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Today’s episode of America’s greatest reality series—yes, I’m talking about Elon Musk’s falling-out with President Donald Trump—was a barn burner. But rather than rehashing the gory details here (as extraordinary as their social media back-and-forth was, it was also entirely predictable), it’s more interesting to consider what this means for tech’s broader relationship with the Trump administration. I’m talking about the tech bros still in the White House—most obviously artificial intelligence and crypto ad
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Last month, two Republican federal appeals court judges effectively abolished the law banning race discrimination in elections in seven states. On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a brief order blocking this decision. The upshot is that, at least for now, it is still illegal for a state to disenfranchise someone because of the color of […] Read more ›
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Reports of Donald Trump’s name repeatedly appearing in the Jeffrey Epstein files, coupled with the unearthing of a suggestive birthday card that the president sent the convicted sex offender, have renewed scrutiny of their relationship. But if the government really had damning information about Trump’s entanglements with Epstein in its possession for years, then why […] Read more ›
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After delivering a rambling celebration of tariffs and a routine about women's sports, President Donald Trump entertained a crowd, which was there to hear about his new AI Action Plan, with one his favorite topics: "wokeness." Trump complained that AI companies under former President Joe Biden "had to hire all woke people," adding that it […] Read more ›
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T-Satellite aims to eliminate cell phone dead zones, at least for texting. Learn who gets it free. Read more ›
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In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that the company will dramatically shrink as a result […] Read more ›
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Slack is the glue that holds OpenAI together: Everyone at the 3,000-person company constantly uses the messaging app to discuss their work, former employees have said.So perhaps it’s no surprise that as OpenAI tried to turn ChatGPT into a core enterprise productivity app that connects to all the other apps people use for work, it wanted customers—and OpenAI employees!—to be able to access their Slack messages and files directly from... Read more ›
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As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it’s getting help from more of its existing investors. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Dragoneer Investment Group have committed to investing more than $1 billion each in the second, $30 billion installment of the round, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives. SV Angel, known for its investments in nascent startups, has committed to... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Flying taxis near reality thanks to an unexpected boost from Toyota• The Top 5: A tech mogul’s guide to summer fashion, Sun Valley style • Plus, our Recommendations: “Flesh and Code,” “The CIA Book Club” and “Su Majestad.”Silicon Valley has many flaws. A prominent one: an industrywide aversion to good, catchy names. Too many lowercase letters. Too few vowels. Sometimes a name... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it also would have revealed to the public how dramatically the performance of the models dropped when Apple shrunk them to fit on iPhones, compared... Read more ›
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Alphabet kicked off earnings season for social media companies with good news from YouTube: the video juggernaut’s advertising revenue rose 13% year over year in the second quarter, beating its growth rate in the first quarter and calming fears that President Trump’s tariffs would be a headwind for social media revenues. Another positive sign: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said that YouTube Shorts now earn as much revenue per watch hour... Read more ›
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Cursor has restricted China-based users from accessing U.S. models offered by its coding assistant software, such as Claude-4-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Pro, according to three users. These users received notifications stating that these models had become unavailable due to location-based ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has hired three more artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his aggressive efforts to recover from stumbles earlier this year with an unprecedented AI recruiting push. The latest hires—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du and Weiyue Wang—worked on a version of Google’s Gemini model that the search giant this week said had solved problems in this year’s International Math Olympiad at a level that... Read more ›
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We’ve written a lot lately about the hefty stock packages companies like Meta Platforms, OpenAI and others are dishing out to recruit artificial intelligence researchers. Outside AI, many private company CEOs are also recalibrating how they use shares to keep and reward people. Take, for instance, Armis. The nine-year-old cybersecurity startup has recently completed a $100 million buyback of shares held by current employees, funded by new and existing investors,... Read more ›
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What do you get when you mix plenty of the world’s most powerful capitalists with a sleepaway camp setup in Idaho? Well, for years, the Sun Valley Conference, hosted by Allen & Co., the ultrasecretive investment bank, was a place to hobnob and perhaps strike a deal. It’s something else now: an honest-to-goodness fashion event, with more and more attendees clearly putting considerable effort into what they put on each... Read more ›
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Imagine buying a house from someone who refused to show you the interior. The roof might be leaking, but the sellers don’t want you to know. That’s what it’s like buying shares in many of the biggest tech companies, which refuse to disclose key details about their business. More strikingly, many of these companies—such as Netflix and Apple—steadily reduce what they disclose as they mature. The only conclusion: They don’t... Read more ›
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