A federal judge must narrow an order requiring LinkedIn to divulge journalists’ communications on the social media platform to the Trump administration for a leak investigation
America must stay in the lead to reap the full benefits of our technology and protect the country.
President Trump says FBI is "looking into" Huang while class action suit emerges
Bloomberg understands Nvidia’s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International, questioning whether the Trump administration played a role in detaining an executive from the Singapore-based firm who’s now at the heart of a scandal threatening Jensen Huang. Anthropic is set to kick off the formal marketing of its blockbuster initial public offering as early as Tuesday after an apparent snafu over the filing documents added a dose of last-minute drama to a nervous market. President Donald Trump said further strikes on Iran wouldn’t be necessary but the US remains “locked and loaded,” an indication that he’s winding down the conflict after Republicans’ midterm elections loss underscored its deep unpopularity. Guests: Greg Peters, PGIM Credit Co-CIO; Karen Ward, JPMorgan Asset Mgmt EMEA Chief Market Strategist; Kjerstin Braathen, DNB CEO; Ian James, Jaguar TCS Racing Team (Source: Bloomberg)
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President Trump held a White House press briefing earlier today and responded to several questions about his knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang said this weekend that he had been "unfaithful" to his wife, and the company has opened an investigation into Huang. Recent articles from The New […]
Nvidia Corp.’s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International, questioning whether the Trump administration played a role in detaining an executive from the Singapore-based firm who’s now at the heart of a scandal threatening Jensen Huang.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy comes as the company is already about to face heightened scrutiny.
Acting US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said that wild swings in jobs data makes the public lose trust in the information coming out of the department and that he is looking to 'modernize' that process. Sonderling also discussed the Trump administration's foreign worker visa policy, saying that the while the visa program is designed to target the 'best and the brightest' it shouldn't come at the expense of American workers. (Source: Bloomberg)
Asked about AI executives' warnings about their models' safety on 60 Minutes, Trump said, "I think that the risk is not nearly as real as it- as they talk, and I think the risk can be managed, and it's managed." He claimed the DOJ is managing that risk, saying, "We had a situation where somebody […]
Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they’ll lose access to search engine Parents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search. Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools and classrooms, alongside options allowing teachers and administrators to restrict their use. The company said schools should have control over whether students use AI in the classroom, but that schools that choose to block Google’s AI tools will also lose access to its search engine. Continue reading...
"There’s no doubt that whatever it’s going to be called, it won’t be called Golden Dome."
Homeland Security Investigations estimates that it has sent out more administrative subpoenas since January 2025 than it did in more than six and a half years between 2016 and mid-August 2022.
As data center protests break out across Europe, a mismatched band of campaigners is trying to block Google from building a sprawling new facility east of London.
President Donald Trump called Jensen Huang a “fine person” and said he should stay on as the chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. after the executive admitted having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. (Source: Bloomberg)
Google, Meta, and TikTok have sued California to block the enforcement of a state law meant to protect children from getting addicted to social media.
Iran threatened to attack subsea cables if US escalates military strikes again.
The architect of the Trump administration’s brutal crackdowns on immigration and dissent was already known as “the prime minister.” Now he’ll work as the chief of staff.
Following the Melania documentary movie about Melania Trump that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the First Lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th. "MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told stories, offering unprecedented insight into Melania Trump's life, including […]
A researcher found over 100,000 words and phrases in "every major language" that are blocked from autocomplete and swipe-type in iOS, Reuters reports. The researcher, Derik Kauffman, says you can still type the words on the blocklist one letter at a time. But they won't pop up as predictive text suggestions and iOS's keyboard may […]
UN conference this month seen as key moment after years of discussions on filling gap in governance of AI systems Plans to fill a gap in the global governance of autonomous weapons are in jeopardy as group of nations led by Russia and the US move to use a UN conference this month to block proposals to negotiate a legally binding set of rules. The scale of the opposition will become clear at a diplomatic retreat starting on Friday ahead of the seventh review conference on “certain conventional weapons” in Geneva due to be attended by 128 countries from 16 to 20 November. Continue reading...
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the historic blue wave that swept the midterms and delivered a rebuke to the Trump administration, Big Tech, and data centers.
Top AI companies that had cozied up to President Donald Trump over the past two years are now bracing for the fallout from Democrats’ resounding victories in the US midterm elections.
Kalshi can't avoid gambling law by claiming it doesn't offer gambling, state AG says.
Assembly Bill 1709 demands that platforms remove "psychologically exploitative features."
Democrats in Congress could impose tougher rules on crypto and investigate President Donald Trump, ushering in a tougher era for the industry.
When we last talked to James Bosworth, it seemed like an 'orange wave' was going to take over Latin America and further realign the region's interests with those of the Trump administration. But with Lula's surprise victory in Brazil and María Corina Machado's return to Venezuela, it seems like the orange wave might be cresting. Bosworth — a non-resident fellow at the Stinson Center and the author of the Latin America Risk Report newsletter — comes back on to explain how Lula pulled off his upset win over Flavio Bolsonaro, the possible impact of US troop presence in Venezuela, and why 2027 might further reshape the politics of Latin America. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft stock was up after the midterms, while stocks tied to Trump advisor Elon Musk and data centers fell on Wednesday.
From top officials like Pete Hegseth to White House aides to right-wing pundits, the race is on to find someone besides Donald Trump to blame for the Republican's catastrophic losses.
Tuesday’s sweeping wins will give House and Senate Democrats the opportunity to set an agenda for the next two years and use their committees to take on President Donald Trump.
Cruz and Trump seem to have no plans to fill FCC's empty Democratic seat.
Fairshake, the major industry super PAC, spent $46 million on ads against the Democrat, Sherrod Brown, who won.
The company’s cofounder recently convinced the Trump administration to support an initiative to gather DNA samples from endangered species.
While stocks rallied as the Democratic sweep of Congress promises to exert a significant restraint on President Donald Trump, one key corner of the market was left out.
When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump's inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation. Meta overhauled its content policy to allow calling gay people mentally ill and women property. Elon […]
While some of Donald Trump’s closest allies have remained silent, much of MAGA is blaming him for historic losses.
Democrats flip the Senate after winning the House in rebuke to President Trump
A Democratic sweep of the US Congress jolted global markets, pulling down Asian tech stocks and the dollar while boosting Treasuries as investors braced for tougher scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s policies.
State tries to obtain broadband funds despite rejecting Trump admin condition.
CrowdStrike launched an AI kill switch that the company says can stop internal agents, block relaunches and cut enterprise network access.
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s races are expected to be most broadly defined by affordability issues, there’s several topics impacting the tech industry that appear […]
Executives from Nvidia to Microsoft have been walking a linguistic tightrope since the decree, sometimes recalibrating in midsentence
Meta faces pressure to protect No Kings Instagram on election day.
The second Trump administration has created a boon for a relatively new crop of financial companies in the digital finance industry. Some traders are positioning for that to change after Tuesday’s US midterm vote.
With Democrats poised to make significant gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump supporters have been reduced to posting bizarre Star Wars fan fiction.
So far, Department of Justice-led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat.
Patti Zirhut, a lifelong Republican, has been studying her ballot for weeks. Zirhut eagerly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, but she isn't toeing the party line this year. "My ballot is all mixed up," she says. She's voting for some Republicans, some independents, and even a few Democrats. Zirhut remains […]
As companies from Amazon to JPMorgan block AI personal agents like Meta's Muse, retail experts warn that technology that removes customer friction usually wins.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX adopted President Trump's preferred "super intelligence" term on their third-quarter earnings calls.
