Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?
…The texture of the phone’s trademark golden finish varies throughout, frosted in some shots and perfectly shiny in others. The phone’s boot-up screen changes too, as does its box…
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Uber employees have a Dara AI
…It strikes me just as you’re talking here that you’re describing everything in terms of trade-offs. Even risk, you’re describing in terms of trade-off. Everything’s a…
Twitter - X
…The EFF is quitting X Stevie Bonifield Apr 9 Why Polymarket keeps boosting fake inside traders Viral posts about insider trading don’t have to be true to be valuable. Mia Sato…
Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections
…ICA will be focused explicitly on promoting Trump’s AI agenda, and that means addressing a new issue inside the Republican Party: populist-leaning candidates unwilling to cave to whatever pro-industry…
Data centers are coming for rural America
…Business Insider recently reported that the national subsidy for data centers exceeded $2 million in costs per permanent job, and in some cases, like one in New York, companies received nearly $77…
Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
…I watched Alexis Ohanian, venture capitalist and cofounder of Reddit, stun a room of Washington insiders by criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration policies. This happened in front of at least one…
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…For more than a decade, vendors and government representatives have mingled at the Border Security Expo, an annual trade show at which the former hawk their goods to the latter, promising that…
Social Media Platforms
…The Federal Trade Commission, which regulates deceptive business practices, requires influencers to disclose payments for promoting commercial products and services but, it says, does not regulate political advertisements. Snap, YouTube, and TikTok…
Behold the crown jewel of outrageous gaming laptops
…These are pricey features, and that’s before you consider whatever the 32GB of soldered RAM and 1TB SSD inside it costs these days. But who is this for? Who needs a…
Cryptocurrency
…CFTC insists it’s the sole authority on prediction markets — but can the agency police insider trading? Elizabeth Lopatto Mar 18 Elizabeth Lopatto Mar 10 Ben McKenzie has a new crypto documentary…