Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …
Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls
Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat
Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis”, calls for a “deescalation”, and says he discussed it with President Trump
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the killing …
Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses
Healthcare is going all-in on artificial intelligence, from reading patient scans to fighting insurance denials
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...
Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures — Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …
Sources: banks are preparing to launch a $38B debt sale to fund Oracle data centers, including $23.25B for a Texas data center and $14.75B for a Wisconsin site
Banks are preparing to launch a $38 billion debt offering as soon as Monday that will help fund data centers tied to Oracle Corp …
Ten major banks including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and UBS announce an early-stage project to explore issuing stablecoins pegged to G7 currencies
- Group includes US, UK, Swiss, Japanese, Canadian lenders — Banks seeking to find their way as stablecoin demand grows
Sources: investors in the TikTok US deal are expected to pay the Trump administration a multibillion-dollar fee for negotiating a deal with China
This is so weird. — https://www.wsj.com/... [image] Forums: r/technology : U.S. Government Is Expected to Get Multibillion-Dollar Fee in TikTok Deal
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled
The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform …
Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business
Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake — TikTok's U.S. business …
Apple event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is an iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation
Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about.
Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot
“Erik, you're not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran's paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent bets stablecoins will bolster demand for Treasuries, as talks with Tether and Circle help inform issuance decisions
Treasury secretary's discussions with crypto groups have helped inform issuance decisions — Treasury secretary Scott Bessent …
Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies
The billionaire has sought to maintain ties with JD Vance, a potential heir to Trump's MAGA political movement
The Nasdaq fell 1.4% on August 19, as Nvidia dropped 3.5% and Arm 5%, with AI enthusiasm cooling after a critical report from MIT and a warning from Sam Altman
Warning from OpenAI's Sam Altman and MIT paper puncture Wall Street's enthusiasm — US tech stocks sold off as warnings …
Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in “cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions”; users can still start new chats
We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.
Sources: the Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the company; INTC closed up 7.4% on August 14
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. to have the US government take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker …
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical ways to track the location of AI chips, as part of its AI Action Plan
The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior official said …
Taiwanese prosecutors say two ex-TSMC employees and a third suspect were arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary tech; investigators searched Tokyo Electron
Taiwanese prosecutors probe ‘potential trade secret leaks’ in first case since key technologies added to national security legislation