Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits
Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fan...
How David Sacks emerged as the most effective advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, using his tech expertise and All-In co-host status
The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus … X: @davemcclure , @reedalbergotti , and @semaforben X: Da...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Jose...
Elon Musk says “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far”; last week, Trump said he had no desire to repair the relationship
President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week. Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest …
President Trump's World Liberty Financial says Abu Dhabi's MGX fund is investing $2B in Binance using World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, raising ethical concerns
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son …
Sources: StubHub, Klarna, eToro, and adtech group MNTN have paused their IPO plans as President Trump's trade war upends the global economy and public markets
Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions and initial public offerings are on hold as Donald Trump's trade war upends the global economy …
Sources: Klarna has halted its planned IPO in the wake of Trump's tariffs turmoil; StubHub has also delayed its IPO plans
Klarna, the specialty lending and online payments provider, has halted its planned initial public offering, the latest IPO casualty in the wake of Trump administration's sweeping t...
Sources: Trump family representatives have held talks to take a financial stake in Binance US, and Changpeng Zhao has been pushing for Trump to pardon him
Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses
The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining
Lucinda Shen / Axios :
Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months
guessing this is due to historical Meta (over-)$pend on VR, hwvr this time seems like it's the right decision... wouldn't be surprised to see market revise their opinion in future....
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
The spending that the industry's giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk's claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming”
CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon's statements and acknowledging that this year is shaping up to be a hard one for the company.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular...
Sources: the FBI suspended briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence campaigns, due to the GOP's attacks on info sharing
X added five-second delays, some now removed, on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Musk attacks
The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …
The US Federal Reserve launches FedNow, its long-awaited real-time payments system that will eventually let individuals and businesses transfer money in seconds
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and 33 Banks Onboard Emma Roth / The Verge : The Federal Reserve's 24/7 payment system could deposit your paycheck instantly Paul Hill / Neowin : FedNow Serv...
With Twitter traffic “tanking” and Threads ascendant, Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg “is a cuck” and proposes “a literal dick-measuring contest”
Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk's network