DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions
There is some precedent for corporate executives to simultaneously work in the US government. When the US was at war in the early 1900s,...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings
Sweeping layoffs architected by the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency may be coming as soon as this week at the...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has seen its annual deficit...
The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here
The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his...
It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too
TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based...
RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of...
The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing
With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute...
Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media
The Chat Every week, I talk to one of MIT Technology Review’s journalists to go behind the scenes of a story they are working...
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump's imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X's Community...
Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World
Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving...
