Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent
Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent

Silicon Valley has spent more than 25 million dollars trying to make one of its own the next governor of California. The candidate is polling at four per cent. The June 2 primary is less than four weeks away. And the most instructive thing about the ca…

There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were

Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump’s life were staged.

How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

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Trump’s Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He’s Already Rejected

As chaotic negotiations over the end of the Iran war continue, US negotiators think they have the framework for a deal in place. Now they just have to sell the president on it.

Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they’re released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform “pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research […]

Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.
Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.

Every major government now has an AI strategy. Most involve pilot programmes, task forces, and multi-year roadmaps that promise transformation without specifying a deadline. Dubai has taken a different approach. On Sunday, Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bi…

A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.

The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.
The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which soun…

Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it
Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it

Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Mod…

Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices
Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices

The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights at 3AM ET on Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to airports, with air traffic control records capturing controllers and pilots signing off to each other as its last flights […]