<p>President Donald Trump has said that a deal with TikTok&#8217;s parent company ByteDance to sell the app will be finalized before the April 5 deadline, Reuters reports. &#8220;We have a lot of potential buyers,&#8221; Trump told reporters. &#8220;There&#8217;s tremendous interest in TikTok. He added, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to see TikTok remain alive.&#8221; Trump extended the deadline [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&#8220;Tesla Takedown&#8221; organizers have promised their biggest day of global action today, encouraging thousands to protest outside Tesla showrooms, dealerships, and even charging stations to peacefully object to Elon Musk’s role in slashing government spending.  As Tesla protests have spread, so has the backlash. Activists holding up signs are being conflated with masked vandals throwing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice President J. D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, communicated the plans for an attack on the Yemeni Houthis via a potentially unauthorized group chat on Signal. However, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta, X, and Snap are celebrating a new Utah law that will require Apple and Google to take responsibility for verifying users&#8217; ages on their app stores and obtain parental consent for minors. The tech giants have been battling to determine which party should be responsible for age verification on the app stores. Companies like [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The health insurance giant is the latest to remove references to diversity, equity and inclusion policies amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration.</p>

<p>Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has allowed Chinese investors to buy stakes as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore hubs, according to reporting from ProPublica.&nbsp; SpaceX is a defense contractor for the Pentagon, one that handles sensitive work like building a classified spy satellite network. Investment from China [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bradley Tusk, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Venture Partners, told TechCrunch in today’s episode of Equity that VC as we know it is dead. And it has been for the last four years.&nbsp; “Maybe there’s some VC that I’ve never heard of that’s awash with liquidity the last couple of years, but we haven’t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. &#8220;Karma is real,&#8221; Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she&#8217;s not afraid of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe &#8212; claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google&#8217;s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It&#8217;s well established that AI models developed by Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek censor certain politically sensitive topics. A 2023 measure passed by China&#8217;s ruling party forbids models from generating content that &#8220;damages the unity of the country and social harmony.&#8221; According to one study, DeepSeek&#8217;s R1 refuses to answer 85% of questions about subjects [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is suing the Indian government, accusing the country&#8217;s IT ministry of unlawfully expanding its powers to remove online content, Reuters reported Thursday. X has long chaffed at government orders to remove or block content in the country, such as during the farmers&#8217; protests last year. Though it ended up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sequoia will shutter its Washington, D.C., office and part ways with the policy team there at the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news comes — and is somewhat in contrast — with the other prominent VC firms in Silicon Valley strengthening their ties with Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. Andreessen Horowitz, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that &#8220;have not yet been observed in the world&#8221; when crafting AI regulatory policies. The 41-page interim report released on Tuesday comes from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The judge also found that the nonprofits will “suffer imminent, irreparable harm” if they don’t gain access to their funding.</p>

<p>Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by EU Commission enforcers of the bloc&#8217;s flagship market contestability law, who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google&#8217;s parent) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union has sent Apple preliminary instructions on how it expects the iPhone maker to comply with interoperability provisions in the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), its flagship market contestability reform. According to the Commission, device manufacturers and app developers should be able to access nine iOS connectivity features that were restricted to Apple&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mobile networks continue to be a major target for cybersecurity breaches, and Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon&#8217;s persistent attacks on multiple carriers are only the latest known examples.&nbsp; The mobile carrier startup Cape is taking a novel approach to addressing the problem: It has built a service it says can provide a more secure, private [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to a 1935 Supreme Court precedent prohibiting the firing of FTC commissioners for reasons other than &#8220;good cause.&#8221; The White House terminated commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya earlier Tuesday, The New York Times reported. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Tuesday, Vice President J. D. Vance said that the Trump administration&#8217;s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists and those investing and leading tech companies.  &#8220;I think there&#8217;s too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so many of the things that we do now,&#8221; said Vance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s role overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is likely a violation of the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s appointments clause, a federal judge wrote Tuesday. Theodore Chuang, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, wrote in an opinion there is more than enough evidence &#8212; mostly from statements made by [&hellip;]</p>