Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed…
Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production…
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly…
Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
The Trump administration is paying another $1.2 billion to cancel an offshore wind lease, this time to German utility RWE.…
Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that includes…
Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules
The Trump administration did not have the authority to terminate and claw back funding that had already been disbursed to…
India moves to give its instant payments network a business model
India is taking steps to reshape the business model behind its Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a widely used payments network…
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is Congress’s AI tool of choice so far in terms of money spent, according to a report from…
Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School
The Malaysian government has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric community called the Network School, according to The Wall Street…
Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward, according…