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The Trump administration appears to be giving Starlink, a division of SpaceX, preferential treatment.

The Trump administration appears to be giving Starlink, a division of SpaceX, preferential treatment.


The battle over artificial intelligence is just beginning.


How a new asteroid showed Earth’s planetary defense system at work.


Understand how ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E are transforming our world — from text and image generation to how we live and work.
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All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.


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The White House is promising to manipulate economic data.


Here’s what’s next for federal workers.


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X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.


Trump and Musk are doing the Democrats’ job for them.


These days, bad manners aren’t the only reason read receipts are a bad idea.


The future of American politics is being hashed out on podcasts.


This DOGE cut could actually cost the government money.


Polls show DOGE’s federal government purge is politically polarizing.


Don’t bank on it.


Joseph Haldeman wanted a dictatorship of engineers. DOGE would have made him proud.


Ames v. Ohio should be an easy — and potentially unanimously decided — case, assuming the Court doesn’t overreach.


It’s a vital moment for AI policy. DOGE’s mass firings could trash vital expertise.

The best answer — AI has “jagged intelligence” — lies in between hype and skepticism.


Remember: You’re smarter than the scammers.


Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.


Elon Musk’s group is pushing to access the IRS’ most sensitive information.


OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit is sketchy. Musk’s $97 billion offer shows why.


What should the main Democratic message to Americans be right now?


Elon Musk is using the anti-teacher playbook against the entire civil workforce.


The lawsuit asks a very simple question: Who appointed Musk, and what, exactly, does he do?


The more agency we give AI assistants, the scarier they get.


DOGE isn’t about fixing America’s debt problem.


The Logoff explains why yet another Trump ploy got frozen.


Twitter is real life now.


Lithium-ion battery technology is imperfect, but it’s not going anywhere.


Democrats and anti-Trump activists are finally finding their footing. It just took Elon Musk to get them there.


Musk’s growing influence over the government’s digital infrastructure raises concerns about privacy and overreach.


How Donald Trump and Elon Musk could use a debt ceiling breach to usurp Congress’s power.


Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.


The people turning to generative AI for their most sensitive messages.


How the attention economy is reshaping our world.


What the hot new Chinese AI product means — and what it doesn’t.


Democrats have paid a political price for taking on Silicon Valley — but not a very expensive one.


The DeepSeek saga that’s transforming AI, explained


Are we really 89 seconds away from annihilation?


The company’s Stargate project will create lots of opportunities. But not for humans.