Articles tagged: Technology Regulation

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The US may deal a massive blow to Huawei

After the Trump administration put Huawei on the denylist four years ago, the Biden administration is likely to strengthen it further.

Android Central by Android Central

AI generator pauses service over deepfake 'abuse'

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.

RTE.ie by RTE.ie

How frightening new AI Midjourney creates realistic fake art

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.

New York Post by New York Post

Elon Musk to start ‘TruthGPT’ AI platform

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.

The Australian Financial Review by The Australian Financial Review

US targets China over semiconductors

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.

Reuters by Reuters

Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen says AI created fake cases in court filing

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

TikTok fate hangs in the balance

Welcome to The Hill’s Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story  House GOP ‘hopeful’ bill to force TikTok sale passes  House Republicans supporting a bill that could ban TikTok said Tuesday they are hopeful it will pass in a floor vote despite vocal opposition from President Trump.   © AP The House is expected to…

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AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

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

Quartz India by Quartz India

Trump labels Venezuela a dictatorship amid election controversy

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 […]

The Indian Express by The Indian Express

Trump warns of World War 3 while pointing finger at Biden’s economic policy

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.

The Indian Express by The Indian Express

Current US Domestic News Highlights: Online Voting, Travis Scott, Trump Campaign Hacked, and More

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Elon Musk's AI Image Generator Is a Deepfaker's Dream

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.

Lifehacker by Lifehacker

Landmark AI bill passes California Assembly

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.

The Mercury News by The Mercury News

Harris not listed on Montana overseas ballots after system glitch

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.

Washington Examiner by Washington Examiner

Trump Administration to Propel Musk's Mars Mission

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Makary Set to Lead America's Most Powerful Drug Regulator

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Tesla stock: Buy, sell, or hold?

Elon Musk's ties to President-elect Donald Trump could help Tesla navigate autonomous technology regulations.

Motley Fool Australia by Motley Fool Australia

Trump Appoints Pro-Consumer FTC Leader Amid Big Tech Antitrust Battle

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Trump and Cook to Discuss Tech Regulations in Key Meeting

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Trump Seeks TikTok Reprieve in Pursuit of Political Solution

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Donald Trump caught in another Musk fight

A battle has erupted between the tech billionaire and MAGA supporters over skilled visas. The incoming president has been caught in the middle.

The Australian Financial Review by The Australian Financial Review

US News Highlights: Biden's Clean Energy Push and Trump's Legal Battles

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Meta's Content Policy Overhaul: A Shift Toward Free Expression

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Raging Winds, Diplomatic Shifts, and Digital Dilemmas: A Day in US News

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Trump in favor of Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok

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.

Yahoo Finance by Yahoo Finance

Meta seeks urgent fix to AI chatbot's confusion on name of US president

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.

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Oracle's Bid to Steer TikTok Amid National Security Concerns

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

U.S. DoJ Again Calls for Google to Sell Chrome

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...

MacRumors by MacRumors

Race Against Time: TikTok's U.S. Deal Deadline Looms

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

B.C. tech sector awaits talent shift under Trump 2.0

Stringent U.S. immigration in the long-term could attract tech workers to Vancouver, but barriers like affordability are hindering short-term attraction

Vancouver Is Awesome by Vancouver Is Awesome

Tariffs, Tech, and Trade: Trump's iPhone Manufacturing Challenge

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Musk's Bold Mars Mission: Uncrewed Starship Aiming for 2026

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

U.S. expansion ahead for B.C.'s Moment Energy

Trade ware brought on by Donald Trump and tariffs not stopping Vancouver company that builds large power banks with used EV batteries

Vancouver Is Awesome by Vancouver Is Awesome

SpaceX Feud and Lunar Missions Shake Up Global Space Race

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.

Devdiscourse by Devdiscourse

Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms

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…

The Verge by Justine Calma

Elon Musk’s New Business Model For ExTwitter: Give Us Money Or We Sue

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

USDOT wants more self-driving cars without pedals or steering wheels

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…

The Verge by Andrew J. Hawkins

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

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.…

Theregister.com by Liam Proven

The Download: gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under Trump

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 billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have sl…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

The AI Industry Is Ready to Get Rich off Trump’s Defense Department

“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…

The New Republic by Edith Olmsted

Links 6/15/2025

Our strategic daily links: , Time lapse travel, biofuels bust, Taiwan trouble, EU disunion, Mideast war, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Tesla Cybertruck Price Collapse Drives Beast Of A Deal

The plunge in Tesla Cybertruck prices has resulted in unprecedented deals for the high-end trim of the Tesla pickup with $10K discounts.

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Your next phone could run on Trump Mobile

Donald Trump might be planning to launch a mobile network and a Trump-branded phone. DTTM Operations LLC, the company Trump uses to manage his trademarks, has applied to use both “Trump” and “T1” for telecoms, mobile accessories, and even phones themselves. T…

The Verge by Dominic Preston

Trump Mobile is a bad deal

Trump Mobile launched this morning with a single prepaid wireless plan and the promise of nationwide coverage for $47.45 per month. For that price, you get unlimited talk and texting, international calling, plus 20GB of "high-speed" cell and hotspot data, whi…

The Verge by Jacob Kastrenakes

Trump Mobile will take on iPhone 17 in September with a made-in-US gold smartphone

The Trump Organization has launched Trump Mobile and plans to release the T1, a questionable "Made in USA" smartphone just in time to try to take on Apple's iPhone 17.Trump takes on Cook with the T1Marking ten years after the launch of President Donald Trump'…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen)

Trump to Delay TikTok Ban for Another 90 Days

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…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

Trump wants a Golden Dome missile defense shield. Is that realistic?

Since last week, Israel has been attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, along with many other targets around the country. Iran has fired hundreds of missiles in response. NPR correspondent Geoff Brumfiel has been watching all of this very closely because Israel…

NPR by Geoff Brumfiel

The Trump family's licensing

The Trump family just made a call on its next big business — Trump Mobile— a Trump-branded mobile phone service and smartphone.

Business Insider by Dan DeFrancesco

OpenAI is going big into government tech

The $200 million DoD contract is for OpenAI to develop AI tools for national security purposes, potentially placing it as a competitor to Palantir.

Business Insider by Katherine Li

Citi Raises NVIDIA Price Target, Keeps Buy Rating

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the 10 Best American Semiconductor Stocks to Buy Now. On May 29, Citi analysts raised the price target for NVIDIA ...

Yahoo Entertainment by Ali Ahmed

Trump grants TikTok yet another extension on sell-or-ban deadline

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. more…

9to5Mac by Marcus Mendes

Taiwan thumbs its nose at Beijing by blocking chip exports to SMIC and Huawei

A symbolic political move 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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

The one thing the Trump administration got very right

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 …

Vox by Marina Bolotnikova

What does it mean for an algorithm to be “fair”?

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…

MIT Technology Review by Eileen Guo

Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and texts on AT&T’s network — making it yet another MVNO in an increasing…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI

Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft's $13 billion AI investment. Over the past year, multiple reports have painted a picture…

The Verge by Tom Warren

Tesla DOGE-d Itself

The future of the struggling car company rests on Elon Musk more than ever before.

The Atlantic by Patrick George

Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time

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…

Theregister.com by Simon Sharwood

Trump Gives TikTok Yet Another Lifeline

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. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Trump extends the TikTok deadline — again

The president pushed TikTok's sale for the third time — this time to September — as the White House says Trump doesn't want the app "to go dark"

Quartz India by Shannon Carroll

Citizen Musk

The world’s richest man has reshaped the US government. Fault Lines investigates what that is costing the United States.

Al Jazeera English

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

TikTok ban enforcement delayed another 90 days to September 17

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard)

Apple won't be fined right away if it misses EU anti-steering compliance deadline

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely)

SpaceX's Starship explodes again ... while still on the ground

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.…

Theregister.com by Richard Speed

Klarna launches a US carrier, will expand to the UK and Germany soon

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. …

GSMArena.com by Vlad

A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin

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.

Wired by Joel Khalili

Inside the courthouse reshaping the future of the internet

The future of the internet will be determined in one building in Washington, DC - and for six weeks, I watched it unfold. For much of this spring, the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in downtown Washington, DC, was buzzing with lawyers, reporters, and interes…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops

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 – …

Theregister.com by Paul Kunert

China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

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…

Theregister.com by Simon Sharwood

SoftBank's Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

The new lies spreading about climate change

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…

The Verge by Justine Calma

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space

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.

Wired by Boone Ashworth

Tesla’s robotaxis are operating in a regulatory vacuum

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 Verge by Andrew J. Hawkins

Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

This is not an opinion, this is not an opinion... it's an opinion, isn't it?

Miloslavhomer.cz by Miloslav Homer

Trump Mobile drops false 'made in America' promise

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard)

Apple again tries to cut third party app fees to avoid EU fines

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen)

What Meta and Anthropic really won in court

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 …

The Verge by David Pierce

Google’s carbon emissions just went up again

Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide poll…

The Verge by Emma Roth, Justine Calma

Google’s Doppl app took off my socks

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive

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.…

Theregister.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care

WIRED loves Fairphone and everything it stands for—but people just aren’t buying its devices, and the few who have don’t need to upgrade.

Wired by Andrew Williams

Trump Claims Buyers Found for TikTok, Awaits China's Approval

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…

HYPEBEAST by info@hypebeast.com (Hypebeast)

Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs

Plus: Consumers respond to imminent Win 10 cutoff date with collective 'Meh' World War Fee Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump's tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on "big-ticket" items,…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught

The silly mistakes to the flagrant failures They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that. …<!--#include virtual='/data_centre/…

Theregister.com by Connor Jones

Amid Third TikTok Ban Extension, Trump Claims to Have Potential Buyer

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…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

ICE-tracking app tops App Store

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Senate Rejects 10-Year Ban on State AI Laws in Major Blow To Tech Companies

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. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Pesala Bandara

Our National Robocall Nightmare Is Getting Worse Under Donald Trump

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Best early Prime Day deals on SSDs and storage

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—even though Amazon Prime Day doesn’t officially begin until next week, you can already score solid di…

PCWorld by Alaina Yee

Best early Prime Day 2025 deals on security cameras and video doorbells

Amazon Prime Day 2025 is happening next week, but we’ve already spotted some fantastic deals on the hottest home security cameras, video doorbells, and floodlight cameras. While the semi-annual sales doesn’t officially start until July 8 and concludes Ju…

PCWorld by Michael Brown

The Verge’s summer ‘in’ and ‘out’ list

Here at this website, my colleagues and I follow our beats closely, from wearable tech and laptops to influencer culture and federal policy. Last year, I asked a bunch of staff at The Verge to pretend to be trend forecasters for a lighthearted collection of w…

The Verge by Mia Sato

Scientists Warn US Will Lose a Generation of Talent

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

US budget bill passes without controversial block on states regulating AI

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Musk's antics and distractions are backfiring as Tesla's car business stalls

Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales Comment Tesla reported its vehicle delivery and production numbers for Q2 2025 this week, and while the figures weren't quite as low in absolute terms as Q1, they still mark a wor…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Parrot in the Machine

The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

The New York Review of Books by James Gleick

Tim Cook isn't going to get fired, and Steve Jobs isn't rolling over in his grave

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher)

TikTok’s Escape Plan May Be a Brand New App

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.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Stalkerware firm gets scooped by SQL-slinging security snoop

Also, Swiss ransomware posture looks like its cheese, the CVE Program wants YOU, more sus checks and more Infosec In Brief A security researcher looking at samples of stalkerware discovered an SQL vulnerability that allowed him to steal a database of 62,000 u…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Trump Announces Possible Buyer for TikTok

US President Donald Trump said that he had found a potential buyer for the Chinese-owned social network. Bloomberg mentioned that Trump picked an investor consortium that was interested in buying out TikTok. The consortium includes Blackstone, Andreessen Horo…

iLounge by Samantha Wiley

xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’

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 Verge by Hayden Field

Everyone Is Yelling at Apple

Climate activists and Trump advisors are on the same page on one thing: they hate Apple.

Gizmodo.com by AJ Dellinger

US TikTok users will get their own American-owned version of the app

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Trump trade admin calls Apple's China ties a 'Silicon Valley soap opera'

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…

AppleInsider by news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely)

TikTok Reportedly Developing US Version Prior to Sale

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'…

HYPEBEAST by info@hypebeast.com (Hypebeast)

TikTok Is Reportedly Making a US-Specific Version of Its App

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…

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Trump Administration Reignites Criticism of Apple's China Dependence

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…

MacRumors by Hartley Charlton

The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application

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…

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era

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…

MIT Technology Review by Grace Huckins

Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown

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…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Extreme Heat Endangers AI Data Centers

A new analysis warns that AI facilities could be forced to stop operating because of water shortages and blackouts

Politicopro.com by Sara Schonhardt, E&E News

This Legion Go S can run SteamOS, and today it’s just $500

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 …

PCWorld by Michael Crider

Philips Hue lights are up to 42% off for Prime Day

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…

PCWorld by Ben Patterson

Best Prime Day SSD deals: Big sales on fast storage

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…

PCWorld by Alaina Yee

Best Prime Day monitor deals: OLED, home office, and more

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…

PCWorld by Michael Crider

The Download: cybersecurity’s shaky alert system, and mobile IVF

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

This Week In Techdirt History: July 6th – 12th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

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…

The Verge by Richard Lawler

The CEO of Nvidia Admits What Everybody Is Afraid of About AI

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.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Sexting With Gemini

Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

The Atlantic by Lila Shroff

Apple announces $500 million US investment focused on rare earth magnets

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…

9to5Mac by Chance Miller

Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval

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.…

Theregister.com by Simon Sharwood

Chinese Firms Rush For Nvidia Chips As US Prepares To Lift Ban

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Chinese-made iPhones could be banned in US over theft of trade secrets

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

What Big Tech got out of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

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…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

TSMC US chip production may soon only be three years behind Taiwan

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

Fascism For First Time Founders

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

The Download: three-person babies, and tracking “AI readiness” in the US

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…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

Trump Hopes to Kill ‘Woke’ AI Models

President Trump is working on an executive order that targets so-called "woke" artificial intelligence (AI) models. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Unleashing AI: Trump’s Vision For American Tech Dominance

Trump to unveil AI Action Plan prioritizing innovation, infrastructure, and light regulation to boost U.S. global AI leadership and economic competitiveness.

Forbes by Paulo Carvão, Contributor, Paulo Carvão, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulocarvao/

Skeptical Intelligence Is Crucial In The Age Of AI

Skeptical Intelligence has never been more important to filter and improve the contribution that AI can deliver to our live and businesses.

Forbes by Ted Ladd, Contributor, Ted Ladd, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedladd/

This Week In Techdirt History: July 13th – 19th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Solid-State Batteries Still Face Hurdles But The Prize Is Huge For EVs

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.

Forbes by Neil Winton, Senior Contributor, Neil Winton, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/

Sam Altman steps into political power vacuum after Musk breaks with Trump

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,…

TechSpot by Skye Jacobs

Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines

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…

The Verge by Jess Weatherbed

Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

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…

The Verge by Jon Fortt

UK Backing Down on Apple Encryption Backdoor After Pressure From US

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

UK will back down over its demands on Apple for an encryption backdoor

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

Apple's iPhone production in India soars as sales increase

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

BOE's new fight with Samsung Display could affect the iPhone Fold

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

Trump Shares AI Video of Obama Getting Arrested

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. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

Tesla Isn’t a Car Company Anymore

As its car business falters, Elon Musk is betting the company's future on a high-risk pivot from manufacturing to an AI-driven, autonomous dream.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT

My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.

Scientific American by Tamlyn Hunt

One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses

AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior ai-pocalypse If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from n…

Theregister.com by Danny Bradbury

Trump is bringing back the AI law moratorium

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…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in a decade

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…

The Verge by Andrew J. Hawkins

US AI Action Plan

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.

Ai.gov

The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again

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…

The Verge by Adi Robertson

We are not ready for better deepfakes

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…

The Verge by Alex Heath

Supersonic Flight May Finally Return to US Skies

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

Hackaday by Tom Nardi

★ ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive

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.

Daringfireball.net by John Gruber

T-Mobile the fastest mobile network; AT&T best for broadband

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

White House bans 'woke' AI, but LLMs don't know the truth

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.…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Tesla bets on bot smoke screen as political and market realities bite

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.…

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

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 Verge by Lauren Feiner, Justine Calma, Hayden Field, Adi Robertson

I've Had It with Microsoft

The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending

Disconnect.blog by Paris Marx

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

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…

Theregister.com by Paul Kunert

The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trump’s AI Action Plan

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

Why AI is causing summer electricity bills to soar

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.

Fox News by Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report

The All-New Tesla Model Coming Soon Is Not What You Think

Musk uttered some cryptic words recently when he said the new more affordable Tesla EV is 'just a Model Y.' What does that mean?

Forbes by Peter Lyon, Contributor, Peter Lyon, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 26)

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 26) appeared first on SingularityHub.

Singularity Hub by SingularityHub Staff

Apple Manufacturing Academy opening in Detroit to support US businesses

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Canalys: India is now the leading smartphone exporter to the US

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…

GSMArena.com by Michail

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too

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…

The Verge by Tom Warren

'Netflix For AI' CEO Hyping Animated Slop Admits 'Maybe Nobody Wants This'

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…

Kotaku by Ethan Gach

Apple and others back government plan to digitize healthcare

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…

AppleInsider by Amber Neely

Only the base iPhone 17 may escape a $50 price hike

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

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…

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

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…

MIT Technology Review by The Editors

Most US iPhones are now made in India as Apple responds to tariffs

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

The surprisingly sound financial advice I got from a chatbot

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…

Vox by Adam Clark Estes

Fake AI images are flooding the Internet. Here’s how to recognize them

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…

PCWorld by Jörn-Erik Burkert, Florian Kastner

Why Nintendo didn’t raise the price of the Switch 2 (yet)

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…

The Verge by Andrew Webster

US fears iPhone supplier BOE is a Chinese military company

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance

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…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

A Banker’s Guide To Trump’s Digital Finance Innovation Agenda

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.

Forbes by Ron Shevlin, Senior Contributor, Ron Shevlin, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/

US iPhones: ‘Made in India’, built in China

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. more…

9to5Mac by Zac Hall

Politico’s Rushed Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Continues To Go Terribly

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

xAI’s Grok AI Lets Users Create ‘Spicy’ NSFW Images and Videos

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 …

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable

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 …

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

Trump, Apple To Announce New $100 Billion Commitment To Manufacturing in US

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Tim Cook just got what he wanted

Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with a special piece of Apple-made glass. Trump gave the tech giant something much better.

Business Insider by Brent D. Griffiths

The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.

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.

The New Yorker by Kyle Chayka

Trump says Apple will invest a further $100B in US production

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Tim Cook will be at the White House for US investment announcement

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

White House: Apple set to announce a major investment

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

Apple expected to announce another $100B U.S. manufacturing investment

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Apple to Invest Another $100 Billion In the US to Sidestep Massive Tariffs

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…

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Trump demands CEO of Intel resign over ties to China

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…

The Verge by Jess Weatherbed

Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News

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…

The Verge by Jess Weatherbed

Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more

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…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Cybertruck Leads Tesla’s Used-Car Collapse

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.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom

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.

Forbes by Martina Di Licosa, Contributor, Martina Di Licosa, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/

Apple’s Bold Decision Over iPhone 17 Pro Price

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.

Forbes by Ewan Spence, Senior Contributor, Ewan Spence, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/

US allowed Nvidia chip sales after Trump-Huang meeting

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...

Biztoc.com by breakingthenews.net

iPhone 17 Models 'Likely' to Have Higher Prices, Another Analyst Says

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…

MacRumors by Joe Rossignol

Crime blotter: Woman charged with two Apple Store thefts

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…

AppleInsider by Stephen Silver

Nvidia Stands To Grow Taller In The Tech World

After earnings indicators for both Microsoft and Meta, many are bullish on Nvidia due to its status as a GPU vendor.

Forbes by John Werner, Contributor, John Werner, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/

US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Nvidia’s Six-Word Response to China

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.

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips

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…

Gizmodo.com by Luc Olinga

Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

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.

The New Yorker by John Cassidy

Intel CEO turns Trump around, but his job still hangs in the balance

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…

9to5Mac by Marcus Mendes

Former Intel CEO Barrett says customers should bail out Intel

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…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Will the iPhone 17 Cost More? All the Rumors About a Price Increase

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…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

China Urges Firms To Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Resumes Sales

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

The White House could end UK's decade-long fight to bust encryption

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…

Theregister.com by Connor Jones

Move over, ChatGPT: Perplexity bids $34.5 billion for Google Chrome

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 …

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets

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 Verge by Adi Robertson

iPhone 17 Pro price rise to be masked by increased storage

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 …

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

Musk is wrong and has only influence on his side in a childish App Store spat

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…

AppleInsider by William Gallagher

US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Download: Trump’s golden dome, and fueling AI with nuclear power

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…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

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 …

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

"We don't install secret tracking devices in our products," — NVIDIA responds to a new report suggesting US officials are adding trackers to AI chip shipments

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 Central by c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt

The U.S. government may take a stake in Intel

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…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

US Government May Buy a Stake in Intel

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…

MacRumors by Hartley Charlton

Trump Admin Considering Buying a Stake In Floundering Intel

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. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Jeremy Gray

Vintage photos show how the military has evolved

From AI-assisted drones to computerized missiles, military technology has advanced greatly from the days of sword-fighting.

Business Insider by Shelby Slauer,Kristine Villarroel

This Week In Techdirt History: August 10th – 16th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

The One Question We Need to Ask to Save Humanity

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.

Psychology Today by Mike Brooks Ph.D.

Intel Stock's Biggest Ally: Washington?

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

Forbes by Trefis Team, Contributor, Trefis Team, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/people/trefis/

Bitcoin Mining Gets A Major Power Boost. Here’s What Comes Next

Block unveiled Proto Rig and Proto Fleet, aiming to improve bitcoin mining efficiency, extend hardware life, and expand industry competition.

Forbes by Becca Bratcher, Contributor, Becca Bratcher, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/beccabratcher/

The Rise of Crypto-Based Wrench Attacks

Wealthy crypto holders are being targeted for their digital funds with IRL violence.

Slate Magazine by Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers

Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI

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…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Links 8/17/2025

Our strategic daily links: Avalanche skiing, old black hole, sweaty Hong Kong, Chinese robots, electrifying Africa, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretch…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Trump 300% chip tariff shakes tech industry, Intel may find relief

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.

Phandroid - News for Android by Tyler Lee

How the MAGA goon squad became tech lobbyists

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…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Apple's iPhone 17 Manufacturing Expands Across Five Indian Plants

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…

MacRumors by Tim Hardwick

Apple is finally hitting a long-held goal to reduce its dependence on China

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

Trump Confirms US Is Seeking 10% Stake In Intel

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

NVIDIA builds a weaker AI chip for China — but will it pass the policy test?

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 Central by c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt

Britain Drops Demand to Access Apple User Data

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. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

The Trump phone changes its appearance ahead of launch

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…

GSMArena.com by Vlad

Trump says the US is taking a 10 percent stake in Intel

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says

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 …

Slashdot.org by msmash

4chan Refuses To Pay UK Online Safety Act Fines

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act. According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Trump confirms US government’s 10% stake in Intel, stock climbs

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. more…

9to5Mac by Marcus Mendes

I downsized my PC hardware stash and learned 4 harsh truths about myself

Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the hot topics on our YouTube show or startling news from across the web? You’re in the right place. Want this newsletter to come directly to y…

PCWorld by Alaina Yee

Intel's New Funding Came From Already-Awarded Grants. So What Happens Next?

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…

Slashdot.org by EditorDavid

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

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.…

Theregister.com by Iain Thomson

It’s official: The U.S. owns 9.9 percent of 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…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Killing the Moonlight

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 …

The New York Review of Books by Alexander Stille

Links 8/24/2025

Our strategic daily links: Music box, Waymo in NYC, Chinese trains, Africa map, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, scams, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Adobe Removed from Daniel Ives’ AI 30

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...

Yahoo Entertainment by Rameen Kasana

Intel Warns US Equity Stake Could Trigger 'Adverse Reactions'

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

AI super PACs, the hottest investment in tech

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…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

4Chan and Kiwi Farms file joint lawsuit against the UK

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…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

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 …

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

UK Still Demanding Global Access to iCloud User Data, Filings Suggest

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…

MacRumors by Tim Hardwick

UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers' Data, Court Filing Suggests

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]…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away

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…

Theregister.com by Rupert Goodwins

Apple Says App Store Changes Go Too Far in New Epic Games Appeal Filing

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…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

China Blocks Import Of Nvidia H20s

China halts Nvidia H20 purchases amid security reviews, fueling production suspensions and escalating US-China chip tensions.

Forbes by John Werner, Contributor, John Werner, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/

Parents losing trust in AI as schools ramp up usage...

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…

The Hill by Lexi Lonas Cochran

Links 8/31/2025

Our strategic daily links: Kite surfing, marching baboons, factory farming, Chinese chips, India tariffs, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Missing In AI Action: Tax Risk For Investors In Intellectual Property

As AI innovation continues to grow, policies are shifting to promote development domestically, but investors often miss optimally-timed tax planning

Forbes by 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/

Broadcom Plays Defense At VMware Explore 2025

Broadcom's VMware pricing strategy drives 25% revenue growth but sparks customer exodus to Nutanix and competitors. Analysis of market impact.

Forbes by Steve McDowell, Contributor, Steve McDowell, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/

Tesla’s new ‘Master Plan’ sounds like AI slop

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 Verge by Andrew J. Hawkins

Apple CEO Tim Cook Invited Back to White House for Tech Event

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…

MacRumors by Hartley Charlton

Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner

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 …

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

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…

The Verge by Alex Heath

Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable

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.…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Nvidia Is Not Happy With the Gain AI Act, Says As Much

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.

Gizmodo.com by Riley Gutiérrez McDermid

Links 9/7/2025

Our strategic daily links: , Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle

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 …

The Verge by Elissa Welle

You’re paying too much for your phone

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…

Vox by Adam Clark Estes

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

The US and China might finally have a TikTok deal

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

TikTok Deal 'Framework' Reached With China

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

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?

New Scientist by Matthew Sparkes

Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The China-US deal for TikTok could take another month to work out

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

So… is there a TikTok deal or not?

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,…

The Verge by Adi Robertson

Meta’s quest to own your face

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…

The Verge by David Pierce

This Week In Techdirt History: September 14th – 20th

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 …

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Fox Corp. In Talks To Join TikTok Investor Group

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…

Deadline by Jillg366

Links 9/21/2025

Our strategic daily links: New gymnastic moves, Project Xanadu, COVID shots, drug cartels, green giant China, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Microsoft’s AI CEO on the future of the browser

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…

The Verge by Tom Warren

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump

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…

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

America’s Zombie Democracy

Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.

The Atlantic by George Packer

Intel and Apple hold investment talks, no deal in sight

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. more…

9to5Mac by Marcus Mendes

PC memory costs to climb as fabs chase filthy lucre in servers and HBM

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.…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Trump advances TikTok deal with new executive order

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.

NPR by John Ruwitch

Intel Approaches Apple For Potential Investment Amid Struggles

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 …

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway

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…

MIT Technology Review by Casey Crownhart

The Download: shoplifter-chasing drones, and Trump’s TikTok deal

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

This Week In Techdirt History: September 21st – 27th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Excessive Antitrust Threatens American AI Leadership

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.

Forbes by Alden Abbott, Contributor, Alden Abbott, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/aldenabbott/

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

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.

Forbes by Emily Baker-White, Forbes Staff, Emily Baker-White, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white-1/

Have We Reached Peak AI Bubble?

NVIDIA has announced a $100 billion investment in OpenAI to build out data centers that use its chips.

Slate Magazine by Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world

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 Verge by Terrence O’Brien

Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing

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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

10 Sunday Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Links 9/28/2025

Our strategic daily links: Drifting cars, black hole collisions, bigger hailstones, Venezuela trouble, China?, Europe disrupted, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched exc…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

The Trump phone is late

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…

The Verge by Dominic Preston

The US may be heading toward a drone-filled future

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…

MIT Technology Review by James O'Donnell

UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

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…

MacRumors by Hartley Charlton

10 Thursday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

How the AI Bubble Will Pop

The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.

Derekthompson.org by Derek Thompson

UK Issues Another Demand to Apple to Access Users’ Data

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…

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

Algorithm Nation

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.

The New York Review of Books by Jacob Weisberg

Apple Removes ICE Tracking App After Trump DOJ Pressure

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 …

Deadline by Ted Johnson

Beats Powerbeats Fit Earbuds Review: Winged Migration

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?

CNET by David Carnoy

Links 10/4/2025

Our bubbly daily links: herring farts, Antartic ice loss, Trump declares war, rupee at new low, Hamaspartial acceptance of peace plan, Canada debt, EU manufacturing shinks, Trump coin, farmer tariff bailout, TikTok to heart Israell, AI power shortage, moar Ch…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

10 Sunday Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Links 10/5/2025

Our strategic daily links: Amazing archery, peak social media?, target Venezuela, China developments, Euorpean disunion, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and w…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Drone delivery is finally having its moment

Drone delivery is gaining momentum with new pilot programs from Chipotle and GoTo Foods, boosted by recent regulatory changes.

Business Insider by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert

10 Monday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

OpenAI may gain 10% of AMD and gamers won’t like it

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…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Best October Prime Day monitor deals: Save big on OLED and more

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…

PCWorld by Michael Crider

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

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…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

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.

The Intercept by Gavin Feek

Links 10/12/2025

Our strategic daily links: gymnastic dance, savants, coal-powered datacenters, Chinese drone show, UK Digital IDs, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Eurofighters To Stealth Jets: Turkey’s Air Force Is At A Crossroads

Entering the 2030s, the development of the Kaan and a parallel acquisition of F-35s, if possible, are crucial for modernizing Turkey’s air force.

Forbes by Paul Iddon, Senior Contributor, Paul Iddon, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/

AI Is Too Big to Fail

AI spending looks like a bubble, but political capture and energy realities make backing down impossible.

Sibylline.dev

China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions

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…

Theregister.com by Joe Fay

The Download: planet hunting, and India’s e-scooters

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

Study: The World’s Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab

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.…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

Against The New Feudalism Of Algorithms And Oligarchs

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…

Techdirt by Mike Brock

Asus’ latest gaming NUC mini PC is powered by a Ryzen X3D chip

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…

PCWorld by Michael Crider

iPhone Air sells out almost instantly in China

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 …

9to5Mac by Chance Miller

10 Friday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Steve Jobs to Be Honored on 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin

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 …

Osxdaily.com by Jamie Cuevas

TikTok Users Warned As ‘VIP Upgrade’ Attack Strikes

Experts warn TikTok users not to pay for a VIP Membership Upgrade as hackers strike. Here’s what you need to know about the latest scam.

Forbes by Davey Winder, Senior Contributor, Davey Winder, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Links 10/19/2025

Our strategic daily links: rhythmic gymnastics, youth mortality, target Venezuela, Chinese trucks, European draft?, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Nvidia CEO Says Company Went from 95% to 0 Market Share in China

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Nvidia still needs Taiwan even as TSMC ramps Blackwell production in Arizona

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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

The Download: a promising retina implant, and how climate change affects flowers

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…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

How Apple’s walled garden protects ICE

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…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

The Karpathy Interview, 6 Months After AI 2027

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…

Futuresearch.ai by FutureSearch

AI wins Imitation Game: Readers prefer Fanfic written by ChatGPT

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…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay

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 …

The Verge by Nilay Patel

More Than 1,100 Public Figures Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

NASA Opens SpaceX's Moon Lander Contract To Rivals Over Starship Delays

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

How you’re paying for big tech’s AI speculation

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…

Vox by Cameron Peters, Umair Irfan

Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla’s ‘robot army’

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…

The Verge by Andrew J. Hawkins

The Download: carbon removal’s future, and measuring pain using an app

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…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media

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.

Jacobin.com

Drones could replace large US Army units in Europe...

Drones could replace large US Army units in Europe... (First column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz within 30 minutes... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron

Military Times by Michael Peck

The FCC just gave itself the power to make a DJI drone ban stick

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…

The Verge by Sean Hollister

Want to opt out of AI? State labeling laws might help

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.

NPR by Martin Kaste

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself

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…

Thedissident.news by Alejandra Caraballo

Nvidia Becomes First $5 Trillion Company as AI Demand Surges

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…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

A deepfake video of Nvidia’s CEO sent thousands of viewers to a crypto scam

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…

PCWorld by Michael Crider

Trump FCC Votes To Make It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia

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.

The Intercept by Sam Biddle

How preppers plan to save us if the whole internet collapses

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

New Scientist by Matthew Sparkes

Corporate Profits Surge as Companies Cut Nearly 1 Million Jobs

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump

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.…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

US Senators and Congress Members Love This AI Stock

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 ...

Yahoo Entertainment by Fahad Saleem

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

All the industries OpenAI is trying to disrupt

Sam Altman is increasingly leading OpenAI into spaces beyond AI research, disrupting industries like search, social media, healthcare, and robotics.

Business Insider by Brent D. Griffiths

Three most important factors in enterprise IT: control, control, control

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…

Theregister.com by Rupert Goodwins

Google unveils $6.4 bn investment in Germany

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...

Yahoo Entertainment by Clement Kasser with Sam Reeves in Frankfurt

Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

How the Web Was Lost

The Internet was not meant to suck.

The New York Review of Books by James Gleick

Disney Is Getting In on AI Slop

CEO Bob Iger says that Disney+ is working towards platforming AI-driven, user-made content.

Gizmodo.com by James Whitbrook

Google pitches EU on adtech fixes to dodge breakup after €2.95B slap

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 …

Theregister.com by Richard Speed

NVIDIA (NVDA) Has The AI Orders, Says Jim Cramer

We recently published 11 Stocks on Jim Cramer’s Radar. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. NVIDIA...

Yahoo Entertainment by Ramish Cheema

Senator Warren presses Trump admin on potential AI bailout plans

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 …

The Verge by Emma Roth

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws

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…

The Verge by Robert Hart, Dominic Preston

Cypherpunks Hall of Fame

Cypherpunks Hall of Fame. Contribute to cypherpunkshall/cypherpunkshall.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

Github.com by cypherpunkshall

Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis

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."…

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

Senators propose to let users sue tech giants for harmful algos

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.…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

MAGA is once again divided over AI

Trump is re-upping efforts to ban states from regulating AI, and it's drawing pushback from members of his own party.

Business Insider by Bryan Metzger

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Download: what’s next for electricity, and living in the conspiracy age

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 things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

Experts: Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals

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. …

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

The new silicon valley (literally)

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 Verge by Justine Calma

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same

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. …

Crazystupidtech.com

This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Dubai Air Show Highlights Importance Of The Mid-East

Growing importance of Dubai Air Show to commercial and military aerospace

Forbes by Jerrold Lundquist, Contributor, Jerrold Lundquist, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerroldlundquist/

NATO Taps Google For Air-Gapped Sovereign Cloud

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Where Is the Trump Phone?

Is it located in the same place as the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare?

Gizmodo.com by Lucas Ropek

Steam Machine Price: Valve May Have Just Given The Best Clue Yet

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…

GameSpot by Eddie Makuch

What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab

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 …

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

The Will Stancil Show Could Be the Future

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.

The Atlantic by Tyler Austin Harper

Black Friday 2025 could be your last chance for cheap PC deals, experts warn

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. …

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

The Alpha Is Not LLM Monitoring via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

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.

Search Engine Journal by Kevin Indig

Links 11/27/2025

Our stuffed daily links, including Thanksgving economics, the AI bailout begins, UK budget, and Europe no longer matters.

Nakedcapitalism.com by Conor Gallagher

DJI ban: how the world’s biggest dronemaker is getting shoved out of 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…

The Verge by Sean Hollister

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips Again in a New Way

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…

MacRumors by Joe Rossignol

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

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.

Dub.uu.nl

AI Is Keeping Coal on Life Support

The technology of the future that no one seems to want, brought to you by the energy of the past.

Gizmodo.com by Mike Pearl

Links 11/30/2025

Our strategic daily links: subway drumming, robot trek, long COVID, Tehran pollution, China space program, EU squabbles, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, an…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Apple turns to Intel instead of Samsung for its low-end MacBook chips

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 …

SamMobile by Asif Iqbal Shaik

Intel makes a tiny comeback in PC graphics cards at 1 percent

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…

PCWorld by Mark Hachman

Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

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…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

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…

Theregister.com by Richard Speed

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

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’…

MIT Technology Review by Michelle Kim

2025.49: Conflicts, Consternation, and Code Red

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.

Stratechery.com by Ben Thompson

Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal

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…

Mooreslawisdead.com by Moore's Law Is Dead

CoreWeave (CRWV) Soars 20.8% on New AI Investment

We recently published 10 Stocks Sparking Massive Fortunes. CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) is one of the best performers on Friday. CoreWeave saw its share...

Yahoo Entertainment by Angelica Ballesteros

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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 …

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Links 12/7/2025

Our strategic daily links: giant crystals, the time on Mars, climate disasters, China train, Modi meets Putin, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, scams, and wret…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

Why the Bay Area is key to the new U.S. push to win the international AI race

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…

Biztoc.com by siliconvalley.com

Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money

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 Verge by Nilay Patel

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US

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…

Theregister.com by Paul Kunert

Disney’s AI Slop Era Is Here

The studio has announced a landmark deal and $1 billion investment with OpenAI to bring hundreds of Disney characters to its generative AI platforms.

Gizmodo.com by James Whitbrook

Our Corrupt Congress Just Quietly Killed Military Right To Repair Reforms

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

We’re still talking about the Trump phone

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…

The Verge by Verge Staff

10 Friday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Links 12/13/2025

Our piebald daily links: Battle of the Atlantic, PCP burnout, hidden rainfall? anti Machado protests, UK brain drain, moar Russian frozen assets, US $1 trillion military spend, VPNs rule, Fed evades Trump, GOP Miami freakout, OpenAI whistleblower, violence v.…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

Links 12/14/2025

Our strategic daily links: Mechanical bird, drunken raccoon, pirates of the Caribbean, self-parking car, Africa's resources, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched excess

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

The Download: introducing the AI Hype Correction package

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…

MIT Technology Review by Rhiannon Williams

How, and why, I invented OnlyFans. In 2004

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".

Themosthandsomemanintheworld.com by Samuel Agboøla

The 8 worst technology flops of 2025

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…

MIT Technology Review by Antonio Regalado

TikTok Owner Signs Deal To Avoid US Ban

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

This Week In Techdirt History: December 14th – 20th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Links 12/21/2025

Our strategic daily links: egg decorating, roving black hole, Venezuelan oil, Chinese robots, India's economy, Gaza horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched ex…

Nakedcapitalism.com by Haig Hovaness

As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese

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 Entertainment by Thomas Urbain with Luna Lin in Beijing

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China

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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

My 18 favorite Android apps of 2025

I used plenty of apps this year, but which were the best of the best? These are my favorite Android apps from 2025.

Android Authority by Andy Walker

The 10 Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2025

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.

Kotaku by Zack Zwiezen

This Week In Techdirt History: December 21st – 27th

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…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Time to ditch normal internet? How to know if mobile broadband is enough

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…

PCWorld by Anders Lundberg

2025 Crookie Award For Clusterf**k Of The Year: DOGE

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…

Crooksandliars.com by Heather

Splinter: What Will It Take for You to Quit X?

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…

Jezebel by Jacob Weindling

AI’s Imperial Agenda

“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.

The Intercept by The Intercept Briefing

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

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 …

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech

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 …

Theregister.com by Jessica Lyons

Microsoft scrambles to quell fury around its new AI data centers

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…

The Verge by Justine Calma

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services

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 …

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

Microsoft is closing its employee library and cutting back on subscriptions

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…

The Verge by Tom Warren

Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks

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…

NL Times

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

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.

404media.co by Joseph Cox

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

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 …

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

10 Friday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship

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…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea

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.…<…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

What techies really talked about at Davos

Tech execs and founders dished on AI bubble fears, talent war intensity, and dealmaking density at the Swiss resort.

Business Insider by Ben Bergman,Alistair Barr

The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.

The Atlantic by Walter Russell Mead

TikTok blames its US problems on a power outage

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 …

The Verge by Emma Roth

TikTok broke in its first weekend with US ownership

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…

The Verge by Dominic Preston

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it

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…

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

Why chatbots are starting to check your age

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…

MIT Technology Review by James O'Donnell

All the ways TikTok is broken: here’s what’s real and what’s not

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…

The Verge by Richard Lawler

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

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.…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Microsoft plans more server farms, despite water worries

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, widening carbon footprint

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU‑native

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…

Theregister.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Technocracy 2.0

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…

Brooklynrail.org by https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/anton-cebalo/

When the Chips Are Down

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 New York Review of Books by Julian Gewirtz

MAGA Zealots Are Waging War On Affordable Broadband

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’…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers

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…

Osnews.com by Thom Holwerda

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

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…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite

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…

Theregister.com by Lindsay Clark

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

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…

MIT Technology Review by Michelle Kim

10 Wednesday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace

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.

Bloodinthemachine.com by Brian Merchant

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

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 …

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Aurora Innovation (AUR) Reports Q4 Loss

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...

Yahoo Entertainment by Jabran Kundi

Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Open Letter To Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

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…

Techdirt by Mario Trujillo

Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations

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, …

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

Apple shares more details, photos, and video of US Mac mini plant

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

How to use AI for your taxes — and how not to use it

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…

Vox by Adam Clark Estes

Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras

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…

Slashdot.org by msmash

Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

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.…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

New Mexico Dems Pass An Affordable Broadband Law In 25 Days

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

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 …

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

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…

Theregister.com by Simon Sharwood

A measles surge, AI in warfare and accelerated global warming

Why measles cases are rising in the U.S., how artificial intelligence is shaping warfare, and what accelerated global warming means for the world

Scientific American by Kendra Pierre-Louis, Sushmita Pathak, Joseph Howlett, Alex Sugiura

Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states

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…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

Docs Expose CBP’s Use Of Ad Data To Track People’s Movements

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…

Techdirt by Tim Cushing

Teens sue Elon Musk’s xAI over Grok’s AI-generated CSAM

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…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again

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.…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

Trump unveils national AI policy framework

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.

Fox News

Why this battery company is pivoting to AI

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…

MIT Technology Review by Casey Crownhart

Melania Trump Welcomes Humanoid Robot At White House Summit

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Chinese universities performing military research acquired Super Micro servers with sanctioned Nvidia AI chips — public documents reveal purchases were completed in 2025 and 2026 despite US export controls

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.

Tom's Hardware UK by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) , Jowi Morales

Federal Judge: Supply Chain Risk Designation of Anthropic Is ‘Orwellian’

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…

Annielytics.com by Annie Cushing

Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything

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. [audience applauds]

Bsky.app by John Gruber

It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA

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…

The Verge by Robert Hart

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

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…

Theregister.com by Liam Proven

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

Anthropic is launching a new AI model for cybersecurity

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 Verge by Hayden Field

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

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…

Theregister.com by Tobias Mann

10 Friday AM Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy

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…

Techdirt by Andy Jung

Hut 8 (HUT) Soars 37.3% on AI Boost

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...

Yahoo Entertainment by Angelica Ballesteros

HIVE Digital (HIVE) Betting Big on AI Data Centers

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)...

Yahoo Entertainment by Muhammad Ali Khalid

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine under severe threat by publisher blocks

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…

9to5Mac by Ben Lovejoy

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their…

Theregister.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

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…

The Verge by David Pierce

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

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…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

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…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

★ Another Day Has Come

If you agree that Apple itself was Jobs’s greatest product, Cook really is a product person after all.

Daringfireball.net by John Gruber

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The Download: introducing the Nature issue

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Eric Trump-backed robot startup lands $24M Pentagon deal...

Eric Trump-backed robot startup lands $24M Pentagon deal... (Second column, 2nd story, link) Related stories:U.S. sailor en route to Strait of Hormuz sidelined by monkey attack... New Era and New Leadership: The Generals Running Iran...…

Fox Business by Madison Colombo

The AI-designed car is taking shape

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…

The Verge by Tim Stevens

That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

Larry’s risky business

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…

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

EU Green Hydrogen Scheme Embraces High-Tech Solar Foods

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. The post EU Green Hydrogen Scheme Embraces High-Tech Solar Foods appea…

CleanTechnica by Tina Casey

AI Can’t Solve America’s Diagnosis Crisis

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.

New York Magazine by Sarah Jones

Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age

A new generation of satellite startups in San Francisco is racing to capitalize on recent technological breakthroughs in space-based data collection and communications.

Wired by Paresh Dave

The Venture-Capital Populist

How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington

The Atlantic by George Packer

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Appeals Court Kills FCC Effort To Acknowledge Racism In Broadband Deployment

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Tech Companies Fail To Kill Colorado’s ‘Right To Repair’ Law

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

Wired by Molly Taft

The border is everywhere

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…

The Verge by Gaby Del Valle

The US Is Winning the AI Race

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.

Github.io

Report: Intel is Testing Production of Some iPhone, iPad, and Mac Chips

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, …

MacRumors by Joe Rossignol

The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Apple Slashes iPhone 17 Prices in China for Annual 618 Festival

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, …

MacRumors by Tim Hardwick

Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?

USA Today reports: 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 …

Slashdot.org by EditorDavid

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

Once-speculative concerns about the technology have now become pressing matters.

The Atlantic by Matteo Wong

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

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…

The Verge by Lauren Feiner

Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports

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…

Techdirt by Riana Pfefferkorn

Trump Mobile may be leaking customer addresses

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…

The Verge by Dominic Preston

US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes

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…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

The Download: online safety’s future and climate tech’s big pivot

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Trump Mobile confirms that it exposed customer data

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…

GSMArena.com by Vlad

Jim Cramer on Astera Labs: “I Say You Hold On”

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...

Yahoo Entertainment by Syeda Seirut Javed

AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment

From SpaceX's IPO to Anthropic's massive revenue number, it looks like AI just had the day when the hype became real.

Business Insider by Zak Jason

Building A World Class Creative Tech Hub In Vancouver

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.

Forbes by David Bloom, Senior Contributor, David Bloom, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/dbloom/

27,224 people pre-ordered the Trump Phone

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…

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

“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…

Vox by Sigal Samuel

The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech

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…

Tom's Hardware UK by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) , Jowi Morales

Claude AI Makes Bullish Case for Reddit (RDDT)

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 ...

Yahoo Entertainment by Fahad Saleem

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

AT&T Sues California Regulators For Trying To Make Broadband Affordable

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…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire

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…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

The Download: AI-generated lawsuits and virtual power plants for data centers

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 …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

NASA’s X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

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 …

NASA by Jim Banke

Various & Sundry 6/6/26

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…

Scalzi.com by John Scalzi

Trump Mobile T1 Phone teardown confirms it's an HTC in disguise

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…

GSMArena.com by Vlad

To redefine progress

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…

Buzzmachine.com by Jeff Jarvis

Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

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 Verge by Hayden Field

Geoffrey Hinton

The machine-learning guru discusses how politics is undermining U.S. science

Scientific American by K. R. Callaway

Gavin Newsom

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

Scientific American by Megha Satyanarayana

Trump says Intel and Apple will produce chips domestically

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…

GSMArena.com by Ro

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off

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 …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

10 Sunday Reads

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…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

This Geothermal Startup Plans To Use Oil Tech For Green Energy

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.

Forbes by Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff, Sydney Goitia-Doran, Forbes Staff, Alex Knapp, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/ , Sydney Goitia-Doran, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/

Old EV Batteries Could Help Solve AI’s Exploding Power Problem

Can second-life EV batteries save the grid from AI? Explore how data centers are repurposing electric vehicle batteries to solve exploding power demands.

Forbes by Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor, Ken Silverstein, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

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…

The Verge by Karl Bode, Sean Gonsalves

Trump Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Migration

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 …

Internet by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash

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…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama

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…

The Verge by Hayden Field

The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

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 …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

ChatGPT’s powerful GPT-5.6 models arrive, but not for you

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…

PCWorld by Ben Patterson

Apple asks Trump to let it buy memory from a blacklisted supplier

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…

AppleInsider by Malcolm Owen

IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing

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…

Slashdot.org by EditorDavid

Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era

Kevin O'Leary, the acerbic "Shark Tank" investor, is everywhere trying to sell a skeptical American public on the idea of a data center in their town.

Business Insider by Lauren Edmonds,Madeline Berg

Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029

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…

Internet by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

Apple is considering risky alternative RAM suppliers amidst memory crunch

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…

GSMArena.com by Michail

SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions on consumer electronics instead

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.

Tom's Hardware UK by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) , Jowi Morales

Europe And China Diverge From The U.S. On The Future Of Money

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.

Forbes by Jon Helgi Egilsson, Contributor, Jon Helgi Egilsson, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonegilsson/

10 Sunday Reads

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Surveillance Tech Company Is Pitching An Unholy ALPR/Stingray Hybrid To Law Enforcement: Here’s something no one but cops and the tech firms that love cops wanted: an A…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

10 Tuesday AM Reads

My Two-for-Tuesday reads: •  Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed?: The New Yorker asks whether humanoid robots are actually ready for real work. The demos are dazzling; the deployment numbers, less so. (The New Yorker) • Why Small-Cap Stocks Are Beating …

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Corruption Showdown: Verizon, SpaceX Square Off Over Cell Phone Unlocking

Earlier this year I noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules that would have made it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acquisition and merger…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

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 worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dai…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Apple is already testing Chinese RAM, new report says

A few days ago some reports claimed Apple was considering using Chinese RAM from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC). Today, a new report claims the company is already testing DRAM chips from CXMT. But there's a twist. …

GSMArena.com by Vlad

WATCH: Humanoid robots perform surgery

For the first time, surgeons at UC San Diego have operated using humanoid robots, removing gallbladders in two procedures on pigs, a key step before any human trials.

Abcnews.com by ABC News

AI Surveillance and Social Progress

In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your offi…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

Intel (INTC) Was A Brutal Rotation, Says Jim Cramer

We recently published Jim Cramer Insisted Recent AI Chip Selloff Wasn’t A Bottom & Discussed These 17 Stocks. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is one of the s...

Yahoo Entertainment by Ramish Cheema