Articles from www.politico.com

Articles from www.politico.com

A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (www.politico.com)
2025-9-20 Instagram

Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision-making (www.politico.com)
2025-9-16 Trump Intel

How California reached a deal to let ride-hailing drivers unionize while reducing insurance requirements for Uber and Lyft, ending years of costly legal fights (www.politico.com)
2025-9-16 Uber Insurance California

California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 AI California

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 Google California

CFTC nominee Brian Quintenz says the Winklevosses asked Trump to pause his confirmation after he refused to make promises “rectifying” a prior Gemini settlement (www.politico.com)
2025-9-11 Trump CFTC

As the Pentagon rushes to deploy AI into its weapons systems, some experts fear humans can't keep pace with AI's aggressive tendency to escalate in a crisis (www.politico.com)
2025-9-4 AI Pentagon

A six-year US effort to counter Chinese telecom dominance took a hit after the One Big Beautiful Bill cut ~$1B from a program aimed at developing Open RAN tech (www.politico.com)
2025-9-3 China

Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation (www.politico.com)
2025-8-27 AI California

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (www.politico.com)
2025-8-18 California

A senior US official says the recent hack of the US federal court filing system is a continuation of “rudimentary security issues” persisting since 2020 (www.politico.com)
2025-8-13

Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7

A US federal judge strikes down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7 AI California

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (www.politico.com)
2025-7-27 Trump AI

SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law (www.politico.com)
2025-6-28 Texas

Sources: the White House recently rejected the DOD's recommendation to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Richard Angle as director of the NSA and head of US Cyber Command (www.politico.com)
2025-6-22

Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting (www.politico.com)
2025-5-28 Trump

Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so (www.politico.com)
2025-5-22 Mobile AT&T Senate

A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns (www.politico.com)
2025-5-10

Environmental groups: xAI's Memphis plant now has ~35 gas turbines, and xAI has no Clean Air Act permits; Elon Musk said turbines were necessary to train Grok 3 (www.politico.com)
2025-5-7 Elon Musk

After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill (www.politico.com)
2025-4-21 Senate

Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts (www.politico.com)
2025-4-16

FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe (www.politico.com)
2025-4-15 Snapchat Instagram WhatsApp

Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs (www.politico.com)
2025-4-14 Trump

Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (www.politico.com)
2025-4-7 Trump Zuckerberg Bannon

Investors, founders, and others detail a culture of fear around criticizing Elon Musk or DOGE; some are appalled he is seen as a reflection of the tech industry (www.politico.com)
2025-4-5 Elon Musk

Sources: President Trump told his inner circle, including Cabinet members, that Elon Musk will step back in the coming weeks; Trump remains pleased with DOGE (www.politico.com)
2025-4-3 Trump Elon Musk

Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete (www.politico.com)
2025-3-28

DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack (www.politico.com)
2025-3-27

The Senate Commerce Committee approves the Kids Off Social Media Act to ban under-13s from social media, clearing the way for consideration by the Senate (www.politico.com)
2025-2-6 Ban Social Media Senate

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