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Pour one out for Roku City
By this time next year, Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch intends to have added Roku to his already expansive media empire. Should the acquisition g…
Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media ban for kids
The state of Florida is suing TikTok over claims the company isn't complying with the state's child safety law, which bans kids under 14 from creating…
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Tru…
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off f…
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had lit…
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal …
Happy birthday to the Trump phone
From the day it was announced, on June 16th, 2025, the Trump phone sounded ridiculous. The T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), as it was officially called, …
China may have accessed Mythos
According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears tha…
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in p…
Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.
Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.
The bill that would let Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr is here
Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting co…
Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern I…
iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe
After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost …
Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets
The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Googl…
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Apple wants Europe to blink
It took a few years, but Apple finally made its AI look useful. Now millions of iPhone users in Europe are being told they won't be getting Siri AI an…
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies…
Apple’s new parental controls are for keeping Apple out of trouble
When Apple put child safety front and center at WWDC on Monday, its stated goal was helping parents fine-tune their kids' online experiences and avoid…
What happens when your phone is confiscated at the airport
Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have …
MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: …
Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. Thi…
Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center
Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported…
Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources."
AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix
In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impac…
Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The ne…
Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.
Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the fed…
Trump goes after green cards
On the Friday before Memorial Day, on the eve of a long weekend, the Trump administration announced that it was further gutting legal immigration. The…
Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions
Switching from fossil fuels to electricity for heating is no longer covered.