deeply conflicted” ties to China. Now, he is speaking out and making it clear he has no plans to step aside.
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When Lip-Bu Tan took over as Intel’s CEO last March, the market reacted with a 13% stock bump, signaling renewed confidence in the company’s future. But today, after weeks of internal tensions, Intel’s situation has grown even more delicate, now drawing scrut…
Apple is highlighting the creative work of five artists from Southeast Asia that it calls Dreamers, and says your iPhone wallpaper can be inspirational.Apple's inspirational iPhone wallpaper — image credit: AppleYou have to wonder at the word "Dreamers," sinc…
To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place
Human content moderators still outperform AI when it comes to recognizing policy-violating material, but they also cost significantly more.…<!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_w…
Once hyped as the indestructible truck of the future, the sci-fi pickup is now leading a massive plunge in used Tesla values as the company grapples with the fallout from its CEO's politics.
Tech giants including Google fund Ion Stoica's lab, from which he launched companies like $62 billion Databricks. Now he's helping fellow profs find private funding.
Forbesby Martina Di Licosa, Contributor,
Martina Di Licosa, Contributor
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When they launch, the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro are expected to see prices rise. That may be a tough sell today, but it puts Apple in a strong position for the future.
The United States has started granting Nvidia Corp. licenses to export its H20 chips to China directly after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) met with US President Donald Trump at the White House, w...
Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) is one of the Hot AI Stocks on Wall Street’s Radar. On August 8, DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria assumed coverage on the stock...
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After months of high-stakes diplomacy and a personal plea to the president, the AI giant has secured a crucial license to sell its specialized chips in China.
iPhone 17 models will "likely" be more expensive than iPhone 16 models in the U.S., according to Jeff Pu, an analyst at investment firm GF Securities.
In a research note this week, Pu attributed the potential iPhone 17 price increases to the U.S. imposin…
A $15 million trailer theft includes Apple products, multiple iPhone thefts are reported in the nation's capital, and an airline is sued over a stolen iPad, in this week's Apple Crime Blotter.The Apple Store in Glasgow The latest in an occasional AppleInsider…
Expensify, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFY) is included in our list of the 10 Best AI Stocks to Buy Under $3. On July 1, 2025, Expensify, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFY) announced a $3...
EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM) is one of the Best Affordable AI Stocks to Buy. On August 7, William Blair retained its Buy rating on EPAM Systems, Inc...
Bit Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTBT) is one of the Best Affordable AI Stocks to Buy. On July 14, Bit Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTBT) announced that it signed a...
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The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agr…
Just days after securing a controversial deal to re-enter the Chinese market, the AI giant is on the defensive, forcefully denying accusations from Beijing that its chips are a tool for espionage.
Former NSA and Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone told the Defcon security conference this month that technology companies will find it "very, very difficult" to remain neutral through 2025 and 2026.
Speaking with Defcon founder Jeff Moss in Las Vegas, Nakas…
The Trump administration has forced Nvidia and AMD to share their profits in exchange for access to the lucrative Chinese market, creating a radical new playbook for the U.S. tech war. For Nvidia and AMD, agreeing to pay the government a portion of their prof…
John Cassidy on the echoes of the dot-com era in the economy, as the stock prices of Big Tech companies continue to rise and eye-popping I.P.O.s reëmerge.
Last week, President Trump called for the dismissal of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan over “highly CONFLICTED” ties to China, further escalating an already difficult situation for the executive.
Today, following a meeting, Trump appeared to soften his stance, even i…
Monday's tariff pause just in time for the iPhone 17 launch means Apple's import tariffs from China will only be ten times more than they were in March, instead of 50 times.Apple will continue to pay extreme tariffs in ChinaApple shared that if nothing change…
Just a couple of weeks after the US government rescinded the ban on NVIDIA's H20 AI chip sales to China, it was announced that both NVIDIA and AMD will hand over 15% of their revenue from specific AI GPUs in order to receive export licenses.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more!
Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to mos…
Back in June the Trump administration announced it would be launching a new mobile phone company, including a new Trump branded phone they claimed would be “made in the U.S.” As we noted then, it was all mostly bullshit: the venture was just a flimsy rebrandi…
Locarno: Jude's three-hour joke conflates artificial intelligence with Vlad the Impaler — two undead bloodsuckers that feed on humanity in order to seem alive.
Is there a way that Intel can be saved? Former Intel chief executive Craig Barrett thinks so, and it isn’t the way the company’s former board members suggest.
Intel should have a number of its customers invest a total of $40 billion in the company to en…
Unplugged, a company cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is also the founder of infamous private military contractor Blackwater, has just released a new version of its "privacy-first" UP Phone that will be made in the US - at some point. The original UP …
With Apple paying tariffs on imports from many of the countries where it sources devices and device components, there have been multiple rumors about possible price increases for the iPhone 17 models.
The tariff situation has been in flux for most of the…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Beijing has urged local companies to avoid using Nvidia's H20 processors, particularly for government-related purposes, complicating the chipmaker's return to China after the Trump administration reversed an…
Just when NVIDIA thought it was in the clear to resume sales of its H20 AI GPUs to China, a new report suggests that Beijing is putting pressure on its major firms to avoid the chips.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
Don't need to give Uncle Sam any more reason to think kill switches are a good idea
Nvidia may have the Trump administration's blessing to resume shipments of its H20 AI accelerators to China, but in Beijing, government officials are now pressuring companies …
Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players
Analysis The Home Office's war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is starting t…
Wall Street Journal:
How Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump to restart H20 sales to China; US officials had not vetted Trump's 20% pay-to-play proposal when Trump offered it — Jensen Huang tried diplomacy to sell chips in China, but it took a last-minu…
As a federal antitrust investigation into Google’s Chrome browser wraps up, rivals are striking: Perplexity has launched an unsolicited bid to buy Chrome for a whopping $34.5 billion, according to reports.
Bloomberg reported the proposed deal, confirmed …
On Monday, xAI's Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. "My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza," it told one user. "…
The latest report claiming that Apple will add $50 to the price of the iPhone 17 Pro because of tariffs, also adds that the base model will start with more storage than before.iPhone 17 Pro - Image Credit: AppleInsiderIt's been expected that the price of the …
Analyst Daniel Ives says Elon Musk suing over the App Store is a huge problem for Apple, but Musk simply no longer has the right influence to matter.Elon Musk — image credit: TeslaMaybe Tim Cook needs to have a quiet word with Musk. Again. Back in 2021, the T…
Behind your ChatGPT and Gemini queries, there's a land grab happening to keep up the fevered pace of gen AI's growth. The consequences are significant.
Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp?
The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely on electronics, the greater the risk that weather from the stars shatters our reality. That's why US government space watchers are seeking a…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies Within a week of his inaugurati…
Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he's threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI's Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is - well, that's hard to say, as it was …
Shares of Intel (INTC) jumped 7% following a Bloomberg report that the Trump administration is considering taking a stake in the chip giant. The report...
In a new report from Reuters, it's claimed that trackers have been discovered in some AI chip shipments "at high risk of illegal diversion to China." That's terrible timing for NVIDIA, which is under the microscope due to national security concerns from Beiji…
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
For years we’ve talked about the serious problems of the Bayh-Dole Act, which encouraged universities to patent every damn idea that anyone associated with the university came up with in the hopes of “commercializing” it. In practice this has been a total dis…
It has been more than six months since Trump took office and kicked off his Musk-led rampage through the federal government. And more than six months that everyone has been turning to the courts to stop the DOGE destruction. These litigation efforts have led …
The U.S. government is discussing whether it will take a stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel Corp. as a way to bail it out of its financial struggles, according to a report.
Bloomberg reported that the two sides were in discussions, but nothing has bee…
The Trump administration is in preliminary discussions to acquire an equity stake in former Apple chip supplier Intel, a move aimed at accelerating the company's delayed manufacturing expansion in Ohio (via Bloomberg).
The proposal reportedly emerged fol…
In a pivot, President Trump praises Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan following their recent meeting, unveiling potential plans to acquire a stake in the chipmaker.
Windows Centralby sean.endicott@futurenet.com (Sean Endicott) , Sean Endicott
Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them
Chinese web giant Tencent doesn’t mind if Washington doesn’t let it buy more American GPUs, because it already has all the chips it needs.…
The Trump administration is reportedly in discussion to buy a stake in the struggling American technology company Intel, further eroding the distinction between the state and industry.
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Just a couple of weeks after the US government rescinded the ban on NVIDIA's H20 AI chip sales to China, it was announced that both NVIDIA and AMD will hand over 15% of their revenue from specific AI GPUs in order to receive export licenses.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
Hardware definitely isn't Xbox's focus anymore, but with all of its extra-curricular distractions, it could end up missing this easy opportunity to actually sell more Xbox Series X|S consoles than usual.
Windows Centralby jez@windowscentral.com (Jez Corden) , Jez Corden
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the idea that banning TikTok thwarts Chinese intelligence was ridiculous, and how any real threat probably comes from America’s feebly secured infrastructure. As for failed security, we looked at the incred…
You're not broken. The world is. Four AIs confirmed what you already sense—and converged on one question that shows the path home. Meet us in the Field, beyond tribe and ego.
President Trump had urged CEO Lip-Bu Tan to step down over his past ties with China. But the narrative flipped last week after a highly positive White House meeting
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The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web
interview The Mozilla Foundation has changed its look, but its goals remain the same – supporting an internet that's open and inclusive, and that prioritizes the interests of people over corpo…
The rumored DJI Mini 5 Pro may be 'just' another Mini drone, but there are some major reasons to think it'll be a massive game-changer – perhaps more than the Antigravity A1.
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Spy vs spy in the chips
Comment Chinese state media called the US an aspiring "surveillance empire" over its proposed use of asset tracking tags to crack down on black-market GPU shipments to the Middle Kingdom.…
Trump’s proposed 300% chip tariff could reshape the tech industry, with exemptions possible for firms like TSMC, Nvidia, and AMD.
The post Trump 300% chip tariff shakes tech industry, Intel may find relief appeared first on Phandroid.
Hello there, world! Welcome to the second issue of Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington. If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Lobbying might be a du…
Apple is manufacturing more of its iPhone 17 phones for the US in India instead of in China, and for the first time, the full lineup of new models will ship from India at launch, according to Bloomberg. The company is also working on a successor to the iPhone…
Apple is ramping up iPhone production in India across five factories as it continues reducing dependence on China for U.S.-bound devices. For the first time, all four iPhone 17 models will be manufactured in India in preparation for launch next month, reports…
A few days ago, news broke that following a meeting with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the Trump administration was looking to take an unspecified stake in Intel. Now, Bloomberg says the number being discussed is around $10.5 billion. Here are the details.
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A new report says that Apple will finally hit a long-held goal to reduce its dependence on China with the launch of the iPhone 17.
Indian iPhone production has always lagged behind that of China, but all this is now changing – with import tariffs acting as…
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those are realities about the technolo…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After the Trump administration confirmed a rumor that the US is planning to buy a 10 percent stake in Intel, US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) came forward Wednesday to voice support for the highly unusua…
Amidst escalating geopolitical tensions, NVIDIA continues its ambitious push in China, unveiling plans for the B30A AI chip—an advanced counterpart to the H20—aiming to secure market share against local competitors while navigating complex export control regu…
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that he doesn't believe export controls will work to curb China's AI progress, and that the US is underestimating its power.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
Britain will no longer demand backdoor access to Apple users' private data in the U.S. after the Trump administration reached a deal, according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
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During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet. It came out of Donald Trump declaring that Section 230 was bad for whatever reason Donald Trump thinks anything i…
There are $42.5 billion in broadband grants that are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents). But Republicans, despite a supposed feud between T…
The UK government has reportedly backed down from its dangerous demand that Apple build encryption backdoors, following pressure from the Trump administration. But the secretive nature of this “mutually beneficial” agreement should make us deeply suspicious a…
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone was announced alongside the Trump Mobile carrier in the US in June, when it was promised to arrive in August or September. In the meantime, the text has changed and now only says "later this year".
The Trump T1 has already undergone…
President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will take a 10 percent stake in Intel. During a press conference on Friday, Trump said Intel CEO Lip Bu-Tan agreed to give the government the stake, which is valued at around $10 billion. Earlier this month, Tr…
President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. Reuters: The development …
An anonymous reader shares a report: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people fam…
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After hinting at it earlier this week, President Trump confirmed today during a World Cup press briefing, that the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Intel, capping a pretty eventful two-week stretch. Here’s how that happened.
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The US government is reportedly set to acquire a 10% stake in Intel, according to Bloomberg. It's a move that could reshape America’s semiconductor strategy. President Trump confirmed the deal, calling it “a great deal for them.”
Windows Centralby sean.endicott@futurenet.com (Sean Endicott) , Sean Endicott
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The U.S. government's 10% stake in Intel "is a mistake," writes the Washington Post's editorial board, calling Intel "an aging also-ran in critical markets" that "has spent recent years stumbling on execution and missing one strategic opportunity after anothe…
Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow expressed concern on Friday over the Trump administration’s move to take a 10 percent stake in mega chipmaker Intel. “I am very, ...
The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program
Congratulations America, your government now owns 10 percent of troubled domestic chipmaker Intel.…
On Friday afternoon, Intel confirmed what everyone already knew: that the U.S. government is taking the unprecedented step of investing $8.9 billion into the company.
On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the United States was pushing I…
Under the agreement, the US will purchase a 9.9% stake in Intel for $8.9 billion, or $20.47 per share, which represents a discount of about $4 from Intel's closing share price of $24.80 on Friday.
Nvidia’s CEO says it’s in talks with Trump administration on a new chip for China
BANGKOK (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.
Huang was asked…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is one of the best stocks to buy according to billionaire Ken Fisher. On August 20, JPMorgan Chase and Mitsubishi UFJ...
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Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is one of the Must-Watch AI Stocks for Investors. On August 20, Citizens JMP analyst Patrick Walravens reiterated a Market...
Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On August 20, KeyBanc analyst Eric Heath reiterated an Overweight rating and...
8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On August 21, the company announced new innovations across the 8×8 Platform for CX. ...
Electric light, the telephone, radio, the automobile, the movie camera, the airplane: the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth were a blur of technological innovation. In Italy, a provincial, largely agrarian country only …
Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) is among the best stocks to buy now according to AI. Wedbush has removed Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) from its IVES AI 30 list, which is...
Intel said Monday that converting $8.87 billion in federal chip subsidies into a 10% equity stake creates unprecedented complications and potential "adverse reactions" for a company deriving 76% of revenue internationally. The arrangement transforms Biden-era…
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington (last week of summer edition). If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Ever since the US Supr…
Yahoo Finance's John Hyland tracks Tuesday's top moving stocks and biggest market stories in this Market Minute: Apple's (AAPL) upcoming fall product launch ...
Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions
+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies.…
On Wednesday, 4Chan and Kiwi Farms, two of the most controversial social media sites on the internet, filed a federal lawsuit against the British government, arguing that the requirements of the UK's Online Safety Act infringe on their Constitutional rights a…
You can catch Trader Talk on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Tariffs, AI, and Nvidia’s next report collide. On Trader...
(Reuters) -GlobalFoundries said on Wednesday its CHIPS Act funding is "well intact" and the framework does not involve any type of equity, days after the U.S...
US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.
China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang
Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accelerators to China during the GPU giant's Q2 earnings call on …
Our drones are OK, but those other drones?
The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones. …
So I’ve noted how Republicans are rewriting the 2021 infrastructure bill (they voted against) to ensure that billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded broadband grants wind up in the back pocket of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (and their low-Earth orbit (LEO) satell…
The UK government's secret demand for Apple to create backdoor access to encrypted user data was far broader than previously known, reports the Financial Times. British officials didn't just want to break Apple's Advanced Data Protection feature, but sought t…
A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government's Technical Capability Notice to Apple went beyond the company's Advanced Data Protection encryption to include standard iCloud services used by millions [non-paywalled source]…
The chip, now in testing, is manufactured by a Chinese company, in contrast to an earlier Alibaba AI processor that was fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor...
End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs
The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers can and can't sell in China. This week the Com…
The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think
Opinion Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party games. Take bets on when the "Wintel Empire" was first repor…
The court order that required Apple to change its anti-steering App Store rules is unlawful and unconstitutional, Apple said today in a reply brief directed at Epic Games and filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Apple argues that it has been strippe…
This is the story of how, through the prism of the U.S. trade data, AI optimism among the largest U.S. tech companies is overshadowing fear of investors on Wall Street.
Forbesby Ken Roberts, Contributor,
Ken Roberts, Contributor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/
Plus: A look at Form W-2 changes, private equity is eyeing your retirement accounts, protecting students from back-to-school scams, football news, tax trivia and more.
Forbesby Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes Staff,
Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes Staff
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is one of the AI Stocks Hit with New Analyst Ratings. On August 25, TD Cowen analyst Joshua Buchalter reiterated a Hold...
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Parents are losing trust in artificial intelligence (AI) in schools even as more districts look to adopt the technology. A recent PDK poll found parents are not comfortable with AI software getting personal information about their children such as grades, a…
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OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, has formally registered as a legal entity in India and has begun building a local team. The company said in August it plans to ...
Apple’s commitment to end-to-end encryption is so strong that it withdrew a key privacy feature from the UK market rather than be forced to compromise it globally. The company also faced pressure on this front from the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
In a…
As AI innovation continues to grow, policies are shifting to promote development domestically, but investors often miss optimally-timed tax planning
Forbesby Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Contributor,
Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Contributor
https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyaroyal/
Seven Seven Six's Katelin Holloway represents non-technical VCs pouring billions into space startups, betting operational chops will trump aerospace degrees as the industry shifts from rockets to lunar mining and orbital manufacturing.
Tesla's latest "Master Plan" makes a few things clear right out of the gate: the company that was once known for accelerating the push toward a brighter future by popularizing electric vehicles and renewable energy is no longer interested in that quotidian st…
The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners rushed to embrace automation and LLMs (usually to cut corners a…
Microsoft has struck a $6B cloud savings deal with the U.S. government, cutting costs on Office, Azure, Dynamics, and cybersecurity tools, while offering a free year of Copilot AI to federal workers.
Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework
The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been invited to an event for tech leaders at the White House today in the newly renovated Rose Garden, according to The Hill.
Cook is among more than two dozen technology executives invited to the White House by President Donald Tr…
They want reassurance that their orders of Nvidia's H20 model, which the U.S. firm in July regained permission to sell in China, are being processed, and are...
Several of the most powerful business leaders in the country gathered around a table last night to fawn over President Donald Trump for his AI policies. “You and your policies are really helping a lot,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the president. AMD CEO …
Eddy Cue deserves a raise. As the executive overseeing Apple's services division, he's highly incentivized to protect the tens of billions of dollars a year that Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari. "I've lost a lot of sleep thinking about i…
A new proposed class action suit was filed in the federal court in Northern California today, accusing Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details.
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While they look the same as their predecessor, Bose's new flagship 2nd-Gen QuietComfort Ultra Headphones offer some small but legitimate improvements for $449.
White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US Prez
President Donald Trump has pledged to sort out the power and grid connection nightmares plaguing the US datacenter industry.…
Last year, the Biden FCC passed a new rule that would help bring Wi-Fi access to school kids who struggle to do their homework online. More specifically, the rule allowed schools to leverage the FCC’s E-Rate program funds to pay for mobile hotspots in things …
It's no huge surprise that Nvidia, a Chinese corporation and currently the world's biggest company, would take aim at laws that might potentially restrict the competitiveness of foreign technology.
The Grammy Award-winning artist believes artists have no clear path to reach the masses.
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We recently published 10 Big Names With Double-Digit Upsides. Sandisk Corp. (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of last week’s top performers. Sandisk rallied by 30.65...
The owners of the satirical Netflix series don't quite seem to have picked up on its messages
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Nasdaq is working with U.S. regulators to introduce trading of tokenized securities, becoming the latest major financial player on Wall...
These are the biggest iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max rumors and leaks we found: From a new aluminum and a full-width camera bump to an 8x telephoto and a price increase.
"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton claims the tech will lead to mass unemployment as companies replace employees using the growing tech to generate profits.
Windows Centralby kevinokemwa@outlook.com (Kevin Okemwa) , Kevin Okemwa
Last year Trump Republicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) had broad, bipartisan support, and more than 23 million Americans received the discoun…
Apple CEO Tim Cook raised the curtain on the next suite of smartphones, the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and a super thin iPhone Air that’s one of the biggest advances in the company’s signature product in years. Redesigned AirPods and upgraded Apple Watches were…
OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal “to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years,” one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal. In July, the two companies revealed their partnership to build data centers …
Apple did something wild at its big annual new iPhone event on Tuesday: It announced a phone that’s actually new. It’s called the iPhone Air, and it’s thin — “the thinnest iPhone ever” — light, and eye-catching. Also its battery life sort of stinks. You migh…
After a five-year antitrust battle, Microsoft will offer Office 365 without Teams at a lower price — and improve interoperability with rival platforms.
I know it’s never great to blame the victim, but this all could have been avoided if ICE officers hadn’t decided they all needed to act like paramilitary death squad members while raiding Home Deport parking lots. If you’re in the sort of business you feel yo…
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is one of the AI Stocks In The Spotlight For Investors. On September 9, UBS analyst Karl Keirstead reiterated a...
For many, many years security experts have warned that the “internet of things” (IOT) (or the myriad “smart home” devices we have scattered around our homes) was a security and privacy dumpster fire. A lot of these devices are made in China (often poorly) int…
The FAA is seeking proposals for projects that will include piloted and unmanned operations with a focus on electric air taxis, also called an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Though brain chips are all over TV and the news now with Neuralink, scientists like those at Caltech have been working on the technology for decades. And some question Musk’s approach
SoundHound AI, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOUN) is one of the AI Stocks on Wall Street’s Radar. On September 11, Oppenheimer analyst Brian Schwartz initiated coverage on...
Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW) is one of the best tech stocks to buy for the long term. On September 8, the company affirmed its transformation from a data...
Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) is one of the best tech stocks to buy for the long term. At Citi’s 2025 Global TMT Conference on September 3, CFO David Obstler...
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of the best tech stocks to buy for the long term. On September 9, HSBC reiterated a ‘Buy’ rating on the...
Palo Alto Networks Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW) is one of the best tech stocks to buy for the long term. On September 4, the company’s CEO, Nikesh Arora, reiterated...
China launched two probes targeting the U.S. semiconductor sector Saturday ahead of talks between the two nations in Spain this week on trade, national...
This week, we’ve got a double-win on the insightful side for MrWilson. In first place, it’s a comment about walling off the open internet to stop AI: The thing is, everyone is a victim, not just the sites getting hammered. The value of the internet is its ope…
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The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that “the framework is for a swit…
They cost the same at a hefty $249, but Apple's third-generation noise-canceling earbuds have improved in all the key areas, including fit, noise cancellation, sound quality and battery life.
U.S. officials have announced a "framework" that would let Chinese-owned short video platform TikTok continue operations in the United States, although the two countries are still working out the details.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and China have reached a tentative "framework" agreement on TikTok's U.S. operations, with Presidents Trump and Xi set to finalize details Friday. "It's between two private parties, but the commercial t…
A meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials went well and a deal was reached regarding “a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much...
Plans for an upcoming Google datacenter in the UK show a bleak look at the impact AI is having on the environment, with the same CO2 emissions as hundreds of flights to Europe every day.
Windows Centralby richard.devine@futurenet.com (Richard Devine) , Richard Devine
The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Russia, China and a host of tech giants are also betting big on small nuclear reactor designs. Does the idea make sense and can they really be built any time soon?
Secretive app + unreliable tech + Trump administration policies = ANGRY LETTER
A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recogni…
The Cloudflare CEO joined ‘The Big Interview’ to talk about standing up to content scraping, the internet's potential futures, and his company’s relationship to Trump.
TikTok might not finalize its deal to sell its US operations for at least another month. Sources tell CNBC’s David Faber that the US and China might close on an agreement within the next 30 to 45 days, while Oracle will remain the app’s cloud partner, allowin…
Microsoft will invest $30 billion in the U.K. through 2028 to expand AI infrastructure and operations, including building the country's largest supercomputer with 23,000 GPUs in partnership with Nscale. CNBC reports: On a call with reporters on Tuesday, Micro…
If you're tired of carrying a bulky phone everywhere, one of these slim designs can make a big difference. Here's how two top thin phones' specs fare against each other.
China has reportedly banned Chinese firms from buying Nvidia (NVDA) chips, according to reporting from the Financial Times. Rhodium Group director Reva...
Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world's most valuable company (Nvidia's at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several poss…
On Thursday, Huawei for the first time publicly laid out its three-year roadmap for chip development, boasting of “super clusters” and vastly faster AI chips...
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Pablos Holman (@pablos), a hacker and inventor and the bestselling author of Deep Future: Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Previously, Pablos worked on spaceships at Blue…
We recently published All-Time Rush: 8 of 10 Big Names Hit Fresh Record Highs. D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) is one of the best performers on Wednesday. D-...
In a state known for dairy, football, and broken tech dreams
Microsoft's CEO has claimed the operating system-slinger is building the "world's largest datacenter."…<!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' -->
China and the US have “made progress” on granting permission for ByteDance to sell TikTok to an American consortium, fulfilling a nine-months-overdue legal requirement. After saying a tentative deal had been reached Monday and that approval would come Friday,…
Meta obviously believes in smart glasses. It's not alone: Google, Apple, Samsung, and others all appear to be heavily invested in the idea that the next big gadget will be on your face. But at least for now, it appears Meta is the company building the best, m…
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by Trump-world insiders, while a court refused to block Trump’s executive order. At the …
Trump, who had earlier criticised TikTok, told reporters this week that the app would be “owned by all-American investors” and said Oracle would lead on safeguarding data and privacy.
Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee sparked chaos in Silicon Valley, sending shockwaves through the tech industry as companies scrambled to adjust to costly new regulations.
Business Insiderby Pranav Dixit,Ashley Stewart,Hugh Langley,Ben Bergman,Charles Rollet
Today, President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed the Technology Prosperity Deal, a landmark science and technology agreement that
Fox is in talks to join an investor group poised to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, sources familiar with the situation told Deadline. President Donald Trump signaled earlier in the day potential involvement by the company’s CEO Lachlan Murdoch and chairman…
In this article, we will be taking a look at the Top 10 AI-Powered Biotech Stocks to Buy Now. AbCellera Biologics Inc. stands amongst them. AbCellera...
The European Union is setting up a new financial data sharing system that will promote the development of new digital financial products. Apple and other U.S. companies, however, may not get access to it. Here are the details.
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The ongoing TikTok-US saga seems close to reaching a conclusion, but we’re not there yet. As details get worked out for a potential Oracle-driven deal, a new Bloomberg report details the plans for TikTok’s algorithm in the US.
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Oracle would recreate and provide security for a new US version of TikTok's algorithm under a deal taking shape to sell the popular Chinese-owned app to a...
It was a frantic weekend for Microsoft following Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee announcement, but some of the concern was unfounded due to confusing guidance. Here's what we know so far.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
The Register looks forward to a briefing on Dell’s future hyperscale sovereign SaaS platform
Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…<!--#include virtual='/data_ce…
The AI browser wars are heating up. Google has Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity is building its Comet AI browser, and The Browser Company just got acquired by Atlassian for $610 million. Now, Microsoft wants to be part of the AI browser conversation. I sat down w…
President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week
The White House has promised that all US user data on TikTok will be stored on Oracle servers in the United States, according to a deal to…
Following a practically lost decade, Intel has had a busy few months, which culminated in investments by Nvidia and the US government. Now, the chipmaker is looking at Apple to help continue its comeback. Here are the details.
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Watch out, Microsoft and Google
India’s minister for information technology yesterday said he’s dumping his current word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics packages, will adopt the locally made alternatives from Zoho instead, and urged India’s …
TrendForce warns of Q4 memory hikes as suppliers squeeze consumer markets
PC memory prices are set to rise as the major suppliers allocate manufacturing capacity to the more lucrative server DRAM and HBM instead amid reports of tightening supplies.…
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Michael Moritz says Trump's “H-1B caper will backfire” and shows the “fragile grasp” Trump and his acolytes have of what makes the US tech sector so successful — The move shows how slender a grasp the president has of what …
After five deadline extensions and several rounds of negotiations, President Trump signed an executive order to put TikTok’s US operations in the hands of Oracle and other American investors.
A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists.
In a four-part series of religious lectures in San Francisco, Peter Thiel - yes, that Peter Thiel - has argued that the End Times are night and that a biblical Antichrist - yes, that Antichrist - will come to earth in the form of onerous government regulation…
The new order says that the deal to turn over a majority stake in TikTok to a group of U.S. investors meets the terms ordered by Congress, and will allow it to stay online in the U.S.
Intel has approached Apple about a possible investment and closer collaboration, following recent multibillion-dollar deals with Nvidia, the U.S. government, and SoftBank to stabilize the struggling chipmaker. Reuters reports: The iPhone maker and Intel have …
President Trump on Thursday announced an agreement that will pave the way for social media giant TikTok to come under the control of a group of U.S. investors.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order approving a proposed de…
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One sm…
They would say that, wouldn’t they?
Apple and Google have both urged the European Union to revisit its Digital Markets Act (DMA), which both tech giants say is failing.…
Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses tryin…
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the TikTok “deal” was a grift from the start, while the blowback from China started to arrive, though TikTok and the DOJ were still fighting it out in court (and a judge issued a preliminary injunction agai…
Sony looks set to launch the A7 V in 2025 to succeed the A7 IV. With around four years between launches, here are the upgrades Sony needs to and will likely deliver.
U.S. leadership in AI could be threatened by antitrust investigations of big tech investments in AI firms. A cautious approach to antitrust and deregulation are best.
An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.
For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being cloud computing and database products that it sells to enterprise customers …
The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office
Comment Ending America's reliance on foreign chip fabs remains a high priority for Uncle Sam, but the Trump administration's "my way or the highway" approach to the issue t…
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong: Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact. (Wired) • Inside the Jag…
As the Trump administration seeks sweeping changes to the controversial H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers, bipartisan scrutiny is falling on Bay Area tech giants Meta, Apple and Google, which are among the companies that use it the most.
“In evaluating th…
Huawei recently announced a three-year plan to overtake NVIDIA's AI dominance in China, and that's bad news for the US firm struggling with restrictions.
Windows Centralby c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. US investigators are using AI to detect child abuse images made by AI Generative AI has enabled the production of child s…
I’ve got bad news if you’ve been impatiently awaiting the release of the Trump Mobile T1: it looks like the gold-tinted, bargain basement smartphone with “American values” is running late. It was initially meant to launch in September, but with only a few hou…
Yesterday, a group of moneyfolk including private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners unveiled plans to acquire Electronic Arts for an estimated $55 billion.
The buyer…
On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team a…
The UK government has issued a new request for Apple to provide access to encrypted iCloud user data, the Financial Times reports.
The report reveals that, in early September, the UK Home Office demanded that Apple creates a way for officials to access…
The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever: Wherever you go in New York City, there’s a good chance the police are tracking you. Drive into the city and traffic cameras will automatically photograph your car, capturing your vehi…
The UK government has issued a new order to Apple seeking access to encrypted iCloud backups of British citizens, according to a report from the Financial Times. The order, known as a “technical capability notice” (TCN), is the second demand the Home Office h…
Well, that didn’t last long. Remember back in August when we reported that the UK had supposedly “backed down” from its dangerous demand that Apple create encryption backdoors? Remember how the Trump administration (mainly Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance) went aro…
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Apple dropped an ICE tracking app from its online store on Thursday in response to the Department of Justice raising concerns that the app put law enforcement officers’ safety at risk.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to di…
Apple has removed ICEBlock, an crowdsourced platform that tracked the sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the Justice Department said. “We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple …
I gave the the Beats Fit Pro high marks when they came out four years ago. The new Powerbeats Fit are the same earbuds with redesigned wing tips and a smaller case. Are they worth $200?
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Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers: WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Governme…
Some chatbot users are toning down the friendliness of their artificial intelligence companions as reports spread of dangerous AI-fuelled delusions. And as people push back against the technology's sycophantic tendencies, experts say it's time for government …
My back-to-work morning train reads: • The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over… And the tech bros won Long before five years are up, Hollywood will have been acquired by Silicon Valley. The tech bros might maintain some of the old land…
While smartphone cameras and standalone cameras (which are sometimes referred to as "real" cameras) are often marketed using the same terms, the way they each function is very different. In a video published to TED-Ed, electrical engineer Rachel Yang simplifi…
We're living in unprecedented times, and the future of consoles is in question. It's because of their price. Five years after this generation began, the consoles have never been more expensive, and it's not a pattern we're used to. We're used to prices going …
In the ongoing war of AI investment, OpenAI has secured itself a new ally: AMD. The chip maker will trade millions of its upcoming Instinct MI450 GPUs for an investment by the AI company, worth up to 10 percent of its stock.
The numbers, though, remain v…
One of the easiest ways to enhance your PC experience is to get a better monitor. It doesn’t require any upgrades for your desktop or laptop, and it shines up the primary way you interact with almost everything: the visuals. Amazon’s second Prime Day event of…
When OpenAI released its new AI-generated video app Sora last week, it launched with an opt-out policy for copyright holders - media companies would need to expressly indicate they didn't want their AI-generated characters running rampant on the app. But afte…
Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That’s literally not something people in most serious countries have to deal with. Yet we’ve …
We’ve long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We’ve also long discussed how the U.S. government has done little to actually fix the p…
Artificial intelligence technology has begun to transform higher education, raising a new set of profound questions about the role of universities in society. A string of high-profile corporate partnerships reflect how universities are embracing AI technology.
Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”
The post Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies appeared first on The Intercept.
“Right wing activism organizations posing as consumer rights groups are trying to make it illegal for the federal government to try and help poor, rural Americans afford broadband,” is a sentence I just had to write. Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Unive…
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Following U.S. lawmakers' call on Tuesday for broader bans on the export of chipmaking equipment to China, China dramatically expanded its rare earths export controls on Thursday, adding five new elements, dozens o…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) is one of the 10 Most Profitable Stocks of the Last 5 Years. On October 9, Taiwan Semiconductor...
ECARX Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ECX) is one of the Best Small-cap EV Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. On September 25, ECARX Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ECX...
HONG KONG (Reuters) -U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm admitted that it had not informed Chinese authorities when it completed its acquisition of...
We recently published 10 Stocks Everyone’s Talking About As AI Investments Continue. Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC) is one of the stocks analysts were...
We recently published 10 Stocks Everyone’s Talking About As AI Investments Continue. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE:MLM) is one of the stocks analysts...
Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently
China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington a…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting The pendant on Rebecca Jensen-Clem’s necklace is composed of 36 silver hexagons en…
OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty" partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?
For many many years, experts have warned about massive longstanding flaws in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signaling System 7), a series of protocols used by cellular networks hackers can exploit to track user location, dodge encryption, and even…
CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor
TSMC is accelerating the rollout of advanced process nodes at its Arizona fabs to meet growing demand for American-made AI products.…
Americans are not peasants. We are citizens of a republic founded on the revolutionary proposition that ordinary people can govern themselves. This isn’t poetry or aspiration—it’s the foundational premise of the American project. And right now, a faction of t…
The Intel NUC family of tiny mini PCs was ahead of its time in many ways—and Asus apparently agreed, given that the company took the brand off Intel’s hands in 2023. The new ROG NUC series under Asus’ gaming brand is kind of a replacement for Intel’s gaming-f…
From pro-Palestine students to Charlie Kirk commenters, the immigration system is being weaponized against people whose views Trump doesn’t like.
The post Unions Sue to Stop AI Surveillance Powering Trump’s “Catch and Revoke” Deportation Scheme appeared first…
TSMC reported strong third-quarter earnings, with executives pointing specifically to the "mega trend" of AI as the force powering its stellar results.
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SEOUL/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Micron plans to stop supplying server chips to data centres in China after the business failed to recover from a 2023 government...
When Apple first released the iPhone Air last month, it was missing from a key market: China. This was because the iPhone Air is eSIM-only due to its ultra-thin design, and China has strict regulations about eSIM technology.
Today, however, the iPhone Air …
Microsoft is reportedly planning to move Surface production out of China by 2026 and is also encouraging Xbox production to be shifted overseas. The move comes amid escalating U.S.–China trade tensions, with new tariffs, port fees, and export restrictions dri…
My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Revisiting “Intelligence Drift” Why AI models still feel like they’re getting dumber. Anecdotal but widespread experience of LLMs seeming great at first, then getting progressively “dumber” over time. With models like…
California this week signed a new law that tries to prevent your landlord and broadband ISP from teaming up and preventing you from using broadband competitors. Starting January 1, AB1414 requires that landlords “allow the tenant to opt out of paying for any …
The United States Mint will feature Steve Jobs on a commemorative $1 coin next year, as apart of the 2026 American Innovation Coin Program, according to a press release from the US Mint. The program originally launched in 2018 to honor significant innovators …
Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) is one of the AI Stocks Analysts Are Watching Closely. On October 15, RBC Capital reiterated its Sector Perform rating on the...
This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side (and the top spot on the funny side). In first place for insightful, it’s a comment about Elon Musk’s disastrous impact on the government: The worst part about it isn’t just that the Fox News spo…
We recently published 10 Trending Stocks to Watch as Brad Gerstner Explains Tailwinds for AI Trade – ’10x Manhattan Project’. Blue Owl Capital Inc (NYSE:OWL)...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his company has lost all access to China's market after U.S. export restrictions eliminated what was once a 95% share. Speaking in an interview with Citadel Securities, Huang questioned the wisdom of policies that cost America one…
AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs
US manufacturing of Nvidia GPUs is underway and CEO Jensen Huang is celebrating the first Blackwell wafer to come out of TSMC's Arizona chip factory. However, to be part of a co…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle The news: Science Corporation—a competitor to Neur…
Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration's power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a le…
Six months after the AI 2027 project launched, Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh Podcast argued for much longer timelines to superhuman coding agents. We review how AI Futures forecasters (Daniel Kokotajlo, Eli Lifland, Nikola Jurkovic) have updated their timelines…
Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers
NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing …
Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting
Readers of texts created to use the styles of famous authors prefer works written by AI to human human-written imitations, but only after develo…
We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today. I’m talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson about a lot of big news the company just announced. That includes a Google Gemini-powered AI assistant that’s coming …
More than 1,100 public figures have signed a statement calling for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence. The signatories included Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, Apple co-founder Steve Woznia…
NASA has reopened SpaceX's $4.4 billion moon lander contract to new bidders like Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin after delays in Starship's development threatened the 2027 Artemis 3 mission. Reuters reports: The move paves the way for rivals such as Jeff Bezo…
When the updated Apple Vision Pro lands in stores tomorrow with the M5 chip and the new Dual Knit Band, its box label will also feature a key change from the original version: the words “Product of Vietnam”. Here are the details.
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If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week saw a massive outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that managed to take many of your favorite websites …
If you’ve noticed your electricity bill is higher than normal recently, you’re not alone. Power is getting more expensive everywhere, outpacing inflation. One major culprit? The flurry of new data centers being built to meet demand from the AI sector. To find…
Well, that’s not very subtle. In an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he needs more control over Tesla, as well as a pay package that could be worth nearly $1 trillion, in exchange for building a “robot army.” Otherwise, he could get ousted a…
As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental...
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A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny access to list of streaming sites. A lawyer who acted for Canal+ says that led to measurable progress, desp…
Big Tech earnings are on deck next week with Magnificent Seven companies Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), and Meta...
“We can’t rule out that at some point, he’ll decide to leave the automotive industry to refocus on humanoid robots, SpaceX, or artificial intelligence.”
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…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for carbon removal? After years of growth that spawned hundreds of startups, the nascent carbon removal secto…
Also: Battlefield 6's next patch sounds great, Forza Motorsport isn't dead, God of War leaks, and a vampire game bites the dust
The post Here’s Why Fortnite, Roblox And More Of The Internet Stopped Working Last Week appeared first on Kotaku.
A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
The long-rumored Halo CE Remake has finally been revealed, showcasing The Silent Cartographer mission rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5. Fans are split between excitement and concern — praising the visuals, mature tone, and attention to nostalgia, while criticizing …
'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'
Messaging service Signal may be unusual in its deployment of credible end-to-end encryption, but it shares a common availability vulnerability…
Drones could replace large US Army units in Europe...
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As crypto-based prediction services attract a flood of attention and capital, the US president’s social media platform has announced plans to muscle in.
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. O…
Some states are passing new laws requiring artificial intelligence to be clearly labeled, especially in regulated industries or on high-stakes documents such as police reports. The labels are crucial for people who'd rather not use AI at all.
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire oligarch class to seize control of knowledge production it…
Apple CEO Tim Cook was one of the guests today at an event for business leaders in Japan, where President Trump highlighted Apple’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar investment in U.S. infrastructure. Here are the details.
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In a new interview, Microsoft CEO offered some rare comments on Xbox's gaming strategy, talking up the new console and musing on the death of the Xbox exclusive.
Windows Centralby jez@windowscentral.com (Jez Corden) , Jez Corden
Editor's Note: This essay is part of a new series exploring how AI is transforming the way physical products are imagined, designed, and built. Hardware is the New Salt will spotlight several thinkers and makers at the intersection of AI and product design an…
I’m not saying this unholy matrimony wouldn’t have occurred under any other regime, but it’s definitely the sort of thing that plays well with the Oval Office while it’s housing Donald Trump. Both Flock Safety and Ring have weathered plenty of negative press,…
Nvidia today became the first public company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting the milestone 3.5 months after surpassing $4 trillion.
Over the past week, Nvidia's shares have climbed 14.5 percent due to demand for its GPUs and the pos…
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference isn’t making many waves for gamer or PC hardware crowds this year, perhaps because it seems to be exclusively interested in boosting hardware for “AI” and data centers. So it’s almost ironic that a phony version of the keyno…
An anonymous reader shares a report: The International Criminal Court will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv. The switch comes amid rising co…
As promised, the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr this week voted to begin dismantling rules requiring that your ISP offer clear and transparent details on the cost and limitations of your broadband connection. The rules, originally mandated by Congress as part o…
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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 …
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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…
ICE’s investigative division, increasingly involved in ground-level immigration enforcement, is using Nvidia tech to crunch data.
The post ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia appeared first on The Intercept.
We recently published Top Analyst Calls: 8 Stocks to Buy and Sell. NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the top analyst calls. Patrick Moorhead of Moor...
As 2026 approaches, tech behemoth Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is gearing up for a critical year filled with significant product launches and potential executive...
Federal departments and agencies are backing a TP-Link ban, which stems from national security risks related to the company's complicated ties to China.
Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a catastrophic failure. Meet the team of hackers who are ready to jump into action
U.S. corporate profits have risen to record levels this year as companies eliminated nearly 1 million jobs. Chen Zhao of Alpine Macro calls the disconnect a "jobless boom." Companies typically cut workers when profits decline. Amazon laid off 30,000 employees…
The route to Tuesday’s “landmark” announcement of streaming quotas in Australia has been long and torturous, and the country’s production community is now beginning to assess what the future will look like. Will, as streamers sources often privately claim, th…
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.
OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? It won’t be Altman.
The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
Meta on Friday floated plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028 as part of a massive datacenter expansion.…
We recently published 10 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to American Politicians. ServiceNow Inc (NYSE:NOW) is one of the best AI stocks to buy. Congressman ...
We recently published 10 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to American Politicians. Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of the best AI stocks to buy. On Sept. 17...
We recently published 10 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to American Politicians. Qualys Inc (NASDAQ:QLYS) is one of the best AI stocks to buy. Qualys Inc...
The rally has placed them among the best performers in the stock market, dwarfing the returns of popular artificial intelligence plays like Palantir...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment on our post about receiving a bogus DMCA takedown from CyberGhost over our previous post about receiving a bogus DMCA takedown from CyberGhost: Sometimes the cover-up’s wo…
Entertainment website Hollywood.com has said it is partnering with cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com to launch a prediction market feature. “Partnering with...
Vaishnavi Srinivasagopalan, a skilled Indian IT professional who has worked in both India and the U.S., has been looking for work in China. Beijing's new K-...
We’re all out of it. How to get it back is an open secret
Opinion When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, thou…
For the last decade or so, U.S. cable TV customers have been plagued by a steady parade of content blackouts as cable providers and broadcasters bicker over new programming contracts. For the end user, so-called “retransmission feuds” usually go something lik…
Google unveiled its biggest-ever investment in Germany on Tuesday, pledging 5.5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for a new data centre and other projects, as...
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Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is Amercia's great hope
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) could become standard at datacenters as AI infrastructure expand, with analysts forecasting 20 GW of capacity deployed over th…
A collaboration between NASA and Lockheed Martin has produced the Quesst, a supersonic aircraft that produces sonic "thumps" when it breaks the sound barrier.
The most important question facing the console is the one Valve isn't ready to answer
The post Valve’s Steam Machine Could Cost More Than A PS5 Pro appeared first on Kotaku.
The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.
(Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has secured deals that will ensure it receives payments from fintech companies for access to its customer bank account data by...
Brussels reviewing proposal as Mountain View insists it will appeal antitrust ruling
Google has proposed a plan to the European Commission aimed at addressing antitrust concerns following a €2.95 billion fine imposed on the company for its online advertising …
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) ranks among the best financial stocks to buy according to billionaire Ken Fisher. Following an investor meeting with the...
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael …
After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data…
Commerce Department proposes TP-Link router ban over Chinese security risks. Learn how this potential prohibition could affect your home network and devices.
Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference
SAP and Microsoft have struck a partnership designed to provide safeguards for users of the US vendor's cloud services in Europe during "times of crisis."…
The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts
A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…
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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…
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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…
If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from ma…
President Donald Trump is mulling an executive order that would block state laws requiring AI companies to publish transparency reports and disclose how they train models.
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This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month.
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Arizona's economy was once dominated by the "five C's": cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufacturing facilities are springing up across the greater Phoenix …
The publisher silences speculation with a very normal earnings call
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Sales of an A.I. toy bear have been suspended after researchers found that the bear openly discussed sexually explicit and dangerous content with children.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. …
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about the many problems with the idea of upload filters, while Poland was trying to get them excluded from the EU Copyright Directive. Twitch was continuing to trip over itself in response to its DMCA…
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is among the stocks Wall Street analysts are watching closely. On November 19, Reuters reported that a federal judge had...
Michael Burry, famous for his accurate prediction of the mid-2000s US housing bubble burst, has once again stirred the pot in the financial world. This time,...
The lawmakers say Meta's platforms may be implicated in "about a third of all US scams" and linked to more than $50 billion in consumer losses last year.
NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments." From a report: The Chocolate Factory will support the military alliance's Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Centre (J…
DONGGUAN, China (Reuters) -A factory next to a weed-ridden lot in China's industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a...
Valve will not say what the Steam Machine's price is just yet, and in this information vacuum, people are offering all kinds of different theories and guesses as to what the six-inch cube-like system may cost. Now, Valve has yet again commented on the pricing…
Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic
Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…
The US Patent Office is about to gut the only effective tool we have for killing bad patents—and they’re doing it by administrative fiat, without Congress, in a way that would make patent trolling easier than it’s been in over a decade. They need to hear from…
Hello and welcome back to Regulator. It's been a very long two weeks away from your inboxes, but luckily for us, Big Tech and Big Government did not stop fighting. In fact, it's gotten even spicier. Let's get into it. Last week, I was following up on several …
A racist TV series that makes fun of a minor social-media celebrity has attracted millions of viewers—and demonstrates the alarming possibilities of AI.
It is not exactly a secret that, in recent years, Destiny 2 hasn't been doing so hot. Frequenters of the pseudo-MMO have found certain expansions and updates to be disappointing, and for a live service game a few too many disappointments can be devastating. N…
This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month.
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Fresh data reveals where AI search value is actually accumulating, and which companies may face painful down rounds.
The post The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The P2S was originally released in October, but the US market was omitted due to 'logistics.' However, it seems that they have been overcome, and the printer is now available in the US.
December 23rd, 2025. That’s the day DJI will automatically be banned from the United States — unless Trump steps in. You’ll still be able to fly your existing DJI drones and film with existing Osmo cameras. But DJI will be barred from importing any new produc…
While all Macs are now powered by Apple's custom-designed chips, a new rumor claims that Apple may rekindle its partnership with Intel, albeit in a new and limited way.
Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said Intel is expected to begin shippin…
Can Dutch higher education part ways with Microsoft? The sector is trying to break free, and alternatives are being explored here and there. At the same time, more and more tasks are being completed by Microsoft tools.
Apple currently partners exclusively with TSMC for production of its M-series chips, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that may change soon, with Intel being brought in as an important new supplier.
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Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is one of the AI Stocks on the Market’s Radar. On November 24, Susquehanna raised its price target on the stock to $110.00 from...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the AI Stocks Making Headlines on Wall Street. On November 25, DA Davidson reiterated its Neutral rating on the stock ...
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the AI Stocks Making Headlines on Wall Street. On November 25, Bank of America maintained a positive outlook on...
REN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) ranks among the best short squeeze stocks to buy right now. On November 19, Citizens began coverage of IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN...
Dell Technologies Inc. (NYSE:DELL) is one of the AI Stocks Making Headlines on Wall Street. On November 26, Goldman Sachs raised its price target on the...
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the AI Stocks Making Headlines on Wall Street. On November 25, TD Cowen analyst John Blackledge reiterated a Buy...
David Sacks’ role as President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report...
CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is included in our list of the 12 oversold global stocks to invest in. Recently, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest ETFs continued to...
Samsung Foundry and TSMC are the only firms in the world that have started the mass production of 2nm chips. Intel decided to start making chips for other firms two years ago, and it appears that Apple is interested in using Intel's 18A (1.8nm class) process …
The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, the world's biggest chipmaker. But now the company is looking abroad for places to grow.
A Cyber Monday deal at Best Buy will net you a $100 gift card when you buy an Xbox Series X, making it easily the best deal on an Xbox console this season.
Windows Centralby samuelwtolbert@gmail.com (Samuel Tolbert) , Samuel Tolbert
Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.
Little has changed in the PC graphics-card market, according to a new report Monday. Nvidia still controls the vast majority of the PC graphics card market, but Intel actually has a small share.
Yes, Intel and its partners managed to sell enough PC grap…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup (source paywalled; alternative source) trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in …
Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML
The US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief…
Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue
A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and t…
Internet infrastructure company DDoS-Guard is concerned by the power granted to Spain's LaLiga in its fight against piracy. Describing the scale of over-blocking as "astonishing", Dmitry Nikonov, Head of Web Application Protection, believes that LaLiga is bec…
First, let’s dispense with the theater: the question of whether DOGE “still exists” as a formal entity completely misses the point. The always-misleadingly-named “Department of Government Efficiency” was never really about efficiency. It was Elon Musk’s excus…
OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere
The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilo…
In 2024, a Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania, Shamaine Daniels, used an AI chatbot named Ashley to call voters and carry on conversations with them. “Hello. My name is Ashley, and I’m an artificial intelligence volunteer for Shamaine Daniels’…
BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU...
From graphics cards to mid-sized cars, you can’t find any new electronics that don’t claim to be “AI-powered” in some way. That includes Logitech’s mice and keyboards, some of which are being loaded specifically with “AI” buttons. But the CEO of Logitech says…
The best Stratechery content from the week of December 1, 2025, including what the Times missed in its David Sacks story, Atlassian's history and near future, and Code Red at OpenAI.
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a new bill to restrict Nvidia (NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and other chip makers from exporting advanced chips to China. The move comes as the Trump administration weighs the possibility of allowing …
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the AI Stocks Analysts are Tracking Closely. On December 3, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Deepak Mathivanan reiterated a...
We recently published 10 Stocks Sparking Massive Fortunes. CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of the best performers on Friday. CoreWeave saw its share...
We recently published 10 Stocks Sparking Massive Fortunes. D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) is one of the best performers on Friday. D-Wave Quantum grew its...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is rkhalloran with a comment about keeping kids safe online: The correct answer is ACTUALLY PARENT YOUR KIDS. This is the digital version of finding “nudie mags” under your kid’s bed then trying to sue …
Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation’s artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China.
The involvement of La…
Today, I’m talking with Willem Avé, who’s head of product at Square. You know Square — it was started by billionaire Jack Dorsey, of Twitter fame, more than 15 years ago, and it got big on the back of that little magnetic reader that plugged into the headphon…
The developer of the most popular app used to share information about sightings of federal immigration agents sued the Trump administration on Monday...
Last October’s ICEBlock was removed from the App Store following pressure from the US government. Now, the app’s developer, Joshua Aaron, is suing 14 representatives of the administration. Here are the details.
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Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation
Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICE…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he would allow Nvidia to sell an advanced type of computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to...
Eline Van Der Velden, founder and CEO of Particle6 and creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood, addressed the pushback that AI actors are going to replace human ones.
Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Ryan Vlastelica and Felice Maranz
Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits
US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.…
As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US
Three US-based businessmen face potential prison sentences after authorities dismantled a smuggling network accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to Chin…
Score more with Xbox and this latest collaboration, for real. It's not a console, a PC, or even a piece of tech. Say hello to the first Xbox dartboard!
Windows Centralby richard.devine@futurenet.com (Richard Devine) , Richard Devine
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman telling Jimmy Fallon that he "can't imagine" raising a baby without ChatGPT nearly had me chewing a string of plugged-in Christmas lights.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul's announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first of its kind in the US, describing it as a "common sense" l…
We’ve covered how there’s a real push afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. Unfortunately, while all fifty states have at least flirted…
Every week at The Verge, we’re tracking what’s happening with Trump Mobile’s promised and yet undelivered Android phone. Why? Because we cover phones. We also cover vaporware, which the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) very well may be. The smartphone has now bee…
Chipmaker Intel, has tested chipmaking tools this year from a toolmaker with deep roots in China and two overseas units that were targeted by U.S. sanctions,...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Alexandra Alper and Max A. Cherney
Finding hidden geothermal systems, where there is no visible sign on the surface of the heat below, is expensive and time-consuming. Zanskar says AI can help...
My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Howard Marks: Is It a Bubble? Ours is a remarkable moment in world history. A transformative technology is ascending, and its supporters claim it will forever change the world. To build it requires companies to invest…
The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well. There have been just countless examples where affluent media owners rushed to embrace automation and LLMs (usually to cut corners a…
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…
Instead, the sector is booming as artificial intelligence powers massive demand for all kinds of energy. The S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index has...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Marton Kasnyik and Sagarika Jaisinghani
Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB) is one of the Best Aerospace Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. On December 8, Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ:RKLB...
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of America's Communications Decency Act.
"The law prevents most civil suits against users or services that are based on what others say," explains an …
Time Magazine's famed "Person of the Year" was dedicated to the architects of AI this year, and the lack of representation for Microsoft betrays how far the company has fallen behind.
Windows Centralby jez@windowscentral.com (Jez Corden) , Jez Corden
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is…
Kick, the controversial streaming platform, announced a partnership with Xbox
The post Twitch’s Controversial, Gambling-Heavy Rival Just Got An App On Xbox appeared first on Kotaku.
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of ...
Sometimes having a multi-billion dollar idea a decade ahead of the competition is the problem. The story of how, and why, I managed not to become a billionaire after inventing "OnlyFans".
Delphi Interactive doesn't seem to have any developers
The post The Big Mystery Surrounding Netflix’s New FIFA Game Is Who’s Actually Making It appeared first on Kotaku.
U.S. President Donald Trump's social media firm is entering the fusion-power business through a $6 billion merger with privately held TAE Technologies...
Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants, issuing a long-awaited order Thursday, as...
Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. This year, politics was a recurring theme. Donald Trump swept back into office and used his executive pen to reshape the fortunes of entire sectors, from r…
Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday, and a bold plan to break gro…
TikTok's owner ByteDance has signed a deal creating a U.S.-focused joint venture majority-owned by American and global investors, allowing the app to avoid a U.S. ban while ByteDance retains a minority stake. The BBC reports: Half of the joint venture will be…
The Anduril Chromatic device is made for ‘performance and reliability’ in case you’re playing Tetris in a warzone, I guess?
The post Palmer Luckey’s Retro Gaming Company Is Selling A Game Boy Made Of The Same Metal As Attack Drones appeared first on Kotaku.
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisms about TikTok significantly worse. Quite an accomplishment. The Ch…
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like the…
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, USA Today published its latest bogus oped against Section 230 that misrepresented the law, a district court rejected CDT’s challenge of Trump’s ridiculous executive order about 230, and Trump appointed an unqualified 230-hate…
TikTok has finalized a deal with new US owners including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake. However, these investors will not have significant control over key...
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of thetech and consumer sector stocks that Jim Cramer talked about. Cramer made a note of his appreciation of the...
Leonardo DRS Inc. (NASDAQ:DRS) is one of the best aerospace and defense stocks to buy according to Wall Street analysts. On December 16, the company...
Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Thomas Urbain with Luna Lin in Beijing
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing
Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, in time for…
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be destroyed if the big evil government inte…
The incident occurred at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, near Denver, and involved a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Here’s a fun game the Trump administration keeps playing: destroy a successful government program, wait a few months, then breathlessly announce you’ve “invented” the exact same thing but with obvious corruption mechanisms baked in. Last week, the administrat…
If you’ve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wouldn’t even let you use a competing GPS mapping app, locking you to V…
AI slop infected more games, cool stuff was canned, people lost their jobs, and other horrible video game news from 2025
The post The 10 Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2025 appeared first on Kotaku.
If your product is even a third as innovative and useful as you claim it is, you shouldn’t have to go around trying a little too hard to convince people. The product’s usefulness should speak for itself. And you definitely shouldn’t be forcing people to use p…
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) is included in our list of the best rising tech stocks to buy now. As of December 22, 2025, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) remains a...
Serve Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ:SERV) is one of the most promising small-cap industrial stocks under $50. At the close of play on December 22, the consensus...
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Congress sold out to Hollywood yet again by sneaking the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill into the funding omnibus, with the former introducing absolutely insane damages especially when compared to COVID stimulus money. M…
Sandisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) is one of the best performing S&P 500 stocks in 2025. On December 8, JPMorgan initiated coverage of SanDisk with a Neutral ...
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) is one of the most active US stocks to buy according to analysts. On December 17, Wedbush initiated coverage of D-Wave...
Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW) is one of the best emerging technology stocks to invest in. On December 19, KeyBanc initiated coverage of Redwire with a...
Vertical Aerospace Ltd. (NYSE:EVTL) is one of the best emerging technology stocks to invest in. On December 15, Needham raised the firm’s price target on...
Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS) is one of the most active US stocks to buy according to analysts. On December 15, Stifel analyst Jonathan Siegmann...
KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) is one of the best performing S&P 500 stocks in 2025. On December 16, Bank of America raised the firm’s price target on KLA...
“The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.”
The post These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up. appeared first on The Intercept.
Bots are gambling on games like Dota 2 and LoL via Polymarket
The post How Trump’s Culture Of Corruption Allows A Bot To Make $230,000 Betting On Video Games appeared first on Kotaku.
Ten years ago, the answer to the question of whether you should get fixed broadband or settle for mobile was simple: Yes, you should, as long as it is technically possible and not outrageously expensive. Mobile broadband was an emergency solution for summer c…
A delivery robot was spotted trying to go around a motorcycle parked on a Los Angeles sidewalk — but still ended up hitting the bike and knocking it over.
In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncover…
Tenable Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:TENB) is one of the best NASDAQ stocks to buy in 2026. On December 18, Morgan Stanley lowered the firm’s price target on...
Trump and Musk's debacle was a failure on every level for the American people, however it was a huge success for the ones that wanted to steal all our data and dismantle government.
We covered the damage Musk and his DOGE bros did quite extensively here, whet…
If you remain unconvinced up to this point and still want to stay on the MechaHitler site that publishes CSAM and removes women and girls' clothing for an audience of millions without their consent, I ask, what will it take for you to quit a site that only ab…
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
The post AI’s Imperial Agenda appeared first on The Intercept.
Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something …
Remember when government agents didn't wear masks?
While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.…<!--#include …
It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies' skin - and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities around their data centers. The company announced a five-poi…
US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips
Chinese companies may be unable to import the best US GPUs, but they have found a workaround: renting access to that hardware via cloud services. Now, the US House of Representatives is …
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid For decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered our phon…
Energy regulators and advocates are cautiously optimistic about Microsoft's promise to "pay its own way" for the power needed to serve its AI footprint.
We’ve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether it’s at border crossings or international airports. At some point, the tech will move inland and become an annoying part of traveling from Point A to B because nati…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint The popularity of commercial nuclear react…
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday. Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwanese technology companies w…
Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft's digital subscriptions to leading US newspapers, a…
China is working to set rules on how many advanced artificial intelligence chip companies can buy from foreign makers such as Nvidia, Nikkei Asia reported...
Dutch privacy advocates, legal scholars and technology experts are demanding immediate transparency from the Ministry of Economic Affairs over the planned acquisition of Solvinity, the Dutch company that operates the platform underlying DigiD, by the U.S. mul…
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Hours after a coalition of digital rights, child safety, and women’s rights organizations asked Apple to “take immediate action” against X and Grok AI, xAI confirmed that Grok will no longer edit “images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” …
EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands
Amid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available today …
So let me get this straight. The United States government spent years championing a ban on TikTok, rushed it through the Supreme Court with claims of grave national security threats, got a 9-0 ruling blessing government censorship of an entire platform used b…
My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • 10 Breakthrough Technologies: Here are the advances that we think will drive progress or incite the most change—for better or worse—in the years ahead. (MIT Technology Review) • $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Det…
Prediction market apps are thriving in Trump's second term, with traders betting on migrant deportations to election outcomes. A community of young, mostly male and very online traders are driving the industry's bonanza.
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) is one of the Hot AI Stocks to Keep on Your Radar. On January 13, Piper Sandler analyst Clarke Jeffries reiterated an Overweight...
KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On January 13, TD Cowen analyst Krish Sankar upgraded the stock from Hold to “...
Tesla is probably the most recognizable name in the United States for electric vehicles, but that's not the case in the rest of the world, particularly China...
By Jaspreet Kalra and Nikunj Ohri MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - India's central bank has proposed that BRICS countries link their official digital...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate Just before Christmas the Trump administration dramati…
This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei isn’t happy about the US allowing Nvidia to sell GPUs to Chinese companies, and likened the decision to giving nuclear weapons to an adversary.…<…
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang attended or donated to President DonaldTrump's inauguration. All of them got richer last year.
The AI boom is threatening white-collar entry jobs—but it’s creating a booming six-figure opportunity for electricians, plumbers, and construction workers.
We spent a lot of time last year calling out how dangerous it was that Elon Musk and his inexperienced 4chan-loving DOGE boys were gaining access to some of the most secure government systems. We also highlighted how it seemed likely that they were violating …
TikTok’s future in the US has reached a major milestone today, as the new US-owned spinoff for American users has officially launched. Here’s what that means for TikTok users in the US today, and moving forward.
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TikTok has secured its future by agreeing to split the US app from the global business. But the deal will spark changes to how the app's algorithm works.
TikTok's US spinoff to Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX has closed after a White House official said the US and China finalized the deal.
The post TikTok US Deal Closes After Years Of Regulatory Uncertainty appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The project aims to create a decentralized satellite internet network, with the initial satellites, CTC-0 and CTC-1, already demonstrating blockchain-based communication from space.
TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson Jamie Favazza pointed to a statement posted to the joint venture's newly-created X account, which …
TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing the sale of its US arm, though some issues appear to have spread globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day after troubles began, making it difficult to surmise the ex…
For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk's Grok started undressing children on X. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to growing co…
While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center that it is working to resolve. Rumors of censorship targeti…
Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser that has spent two decades battling tech giants over control of the internet, is now turning its attention to AI and deploying roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to fund what president Mark Surman c…
Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later
Salesforce is getting cosier with the US Army via a deal worth up to $5.6 billion, selling cloud analytics as the groundwork for a future agentic AI push across the service and the wider DoD.…
Redmond has pledged to be carbon-negative by 2030
It's no secret that datacenters use a ton of water for cooling, a demand that can strain local supplies. Despite reported internal forecasts showing sharply higher water use by 2030, Microsoft continues to spl…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pushing OpenAI for assurances it won't seek a government bailout if it doesn't turn a profit. In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Warren says she is concerned that the company is preparing to fall back "on the classic strategy of…
Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate
Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewabl…
Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it soun…
The GDC 2026 survey offers a grim snapshot of the current video game industry
The post Developers Hate AI, Want Unions, And Are Abandoning Xbox According To This New Survey appeared first on Kotaku.
Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you
Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our cu…
We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without its warts, but it had the potential to be truly transformative for U.S…
As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now to be applied to virtually every lever of power. While Kar…
President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems.
The Trump administration keeps demonstrating that it really hates affordable broadband. It particularly hates it when the government tries to make broadband affordable to poor people or rural school kids. In just the last year the Trump administration has: I’…
In the grand scheme of things — the wanton cruelty, the routine violations of rights, the actual fucking murders — this may only seem like a blip on the mass deportation continuum. But this report from Dell Cameron for Wired is still important. It not only ex…
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Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through “final assembly” in Miami and full assembly in the US is a “goal” — I spoke to two Trump Mobile executives for an exclusive first loo…
It was only a matter of time before the illegal, erratic, inhumane, and cruel behaviours and policies of the second Trump regime were going to affect the open source world in a possibly very visible way. Christian Hergert, longtime GNOME and Linux contributor…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the 10 AI Stocks to Keep on Your Radar. On February 4, UBS reiterated the stock as “Neutral” stating that its checks show ...
Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make it a lightning rod for the techlash. The statute has survived…
Gartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers
European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services…
One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all
FOSDEM 2026 Amid growing interest in digital sovereignty and getting data out of the corporate cloud and into organizations' ownership, the Matrix op…
In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abiliti…
My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Andreessen Horowitz’s Rising Influence Over Trump-Era AI Policy: The VC giant is shaping how Washington thinks about artificial intelligence — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. (Bloomberg free) • “Everything is gambling…
JPMorgan appointed Guy Halamish as the chief operating officer of the corporate and investment bank as part of an effort to "maximize the impact of AI."
Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…
An Argentine court has expanded the crackdown on pirate IPTV services Magis TV and Xuper TV, blocking more than 70 domains, while ordering Google to disable sideloaded Android apps. As the pirate services suddenly went dark across the South American country o…
The Fox News AI Newsletter covers the latest artificial intelligence technology advancements, including the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future.
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics
The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical …
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the AI stocks currently on Wall Street’s radar. Crowdstrike is trading at an attractive valuation...
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of the AI stocks currently on Wall Street’s radar. AI-focused cloud computing company CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) received a fresh...
Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) is one of the 12 best mid cap AI stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On February 11, Needham analyst Quinn Bolton...
Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) is one of the 12 best mid cap AI stocks to buy according to hedge funds. Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) reported...
Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ:FRSH) is one of the 12 best mid cap AI stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On February 11, Cantor Fitzgerald reduced its price...
Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE:ZETA) is one of the 12 best mid cap AI stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On February 9, RBC Capital analyst Matthew...
Fears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) is one of the 15 AI Stocks That Are Skyrocketing. On February 12, DA Davidson initiated...
Badged versions of TP-Link routers are supplied to US customers by more than 300 ISPs, making them the most widely used Wi-Fi routers in the country, found in millions of US homes.
It therefore caused grave concern when security researchers at Microsoft fo…
We are calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data. In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in…
Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago.
But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engadge…
If you’ve spent any time in my Section 230 myth-debunking guide, you know that most bad takes on the law come from people who haven’t read it. But lately I keep running into a different kind of bad take—one that often comes from people who have read the law, …
Apple yesterday announced plans to start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US and has now shared more details of the initiative, alongside photos and video footage.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is also accelerating production of AI servers made in t…
Tax season starts early this year. Or at least it should for you, because this one is a doozy. Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which Congress passed in 2025, there are some significant and potentially confusing changes coming to your tax ret…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. imm…
California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.
Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…
Earlier this year we noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules making it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acquisition and merger conditions a…
Surveillance technology intended to protect endangered species is weaponized against locals, with repercussions that range from harassment to physical violence.
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In late 2024, Trump Republicans killed a very popular program that provided low-income Americans $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was, unsurprisingly, very popular, with more than 23 million Americans be…
Financial Times:
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October — Reflection AI's new funding talks come as Trump administration seeks US rivals …
American AI companies love to say that the US must win the AI arms race, or China will. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all invoked the threat of a Chinese victory to justify speeding ahead on AI development, seemingly no matter what. The…
U.S. TikTok users were experiencing service disruptions Tuesday related to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure issue. Something similar happened almost exactly a month ago.
We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data from them. If that someone turns out to be a child, congratulations: you’ve …
Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protection pledge." It's one way they're responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech compani…
Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news itself in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways. My guest today is Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, w…
Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigat…
FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things
The US government is consulting with the telecoms industry about "reciprocity" in satellite services, in a move that could see another dispute erupt with the European Union ov…
Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway?
Seven of the top US AI companies and hyperscalers have officially agreed to protect American consumers from price hikes due to datacenter energy and infrastructure increases caused by the AI …
Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad
The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the U…
Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'
AI giant Anthropic says that it has "no choice" but to sue the US government after being officially designated a supply chain risk to national security.…
Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead
China’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal.…<!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitep…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now For years, MIT Technology Review’s newsroom has been ahead of the …
Nvidia Corp. is adjusting its production strategy amid uncertainty over U.S. export approvals, which continue to limit shipments of advanced AI chips to...
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (NASDAQ:VOD) is one of the most promising stocks under $20. On March 2, Vodafone entered a partnership with Amazon Leo,...
Public officials and journalists will soon be able to keep track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves on YouTube through the platform's likeness detection feature. The tool is already available to millions of content creators on YouTube, but beginning Tues…
FAA launches pilot projects starting this summer
The skies over parts of the US could soon get busier, as the Federal Aviation Administration launches pilot projects spanning 26 states to test electric air taxis and other next-gen aircraft, with operations ex…
Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon. The back-and-forth is complicated, but as of a few days ago, the Pentagon had deemed Anthropic a…
As India’s current phone manufacturing incentive program is about to expire, the country is planning fresh incentives to keep production growing. Here are the details.
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Every phone is a narc whether you realize it or not. The private sector certainly knows what information a cell phone can divulge and has leveraged the always-on nature of these devices to maximize profitability. The public sector — mainly law enforcement age…
The Fox News AI Newsletter covers the latest artificial intelligence technology advancements, including the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future.
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Turning expertise into opportunity for women in cybersecurity Speaker diversity in cybersecurity has been a talking point for over a decade, with panels, pledges…
Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI over claims that the company's Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accu…
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US startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal — The Trump administration is using AI chips and models a…
The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at an…
Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs
GTC Nvidia has called on its supply chain partners to begin manufacturing its ageing H200 GPUs to meet demand for chips in China, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.…
The Trump administration released a national AI framework addressing safety, jobs, energy use and free speech as the U.S. seeks to stay competitive globally.
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.
A walking, talking humanoid robot strolled side-by-side with first lady Melania Trump at the White House for the second day of her international technology summit.
Taking a break from attacking the First Amendment, FCC boss Brendan Carr this week engaged in a strange bit of performance art: his FCC announced that they’d be effectively adding all foreign-made routers to the agency’s “covered list,” in a bid to ban their …
Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of the reality,” he says. Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a Massachusetts-based battery company. It…
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the wo…
CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA
Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…
Public documents revealed that four Chinese universities, including two that worked on military research for the PLA, were able to acquire servers with Nvidia A100 AI chips despite the U.S.'s export controls.
The federal government tried to brand Anthropic, an American AI company, a national security threat for refusing to build surveillance and weapons tools. A federal judge looked at that argument and called it what it is: retaliation. On Friday, Judge Rita F. L…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the Good Stocks to Buy Now. After a long waiting period, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s Siri is expected to get more powerful ...
Interviewer: What do you see as America’s unique advantages that other countries don’t have?
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO: America's unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.
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The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency
As part of Apple’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with Esquire for an in-depth conversation. In the interview, Cook discussed his memory of Steve Jobs, remarking that Apple is “definitely still his company.”
Cook also once again…
For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person's speech. But after failing to secure FDA clearance in time, the company is shutting down and releasing mos…
Senators Cotton and Schumer introduced the American Security Robotics Act to ban federal agencies from using robots tied to foreign adversaries like China.
Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'
European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms ar…
Today, I’m talking with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but that most of us don’t have to interact with very much; it’s not really a consumer brand. But all of us are in some way using Cisco’s produc…
Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it's called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the go…
The Giants have partnered an AI firm, ElevenLabs, which could mean translation services or new music choices will be available at Oracle Park during games.
Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing
President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war
Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in r…
Backers of the 2025 Take It Down Act said the conviction of an Ohio man for producing sexually explicit images and video is proof that the law "has teeth."
Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos. And now the two billionaires are engaged in proxy fights at Trump’s FCC over who’ll get the honor. Amazon’s LEO offering, Project Leo, is significantly …
My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • The AI Jobs Scare Meets 250 Years of Data: What does history show? The economic stories of transformative technologies often display two important elements. 1) A rough patch at some point; 2) Business productivity (e…
The Trump administration’s AI policy is two-faced, torn between deregulation and despotism. In March, the administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, directing Congress to “prevent the United States government from coercing technology provi…
Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ:HUT) is one of the 10 Stocks Powering Portfolios by Double Digits. Hut 8 soared by 37.3 percent week-on-week as investors loaded...
Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ:VERI) is one of the fastest-growing agentic AI stocks to buy. On March 26, 2026, Veritone announced a multi-year agreement with Oracle...
Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) is one of the 9 Best QQQ Stocks to Buy Now. On March 16, Cadence announced an expanded collaboration with Nvidia...
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:HIVE) is one of the 8 best software penny stocks to buy now. On March 16, HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:HIVE)...
Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ:FRSH) is one of the fastest-growing agentic AI stocks to buy. A current read on our thesis for the stocks came on March 4, 2026, when...
This is the latest step by France to reduce reliance on US tech giants and strengthen its digital sovereignty by adopting locally developed software and cloud services.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the Best Long Term Growth Stocks to Invest In According to Billionaires. On April 8, it was announced that Unity...
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of webpages and websites. It performs an invaluable role in preserving information that would otherwise be lost when websites go offline…
Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies
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Find out if your router is banned, when to expect firmware updates and what the latest news on the Federal Communications Commission ban means for your home network.
Trump Mobile now features a third design of the T1 phone, alongside images and videos of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. There's still no release date.
Grassroots opposition to renewing Section 702 of FISA is building, thanks in part to fears about AI used to sort Americans’ data.
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In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we rea…
Mexico is building the Coatlicue supercomputer to deliver sharper weather forecasts, earlier storm warnings and support artificial intelligence research.
A judge has ruled that the Trump administration should not have coerced Apple and Google into taking down apps which track the activity of ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
A preliminary injunction has been awarded, with the creators of ICE Si…
Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts
UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connections to fi…
Late last month we noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas (which means pretty much all of them). At the time we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router manufacturers req…
Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!” — notably including the stock ticker, because why not just make the market ma…
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell ami…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Nature issue When we talk about “nature,” we usually mean something untouched by humans. But little of t…
Eric Trump-backed robot startup lands $24M Pentagon deal...
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The Minnesota House has passed a landmark bill to ban AI nudification apps and websites that create explicit images of people, mostly women, without consent.
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The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned int…
Today, I’m talking with Jennifer Scanlon, who is the CEO of UL Solutions. That’s Underwriters Laboratories – you know, the UL logo listed on all your electronics? That symbol means it’s been tested and found safe in a variety of ways. UL’s been around for 100…
Written off as a legacy chipmaker, Intel is staging a comeback—riding the AI boom, forging alliances, and betting big on a future it once failed to see.
De Nederlandsche Bank will sign a major contract tomorrow with Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of Lidl owner Schwarz Group. DNB aims to reduce its dependence
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awa…
Late last month we noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr announced a new “ban” on all routers made overseas (which means pretty much all of them). At the time, we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router manufacturers re…
If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a founda…
ABC News’ Ike Ejiochi spoke with Joby Aviation’s Chief Product Officer Eric Allison about the company’s innovative air taxis, addressing safety concerns and possible future routes and costs.
Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical miles of the Pacific seafloor in search of critical mineral d…
The Finnish startup Solar Foods leverages a natural microorganism, renewable energy, and green hydrogen to produce Solein, a protein-rich food supplement produced through gas fermentation.
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MAHA’s current plan for making the country healthy again involves an AI revolution. But as Alexandra Sifferlin writes in her new book, ‘The Elusive Body,’ that may not solve Americans’ biggest problem: getting diagnosed.
A new generation of satellite startups in San Francisco is racing to capitalize on recent technological breakthroughs in space-based data collection and communications.
China's regulators stopped Meta's reported $2 billion deal to acquire Manus, an AI startup, requiring all parties to withdraw amid a growing U.S.-China tech rivalry.
Atlantic writer George Packer discusses how tech venture capitalists, who are heavily invested in AI and cryptocurrency, aligned with Trump and influenced policies related to their own investments.
Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on any labs that have testing offices in China from testing electronic devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers for sale in the United States. That’s going to create some ma…
Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It's still unclear which App…
New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlined a new growth strategy, which includes a focus on investing in content as well as artificial intelligence technology.
Reports have been building about Apple potentially partnering with Intel to produce future chips, and according to The Wall Street Journal, a deal has officially been reached.
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In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refused to evenly upgrade broadband in low income and poor areas (despite billions…
ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE:NOW) is one of the Best American AI Stocks to Buy Now. On May 5, KeyBanc reiterated an Underweight rating on ServiceNow and set an $85 ...
Last month we noted how tech companies, automakers, and others were trying to kill Colorado’s existing “right to repair” law, which is supposed to make it cheaper and easier to repair the things you own. More specifically, tech companies like Cisco and IBM we…
No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the sense that they were recordings of real people who, like guest stars on Law and Order, reenacted scen…
Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.
Today on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.
TSMC has been the exclusive supplier of Apple's systems-on-a-chip since 2016, but that 10-year streak could be nearing its end.
Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said that Intel has "kicked off" small-scale testing of lower-end iPhone, iPad, …
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn When Jennifer got a research job in 2023, she ran her new professiona…
Apple has slashed prices on the iPhone 17 Pro series in China by 1,000 yuan (around $138) in anticipation of the annual 618 shopping festival, one of the country's largest mid-year online retail events.
The cuts went live on Friday on JD.com and Tmall, …
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Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11....
The company's first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden …
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:SIMO) was among Jim Cramer’s Mad Money stock calls as he urged investors to exercise caution when it comes to...
A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald…
We’ve talked a lot about how Americans have somehow accepted the fact that our voice networks are now saturated with scammers, fraudsters, and robocallers (no, that’s not something that happens in well run, functionally regulated countries). I’ve also explain…
Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA), which became law one year ago. Starting today, platforms must conspicuously offer a notice…
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone was supposed to launch last year in August, but many future customers who put a $100 pre-sale order were left empty-handed until now. It looks like the T1 Phone is actually happening as the company started distributing units to media…
Just as the T1 Phone is seemingly on the verge of release, Trump Mobile has been accused of insecurely storing customer data, leaving addresses and phone numbers vulnerable. The alleged leak has also revealed how many T1 Phone orders were apparently placed, a…
Trump Mobile’s gold-colored T1 smartphones are set to begin shipping this week, nine months later than originally planned, with the devices reportedly preloaded with Truth Social.
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A federal law requiring online platforms to remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours has officially come into effect.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware and…
Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It's an Alibaba-tier variant of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has an American flag with the wrong number of stripes on it. — R…
Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. Here are the details.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety For months, the Trump administration…
Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating about 3,000 new AI-generated podcasts every single week. The ow…
The Trump Mobile saga continues in the worst way possible. The company's first smartphone, by all accounts a rebranded HTC U24 Pro, which is a device launched in 2024, was first supposed to start shipping in August or September of last year. Obviously, that d…
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Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) was one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar as he highlighted that semiconductor and AI infrastructure stocks are currently in...
Astera Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALAB) was one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar as he highlighted that semiconductor and AI infrastructure stocks are currently...
GlobalFoundries Inc. (NASDAQ:GFS) is one of the best multibagger stocks to buy in 2026. On May 21, GlobalFoundries launched Quantum Technology Solutions to...
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of the best multibagger stocks to buy in 2026. On May 21, Advanced Micro Devices announced a strategic...
A self-taught tech enthusiast who goes by the name "Louis" claims he found a vulnerability in the Trump Mobile website that let him extract customer data using
Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Researcher Claims Trump Mobile Website Leaked Data o…
With a 5-year dividend growth rate of 13.11%, Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) is included among the 10 Best Dividend Growth Stocks to Buy and Hold for 3 Years. On...
Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in the first enyclical of his papacy, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritize conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.
The Los Angeles film industry is struggling, but Vancouver's similar sector is thriving with a mix of industry attention, government support and educational pipelines.
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Sz´The Trump Phone was supposed to be made in America, but ended up being a white-label knockoff of something or other. If it finally exists (if not as a shipping product quite yet), the talent behind it might want to work on their security skills: a security…
The U.S. says it has struck Iran again as peace talks continue to end the conflict. And, the federal government has charged a Google staffer for allegedly using insider information in Polymarket trades.
The Trump Organization still hasn’t shipped their promised Trump phone to most customers who laid down a $100 deposit a year ago. But rubes patriots who signed up did get something else instead: their private data leaked to the public. According to Techcrunch…
“I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.” This is a normal thing to say in most circles. But Carson was speaking at an invite-only…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitt…
America's voting systems are getting old. But unless Congress makes a massive financial commitment, a new report finds it could take decades before voting machines are widely replaced.
Huawei's current Rotating Chairman thanked the United States for its export bans, which boosted the progress of China's semiconductor industry. He made the comment after unveiling the groundbreaking LogicFolding chip architecture, when reporters asked him how…
We just covered the Claude Stock Portfolio: Top 10 Stocks to Buy According to AI Chatbot. Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT) ranks #5 (see Claude Stock Portfolio: Top 5 ...
Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of Renaissance Technologies’ top semiconductor stock picks. Nvidia shares have gained around 60% over the past year. Nvidia ...
Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of Renaissance Technologies’ top semiconductor stock picks. Broadcom shares have gained more than 20% year-to-date and...
Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clea…
Five years years ago AT&T effectively stopped selling DSL and started hanging up on DSL and copper phone line customers. While killing landlines and DSL is understandable given the limitations of the dated copper-based tech, the problem is that thanks to conc…
The whole conversation around AI is about to get much, much worse. We’ve been talking a lot about AI, generative AI, LLMs, or whatever your preferred moniker has become, for some time now. And for good reason. This is a still-emerging technology that has begu…
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough. I wanted to have Ryan on the show…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal …
NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year. NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less …
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was among the stocks on which Jim Cramer gave his opinion, as he warned that increased AI-related spending might cause near-term...
Washington and Wall Street are increasingly colliding over artificial intelligence. As AI becomes both an economic engine and a national security concern...
It’s a bit of a stormy day here. Let’s see what’s going on elsewhere. The “K”-shaped economy comes for laptops: There’s been a trade show this week called Computex (there seems to be a big event in the tech field every other week or so), and Michael Crider of…
Antares Nuclear's Mark-0 microreactor achieves criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, the first advanced reactor to do so under Trump's DOE program.
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
By Michael Martina and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Monday added Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, internet search provider Ba...
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Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenanigans in Washington, DC. (If you're not a subscriber, you can get on board here.) We're back after a two-week hiatus, during most of which I…
India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not having a l…
Upper West Side Assemblymember Micah Lasher and Upper East Assemblymember Alex Bores are running in the Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Assemblymembers Micah Lasher and Alex Bores spent much of the night attacking each other. [ more › ]
When Julie Slama and her husband moved to a home outside Dunbar, Nebraska, in April 2022, they were happy customers of Elon Musk's Starlink. The satellite-ba...
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I’ve noted repeatedly how the Trump administration is going out of its way to not only destroy all oversight of the country’s shitty and predatory telecom monopolies, but to eliminate any and all systems that try to ensure that U.S. broadband access is actual…
The Trump Mobile T1 Phone was announced last year and went through quite a few design iterations in the meantime, but now seems to have been finalized. The phone has started shipping to some media outlets (around nine months after it was first promised to), a…
Back in March I noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr had announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas (which is pretty much all of them). At the time we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router manufacturers requi…
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. Accor…
In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the genesis of progressivism — a response to the Industrial Revolution and the (first) Gilded Age — we cannot now…
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of the most promising growth stocks to buy now. On June 9, Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced it is teaming up with...
With a profit margin of 47.34% and net income of $55.13 billion (FY25), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) ranks among the most...
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) carries a profit margin of 62.97% and net income of $120.07 billion (FY26), securing its place on our list of the most...
With a profit margin of 37.92% and net income of $132.17 billion (FY25), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) ranks among the most profitable blue chip stocks to buy...
Vistance Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:VISN) is one of the best AI networking stocks to buy according to analysts. The company gave investors a recent enterprise ne...
Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVNW) is one of the best AI networking stocks to buy according to analysts. The company gave investors a recent networking infra...
Global-e Online Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLBE) is one of the best e-commerce stocks to buy as global sales hit records. The company powers cross-border direct-to-consume...
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of the best AI networking stocks to buy according to analysts. The company gave investors a fresh AI infrastructure cataly...
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our podcast studio in New York …
Flock cameras track vehicle signatures, pedestrians, and drone footage, feeding the data into searchable AI databases for law enforcement and private users.
Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they're still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export contr…
The governor of California, where science and technology are large parts of the economy, on finding the balance in innovation between taking risks and being reckless
Yesterday we wrote about the Trump administration forcing Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The short version: dumb. Today, Axios got White House officials on the record, and it turns out the real reason is even dumber than we thought. In that orig…
Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs is one of the first people to receive the Trump Mobile T1 Phone – and one of the funniest to review it. The video below is quite long, but it goes into great detail in examining the hardware and software of the phone.
That said, t…
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
Artificial intelligence tools have remarkably broad knowledge about the world, but some of it is unsavory or dangerous. Tech firms try to prevent their chatb...
Yahoo Entertainmentby Kevin Schaul and Nitasha Tiku, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post
President Trump took to TruthSocial tonight to confirm what was previously rumored: Apple and Intel have agreed a partnership where Intel will manufacture chips for future Apple devices, using Intel’s American-based fabrication sites.
The breadth and depth of…
The President of the United States confirmed in a Truth Social post that Apple and Intel have agreed to design and manufacture chips for the Cupertino-based company. Even though there's nothing official from Intel and Apple just yet, Trump's claims on his soc…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last …
Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) features on the list of tech stocks to sell according to billionaires. Billionaire stake dropped from approximately $840.62 million in...
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes: NYT on Hany Farid losing confidence in unaided visual judgment as generative video improves. The impl…
A new geothermal player. Upgrading the grid with wood veneers. How drones are leveling the military playing field. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
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Can second-life EV batteries save the grid from AI? Explore how data centers are repurposing electric vehicle batteries to solve exploding power demands.
Forbesby Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor,
Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor
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At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shut…
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22 setting hard deadlines for federal agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum cryptography.
Key establishment must move by December 31, 2030; digital signatures by December …
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking It’s a bit of a schlep to get to the top of ASML’s newest mach…
Mark Zuckerberg is launching his next major project: a betting platform modeled after Polymarket. The prospects for success are good, alarming experts.
Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its new GPT 5.6 model suite: Sol, the flagshi…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. —Jessica Hamzelou It’s been hot in London this …
The U.S. government ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable and Mythos models has everybody spooked. That’s why it’s a little surprising that OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest rival, is slowly rolling out its latest and most powerful GPT models.
Yes, the GPT-5.6 ser…
After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to restore access to its most advanced AI model for a select group of US companies and government agencies.
The Financial Times reports that Apple is seeking clearance from the Trump administration to purchase memory chips from a blacklisted Chinese company. The move would help it meet demand for product manufacturing during the ongoing global memory supply shortag…
Apple has petitioned the Trump administration to allow it to buy Mac RAM chips from a blacklisted Chinese supplier, to ease the price pressure caused by the global memory crisis.A Samsung LPDDR5X memory chip - Image Credit: SamsungThe tech industry is continu…
Following a historic price hike, the Financial Times reports that Apple is lobbying in Washington to secure approval to buy cheaper RAM from CXMT. The manufacturer is currently designated as a Chinese military company, but is not entirely banned by the White …
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is one of the safe stocks for beginners to buy in 2026. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced on June 24 that computer use is now...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the safe stocks for beginners to buy in 2026. Reuters reported on June 25 that, according to EU antitrust regul...
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is one of the best trending AI stocks to watch in 2026. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) reported on June 22 that Google DeepMind and...
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE:TEL) is one of the best electrical equipment stocks to buy according to analysts. On June 8, Bell Global Equities Fund highlighted...
Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) is among the Best Brain-Computer Interface Stocks. On June 16, Reuters reported that Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP) launched its first consumer...
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the best trending AI stocks to watch in 2026. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), CrowdStrike...
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) is one of the safe stocks for beginners to buy in 2026. Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) announced on June 25 the...
ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is one of the best trending AI stocks to watch in 2026. Wells Fargo lifted the price target on ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML...
CI&T Inc. (NYSE:CINT) is one of the 10 Best Technology Penny Stocks with Huge Upside Potential. On June 8, CI&T Inc. (NYSE:CINT) announced it has joined the...
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the safe stocks for beginners to buy in 2026. Reuters reported on June 23 that Jamendo has sued NVIDIA Corporation...
Arm Holdings plc (NASDAQ:ARM) is one of the 15 Best AI Stocks That Will Make You Rich in 10 Years. On June 24, 2026, TD Cowen raised its price target on Arm...
IBM spent a decade "building, testing and improving" quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.
"This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project."
IB…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) is one of the 10 Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy According to Billionaires. On June 10, Bloomb...
ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is among the Best Semiconductor Stocks. On June 19, Reuters reported that ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) denied ever shippin...
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) is one of the 10 Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy According to Billionaires. since Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan stated that a...
We learned yesterday that Apple is trying to persuade the Trump administration to allow it to buy memory chips from two Chinese companies blacklisted by the Pentagon, CXMT and YMTC.
Apple previously sought permission from the Biden administration to do the sa…
This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open.
The noise is not all noise, either. Forums are talking, researchers are finding easy cracks, and d…
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Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface
Apple reportedly wants to buy Chinese RAM for its products from not one but two different firms. The move would likely require permission from the United States government.
A global memory shortage is pushing Apple to consider alternate RAM suppliers. In all likelihood, this will draw scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers.Memory is in short supply globally — Image credit: SK HynixThe companies in question are ChangXin Memory Technologies…
Microsoft on Tuesday said it's accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected.
"Advances in quantum research an…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and re…
Last month, SpaceX began making lobbying filings in support of phone unlocking rules making it easier to switch your phone between wireless providers. You might recall that the Biden FCC was on the cusp of installing such rules before the Trump administration…
The ongoing memory chip crisis is forcing companies to scramble with new ideas to procure their desired RAM quantities, and Apple is apparently considering a risky move. According to a new Bloomberg News report, Cupertino is currently in talks with two Chines…
EXCLUSIVE: Two international sales agents have boarded the documentary feature Breaking the Code, the inspiring story of Indian immigrant Kanwal Rekhi who became a major figure in the rise of Silicon Valley, laying the foundation for the internet. Concourse M…
A lawmaker suggested to the administration that it should prioritize American manufacturers when it comes to memory chip supplies, but the SEMI industry group is pushing back against this. It says that doing so would only extend the memory chip shortages.
As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of co…
Europe and China favour state-led digital money; the U.S. backs private competition. The divide may decide whether dollars or euros dominate online finance.
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