<p>Sahil Lavingia has published a diary recounting his time as a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE workforce. It&#8217;s a short read — Lavingia&#8217;s DOGE stint lasted just 55 days — but it does provide new details on the temporary government organization formed by President Trump&#8217;s executive order. Lavingia is a well-known name in Silicon Valley, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nvidia incurred a $4.5 billion charge in Q1 due to licensing requirements impacting its ability to sell its H20 AI chip to companies in China.</p>

<p>Gov. Abbott of Texas officially signed into law the online child safety bill that will require Apple and Google&#8217;s app stores to verify the age of their users and obtain approval from parents before minors download or make in-app purchases. The law will go into effect on January 1. The bill made headlines last week [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Self-driving truck startup TuSimple sent a trove of sensitive data to a Beijing-owned firm after committing to the U.S. government that it would cease such transfers under a national security agreement</p>

<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make changes to or veto a newly passed law in the state that would require the company to verify the ages of device owners, according to The Wall Street Journal. Abbott has yet to sign the bill. But Apple, alongside Google, has been working [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.</p>

<p>Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.</p>

<p>Amanda Scales, the former xAI HR exec who helped lead billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency initiative while working at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, recently returned to xAI, according to The New York Times. Scales used to work on talent acquisition at xAI. Since April, she&#8217;s worked on the talent side of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisers in Elon Musk&#8217;s inner circle, and how they got there.</p>

<p>President Donald Trump is expected to sign the Take It Down Act today, a bipartisan law that enacts stricter penalties for distributing non-consensual explicit images, including deepfakes and revenge porn. </p>

<p>Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trump administration and congressional officials are scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Alibaba that would bring Alibaba-powered AI features to iPhones sold in China, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the NYT says White House officials and members of the House Select Committee on China have asked Apple executives directly about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.</p>

<p>Epic Games is escalating its efforts to pressure Apple to allow its game Fortnite into the App Store, with a new court filing asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require that Apple “accept any compliant version of Fortnite onto the U.S. storefront of the App Store.” Epic and Apple have been engaged in a years-long [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since Donald Trump took office, more than three dozen employees, allies, and investors of Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have taken roles at federal agencies, helping direct billions in contracts to their companies. </p>

<p>South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google&#8217;s request to transfer high-precision map data on the country&#8217;s geography to its international servers. In February, Google had requested approval from the Korean National Geographic Information Institute to deploy a 1:5,000 scale map on its app in the country and to transfer [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Foxconn, a key manufacturer for Apple, has received an approval from India&#8217;s cabinet to build a new 37 billion Indian rupees ($435 million) semiconductor plant in a joint venture with the country&#8217;s IT giant HCL Group. The deal is the latest move to reduce Apple’s reliance on China and produce more components in India. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced into Congress. If passed into law, this bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes that the internet has seen in the U.S. since the Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. As it currently stands, KOSA would be able to hold social [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.</p>

<p>U.S. lawmakers introduced Wednesday the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act in a bid to revise the FAA&#8217;s 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil. The bipartisan legislation &#8212; introduced by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), Aviation Subcommittee Chair Troy Nehls (R-TX), and Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) &#8212; would allow supersonic travel, provided no audible sonic boom [&hellip;]</p>