<p>In 2013, Tatyana Marynich and Anastasiya Khamiankova opened the doors to Imaguru, a startup hub in Minsk, Belarus that would go on to launch some of Eastern Europe’s most prominent tech success stories. A decade later, they’ve been sentenced ‘in absentia’ to a combined 23 years in prison by Belarusian authorities. Their property has been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic agrees with the U.S. government that implementing robust export controls on domestically made AI chips will help the U.S. compete in the AI race against China. But the company is suggesting a few tweaks to the proposed restrictions. Anthropic released a blog post on Wednesday stating that the company &#8220;strongly supports&#8221; the U.S. Department [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a &#8220;more than&#8221; $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and &#8220;accelerate [IBM&#8217;s] role as the global leader in computing,&#8221; the company said in a press release Monday. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort. These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google’s decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an unauthorized Signal group chat by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, where numerous high-ranking [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who&#8217;s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on X, Brown said that Chen learned of the decision Friday and must soon leave the country. &#8220;It&#8217;s deeply [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Individuals, industry groups, and local governments submitted over 10,000 comments to the White House about its work-in-progress national AI policy, also known as the AI Action Plan. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published the text of the submissions in a PDF spanning 18,480 pages. The comments, which touch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting pressure on social media companies to step up. On Thursday, 45 families who lost children to online harms — from sextortion to cyberbullying — held a vigil outside one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of 2025, according to reporting from Reuters and Bloomberg. These cuts amount to $100 million in future payments, per Bloomberg. Federal contracts represent [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. Department of Justice is probing Disney&#8217;s deal to take a controlling stake in FuboTV, Bloomberg reports. Fubo is a live TV streaming service known for its&nbsp;extensive sports coverage. Officials are examining whether the deal would create a concentration of power in the sports streaming market. In January, Disney announced that it was going [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union has fined Apple €500 million (about $568 million) and Meta €200 million (about $227 million) for allegedly breaching the bloc&#8217;s Digital Markets Act, according to The Wall Street Journal. The EU has accused Apple of failing to comply with an obligation to allow app developers to inform customers of alternative ways to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta&#8217;s Oversight Board, the independent group created to help Meta with content moderation decisions, on Tuesday issued its response to the social media company&#8217;s new hate speech policies announced in January. The Board says that Meta&#8217;s new policies were &#8220;announced hastily, in a departure from regular procedure,&#8221; and called on the company to provide more [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Uber, alleging the ride-hail and delivery giant charged customers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent. The lawsuit also claims Uber failed to deliver the savings promised in its subscription service and made it unreasonably difficult for users to cancel despite its “cancel anytime” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The tech market doesn&#8217;t need to be soaring up and to the right to foster healthy M&amp;A activity. Deals can get done even in down markets. But can M&amp;A thrive in an uncertain market? That&#8217;s a harder question. The venture market soured in 2022 as fundraising and exits largely dried up. Since then, venture investors [&hellip;]</p>

<p>An&nbsp;AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record —&nbsp;the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk. Speaking to TechCrunch, the student, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, said they were notified via their college&#8217;s international student center that they&#8217;d been identified in a criminal records [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to push back with an extensive defense of Palantir’s work. The back-and-forth came after federal filings showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — tasked with carrying out the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO, Joe Selsavage, asking a number of questions about how 23andMe will handle customer data [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump&#8217;s purview, the page redirects to a White House website espousing the unproven theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. The theory, which has been opposed by many virologists, was espoused in a report by House Republicans [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The company sells “cooling credits” for its sulfur dioxide-based geoengineering projects.</p>

<p>President Donald Trump’s tariffs have underscored the increasing geopolitical risk that almost all businesses now face. As the situation continues to shift with Trump’s unpredictable deal-making, it’s also becoming clear how challenging it is for companies, nonprofits, consultants, and lawyers to keep up with the rapid day-to-day changes. &#8220;We are drowning in trade updates every [&hellip;]</p>