A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's Department of For-Hire Vehicles
Drivers for the ride-hailing company Empower protest outside a City Council meeting in Washington, D.C.Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times
At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China
Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.Jason Andrew for The New York Times X: @ainowinstitute , @thekenyeung , and @...
The US House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a bill that would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, after TikTok's campaign reportedly enraged legislators
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The US could be on the cusp of a chipmaking boom, with 50+ projects announced since the CHIPS Act, but officials worry the industry could face a worker shortage
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times : LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson and Bridget Altenburg Tweets: @congressmanraja , @rweingarten , @nytimesbusiness , and @crampell LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson : The New York Ti...
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay
Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
The New York Times says it isn't planning to pay for Twitter verification and, as a rule, won't reimburse reporters for verification of personal accounts
New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tell...
An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others
The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …
The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes
for a Good Reason Alfonso Maruccia / TechSpot : White House consults experts, lays down a six-point plan to increase Big Tech accountability GovTech : White House Outlines Guiding Principles for Big T...
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
Good morning! This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store