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Government & Policy

Elon Musk said hes not interested in acquiring TikTok

Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at...

Andrew Ng is very glad Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems...

German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections

Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest...

Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used...

India expands Aadhaar authentication for businesses, raising privacy concerns

India has eased restrictions on its Aadhaar authentication service, a digital identity verification framework linked to the biometrics of over 1.4 billion people,...

Senator warns of nationwide security dangers after Elon Musks DOGE granted full entry to soundless Treasury systems

A senior U.S. lawmaker says representatives of Elon Musk were granted “full entry” to a U.S. Treasury payments machine veteran to disperse trillions...

Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the interior workings of US executive companies

Folks working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking on the interior workings of just a few executive companies, along with the...

Pentagon scrambles to block DeepSeek after employees connect to Chinese servers

DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law —...

Mexican president pushes back against Googles renaming of Gulf of Mexico

Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename several American landmarks, including the Gulf of Mexico to...

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