Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump
speaking out on potential downsides of AI, including risks to the safety of humanity.
Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity
and every American should be [video] Kelsey Piper / @kelseytuoc : @recurseparadox Congress can repeal the CHIPS act if they want to. (I think they shouldn't, but they could). But ‘Congress authorized ...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Joseph Gedeon / The Guar...
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... [image] @gigastacey : Keeping the cyber label program intact while destroying so many others is like burning your house down but saving your mailbox. Mailboxes are...
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography
The White House accused the Biden administration of trying to “sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published
Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working...
Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal info about millions of US residents, violating or disregarding security protocols
www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @galetstrong : Federal data is now along the lines of something you might find in The National Enquirer, not actual data. — Donald Trump's Information Warfare...
Sources: DOGE is sending termination notices to USDS staff who worked as IT experts for the US government since the Obama era; USDS has been renamed as DOGE
Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg :
Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”
It Just Had Its Best One Ever Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits New Record As Polymarket Odds Of Bitcoin Hitting $100K This Year Soar Vladimir Popescu / Watcher Guru : T...
OpenAI hires former White House official Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji as its first chief economist to research how AI will impact economic growth and job creation
Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.