Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year
Launches ‘Gemini For Government’ AI At Less Than $0.50 Per Unit Craig Hale / TechRadar : Google has an all-new Gemini AI service built specially for the US Government Jean Leon / Android Headlines : G...
Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve “websites and physical sites”; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it
Powell's last speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to give … Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Florida man orders beautification of America after gold-plating the White House Mallory Wi...
Donald Trump signs an EO ending “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to investigate if the Biden admin censored US citizens' free speech
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... [image] Ryan Goodman / @rgoodlaw : This Executive Order appears to be the executive branch taking up the work of Jim Jordan's weaponization of government select sub...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy …
A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends that the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling and not a financial service
Summary So-called “cryptoassets” span a wide and rapidly evolving range … Ledger Insights : UK Parliament's Treasury Committee wants crypto regulated as gambling Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4lif...
HSBC acquires Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm for £1, citing “strategic sense for our business”; as of March 10, SVB UK had ~£5.5B in loans and ~£6.7B in deposits
Sale Facilitated by Government, Bank of England Tweets: Jeremy Hunt / @jeremy_hunt : This morning, the Government and the Bank of England facilitated a private sale of Silicon Valley Bank UK to HSBC D...
The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs
Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has likely lost $10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at ~$51K
- Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost
The BBC releases first beta of Beeb, its English language voice assistant, to UK Windows Insider members, with an ability to understand a range of UK accents
but Amazon won't be worried Jon Porter / The Verge : BBC releases its own ‘Beeb’ voice assistant in beta Rachel Thompson / Mashable : BBC launches voice assistant that will learn regional accents Dami...