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Around the time Jigar Shah became director of the loan programs office at the U.S. Department of Energy, his venture capitalist friends gave him an earful about the idea of investing in nuclear power startups. “Like, 20 of my best friends in 2021 told me, ‘Jigar, we will never, ever in a million years invest in nuclear power,’” said Shah, whose office doled out tens of billions of dollars in loans to clean energy projects, including nuclear.
Now, though, that sentiment has flipped completely. “Every one of
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Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five uniformed leaders. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that […] Read more ›
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Nvidia and research partners introduce Evo 2. Evo 2 can identify disease-causing mutations and assist in synthetic genome design. Nvidia and its research partners have developed an artificial intelligence model designed to analyse genetic sequences at an unprecedented scale. Announced on February 19, the Evo 2 AI is built to read and design genetic code... Read more » Read more ›
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Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed. Read more ›
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Letâs pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. Thereâs been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon Muskâs misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant […] Read more ›
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Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era. Read more ›
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Meta has offered up a lucrative new executive bonus plan, according to a company filing released Thursday. Under the new plan, executives could earn a yearly bonus of 200 percent of their base salary, which is up from 75 percent. This comes just after Meta announced sweeping layoffs impacting five percent of its workforce. A committee for Meta’s board of directors approved the change on February 13, on the grounds... Read more ›
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The more than 8,000 charging ports available to federal workers are "not mission critical," says the Government Services Agency. Read more ›
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The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role. Read more ›
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Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down. Read more ›
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California Governor Gavin Newsom this week recommended former Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the $1 American Innovation Coin for the State of California that will be minted by the U.S. Mint. Each state is able to create a unique coin recognizing an innovation or innovator from their region as part of the Innovation Coin Program that was launched in 2018. Newsom said that Steve Jobs "encapsulates the unique brand of... Read more ›
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Kelly Ortberg, the CEO of Boeing, said he is working with the DOGE team to speed up delivery. Read more ›
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It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. Nvidia global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge: We […] Read more ›
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Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans. Those resources don’t just appear. They come from nature. Freshwater mussels, clams, and aquatic vegetation, for example, filter rivers and streams and provide clean places to swim and habitat for […] Read more ›
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Following some apparent outages yesterday, Reddit is dealing with more issues Friday evening. When logged in on my desktop browser, Reddit won’t load at all — I just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loads, though it seems to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the site […] Read more ›
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The move comes as the company was hit by an encryption backdoor order under the UK Investigatory Powers Act. Here's all we know so far. Read more ›
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Broadcom has joined TSMC in considering possible deals to buy part of Intel, the Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of the U.S. chipmaking icon’s steady decline. Last week officials within the Trump administration asked TSMC, which makes most of the world’s most advanced chips on ... Read more ›
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Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better for creators, according to a person with direct knowledge of the... Read more ›
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To make Facebook cool again, Meta Platforms is asking some of the most popular creators on YouTube for advice, ranging from MrBeast to Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who explains scientific concepts. The creators aren’t holding back. Facebook has a “big hill to climb,” said Rober, who has 64 million followers on YouTube and 5.3 million on Facebook, and whose team has been talking to Meta about Facebook for... Read more ›
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Uncertainty about the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies is dampening expectations for how consumer spending will hold up this year. Just look at Walmart, which today projected that its revenue growth this fiscal year would slow to between 3% and 4%, compared with 5% for the year that ended Jan. 31, 2025. Executives used variations of the word “uncertain” five times on a call with analysts. And... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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Long gone are the days when podcasting just meant audio episodes. Spotify and others have been pushing podcasters to post video versions of their shows, which can open up new types of advertising such as product placement and give podcasters video clips that can expand their reach. But some podcasters are skeptical that the video effort will pay off. Video is “forcing people to change what the core competency of... Read more ›
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The question “What did Ilya see?” became an oft-repeated meme asking why OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, cast a dramatic vote to oust Sam Altman in the short-lived ouster of the CEO 15 months ago. A significant fundraising that would value Sutskever’s new startup, Safe Superintelligence, at more than $30 billion turns that question on its head. The new money would make the company one of the 12 most valuable... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has long been a vocal critic of Microsoft. A couple of years ago, he accused the company of violating antitrust laws in how it sells software bundles. More recently, he has slammed its artificial intelligence chatbot for giving inaccurate responses and being difficult to use. But that history hasn’t stopped Salesforce from including Microsoft in negotiations it is having with several cloud providers—also including Google and... Read more ›
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Two big fintechs, banking app Chime and “buy now, pay later” firm Klarna, are getting ready to go public. While they were primping and polishing, they got a pleasant surprise from Washington this week: The Donald Trump administration effectively shut down the top consumer finance regulator. The shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could help the two companies—which offer lending products that received growing scrutiny from the agency in... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Nuclear power could help tech solve its AI-driven electricity problem, if new reactors can actually get built.• Venture Bets: There’s a vibe shift in nuclear startup investing.• Clean Energy: Fusion, geothermal, solar. It’s not all about nuclear fission.• Plus, our Recommendations, messed-up love edition: A Lynch affair; Kafka for the ChatGPT generation and romance with a Scottish brogue.“This weekend feels like San... Read more ›
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