<p>Rivian’s cost-cutting measures have gotten it a lot closer to profitability, but the company is warning that 2025 could still be a challenging year &#8212; especially because of the whorl of uncertainty caused by the new Trump administration. The company announced Thursday its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results, and along with it, shared plans [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again.  The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal that the Trump administration plans to be more friendly to crypto than the SEC was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into &#8220;censorship by tech platforms,&#8221; soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned, or otherwise censored due to their speech or affiliations. “Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson in a statement. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The UK&#8217;s competition regulator may require Google to offer users alternative search engines; change how it ranks searches; and improve data portability.</p>

<p>The U.S. government has banned WhatsApp from devices used by U.S. House of Representatives staff, saying the app poses potential security risks.</p>

<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul is directing the New York Power Authority, which owns and operates two dozen power plants — mostly dams and gas turbines — to develop the new facility. The plans are still in their infancy: NYPA, a state government entity, has yet to pick a location or a design.</p>

<p>In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin&#8217;s wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.</p>

<p>A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.</p>

<p>European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.</p>

<p>The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.</p>

<p>The Senate Finance Committee’s language would take a sledgehammer to some parts of the renewable-friendly Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others. </p>

<p>The Navy&#8217;s chief technology officer, Justin Fanelli, says he has spent the last two and a half years cutting through the red tape and shrinking the protracted procurement cycles that once made working with the military a nightmare for startups. </p>

<p>Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.</p>

<p>Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturday’s scheduled nationwide “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump and his policies.</p>

<p>Beleaguered genetic testing company 23andMe announced Friday that it has reached an agreement to sell itself to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit led by the company&#8217;s co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki.</p>

<p>New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.</p>

<p>CTOs from companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir make up this first cohort of CTOs in the Army Reserve.</p>

<p>The situation grabbed headlines after a teenage influencer, Bo Loudon, boasted on X that he flagged Khaby Lame’s immigration status to authorities.</p>

<p>Meta&#8217;s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down.</p>

<p>Wayve and Uber plan to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in the coming years. </p>