<p>Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize,” DEI programs deemed illegal in private sector companies that receive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A federal judge has found that Google violated antitrust laws by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the advertising technology market, rounding out a two-year saga after the U.S. and eight states filed its initial complaints against the Alphabet-owned company. The court will set a briefing schedule and hearing date to determine appropriate remedies [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Temu and Shein plan to raise prices for U.S. customers starting April 25, due to President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs on goods shipped from China, the Associated Press reports. The 145% tariff on products made in China, along with Trump&#8217;s decision to end a customs exemption that had allowed goods under $800 to enter the U.S. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, has closed a $75 million funding round at a valuation of $1.5 billion led by private equity and venture firm Stripes. The startup helps seniors choose Medicare health plans analyzing doctors, hospitals, and prescription drug coverage. Unlike many other Medicare insurance brokers, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The restrictions are part of the Trump administration&#8217;s effort to compete with China on AI. Months after [&hellip;]</p>

<p>U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy said that the administrations actions were “neither reasonable nor reasonably explained.”</p>

<p>AMD says that the U.S. government&#8217;s license control requirement for exporting AI chips to China and certain other countries may have a material impact on its earnings. If AMD doesn&#8217;t successfully obtain a license, the company could be on the hook for roughly $800 million in inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves charges, it said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 —&nbsp;more than triple the number from the previous year —&nbsp;in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and illegitimate payment details, the search giant said it could suspend [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk says it’s his duty to “make new humans.&#8221; Now, a WSJ investigation suggests he may have fathered more than the 14 children already known, with sources claiming the real number could be significantly higher. The report also describes how Musk keeps those details under wraps. At the center of it all, per the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The tech industry may not be safe from new tariffs, according to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The Trump administration announced Friday evening that consumer electronics such as laptops and smartphones would be exempt from the tariffs it unveiled earlier this month. (While Trump delayed many of those tariffs this week, he left a 10% [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block), sparked a weekend’s worth of debate around intellectual property, patents, and copyright, with a characteristically terse post declaring, “delete all IP law.” X’s current owner, Elon Musk, quickly replied, “I agree.” It’s not clear what exactly brought these comments on, but they come at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trump administration is carving out big tariff exemptions for the tech industry. While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would delay many of the market-shaking tariffs that he’d announced the previous week, he kept a universal baseline 10% tariff in place, while also increasing tariffs on Chinese goods to 125% (on top of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training its Llama AI models on e-books without permission. The brief, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, calls Meta’s fair use defense &#8220;a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Small businesses could be crushed under President Trump’s increased tariffs, according to an open letter by 38 female consumer product founders. While Trump paused his tariff increases for 90 days for various countries &#8212; setting the rate at 10% for now &#8212; China&#8217;s was raised to 145%, which includes the previous 20% levy. In the letter, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data &#8220;comprised&#8221; in publicly accessible posts by European users for the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Several tech companies have scaled back public commitments to DEI amid a broader crackdown by the Trump administration.</p>

<p>U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attended the ASU+GSV Summit this week, where experts in education and technology gathered to discuss how AI will impact learning. While speaking on a panel about AI in the workforce, McMahon repeatedly referred to AI as &#8220;A1,&#8221; like the steak sauce. &#8220;You know, AI development — I mean, how [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The dramatic tiff between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, shows no sign of letting up. In a filing on Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI and other defendants in the case, including CEO Sam Altman, called for Musk to be enjoined from &#8220;further unlawful and unfair action&#8221; and &#8220;held responsible for the damage he [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book &#8220;Careless People,&#8221; told U.S. senators during her testimony on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted teens with advertisements based on their emotional state. This claim was first documented by Wynn-Williams in her book, which documents [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook&#8217;s former head of Global Public Policy, testified before the U.S. Senate today about the company&#8217;s relationship with China. According to Wynn-Williams, the company now known as Meta worked directly with the Chinese Community Party (CCP) to &#8220;undermine U.S. national security and betray American values,&#8221; she said. She alleges that Facebook created custom-built [&hellip;]</p>