Docs: the US DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, letting agencies like CBP and ICE skip the competitive bidding process
“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir's work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote …
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP
Disney also sent a legal demand to Chinese internet company — Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in …
ByteDance says it “respects IP rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance” and it plans to “strengthen” safeguards, after Disney's legal threats
Chinese technology giant ByteDance has pledged to curb a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
Only 35 countries signed a declaration affirming “human responsibility over AI-powered weapons”, with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges
Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more
Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.
The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends si...
The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes
Top of the Morning — I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …
How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims ...
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.
The US Congressional Budget Office says it has identified a security incident; a CBO spokeswoman suggests the agency was hacked by a suspected foreign actor
The office makes economic projections for lawmakers and scores legislation for how much it would add or subtract from the national debt.
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and del...
US federal contracting records show that US ICE is planning to hire nearly 30 private analysts to monitor social media content for enforcement operation leads
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's “digital sovereignty”
Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe's ‘digital sovereignty’ Bluesky: @whodat35 . Forums: r/neoliberal and r/technology Bluesky: Lee West / @...
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …
Sources: Elon Musk tried to derail OpenAI's Abu Dhabi deal, telling G42 officials that there was no chance of Trump signing off on it unless xAI was included
his lieutenants are running DOGE still, his X feed can upend the Republican agenda, and Trump world is still waiting on promised donations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... @thefarce...
Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems”
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers … Bluesky: @wired.com , @wired.com , @emptywheel , @sbyrnes , @te...
US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble and at least five aides
The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials. — just now