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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)
3 days ago

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)
4 days ago

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

Trump and the DOJ have been flouting a bipartisan law to shut down TikTok since his inauguration, and Republicans and Democrats seem to be doing little about it (www.politico.com)
2025-1-29 Trump Democrat Republican

Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law (www.politico.com)
2025-1-25 Trump Ban

Although Trump downplayed Elon Musk's Stargate criticism, assuring reporters “they're putting up the money”, key White House sources say they're furious at Musk (www.politico.com)
2025-1-24 Trump Elon Musk

Despite tanking, Trump's memecoin, with a $60B+ market cap, is the 19th most valuable cryptocurrency per CoinGecko; some in crypto call it a “horrible look” (www.politico.com)
2025-1-20 Trump Cryptocurrency

Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of RedNote and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban (www.politico.com)
2025-1-19 Ban

Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to the Trump inaugural fund; Ripple, a major target of SEC enforcement action, donated $5M in digital tokens (www.politico.com)
2025-1-18 Trump

OpenAI is tripling the size of its DC policy team to 12 and beefing up its lobbying as it tries to promote a sweeping plan for cheaper energy to data centers (www.politico.com)
2024-12-28 Energy

Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP (www.politico.com)
2024-12-27 Elon Musk H1B Republican

US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress (www.politico.com)
2024-12-27

Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office (www.politico.com)
2024-12-26 Manufacturing

Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community (www.politico.com)
2024-12-15 Trump Intelligence

Q&A with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on what happens to the CHIPS program under the Trump administration, the future of AI safety, and more (www.politico.com)
2024-11-25 Trump AI

Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (www.politico.com)
2024-11-18 Trump

A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle (www.politico.com)
2024-11-3

FTC data: three crypto super PACs have spent $82M in 19 races, including $40M in Ohio and $10M in Arizona; the ads focus on candidates and rarely mention crypto (www.politico.com)
2024-10-17

The US is fretting over signing a UN cybercrime treaty due to fears Russia, China, and others could use it to justify surveillance and suppression of rights (www.politico.com)
2024-9-28 Russia China

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (www.politico.com)
2024-9-25 Democrat

A profile of lobbyist Andrew Kingman, who has exerted immense influence on US tech policy by helping large companies that want lax rules on data privacy (www.politico.com)
2024-9-19

Sources: LobbyMatic, which offers AI tools for lobbying, is covertly run by far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons, including Jacob Wohl (www.politico.com)
2024-9-2 AI Conspiracy Far-right

In his upcoming book, Trump says Mark Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and he'd “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he did it again (www.politico.com)
2024-8-29 Trump Zuckerberg

Google and the state of California strike a deal to jointly contribute $125M+ over five years to support local news; it also includes support for an AI project (www.politico.com)
2024-8-22 Google AI California

Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email” to a campaign (www.politico.com)
2024-8-11 Trump Microsoft Iran

A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc (www.politico.com)
2024-8-5 FBI

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai on antitrust grounds (www.politico.com)
2024-8-2 Israel AI Nvidia

Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris would provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington DC toward big tech companies (www.politico.com)
2024-7-24

Sources: the US DOJ plans to sue RealPage by the end of the summer, accusing the company of selling software that allows landlords to collude on setting rents (www.politico.com)
2024-7-13

Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent (www.politico.com)
2024-6-24 Startup AI Y Combinator California

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