Eric Trump, the third child of President Donald Trump, showed up in Hong Kong this week to hawk his latest crypto venture and, according to him, it’s going to the moon. Trump spoke at Hong Kong’s Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference, the first stop in a planned series of crypto events across Asia featuring various Trump […]
Trump Admin Has Dropped a Third of All Investigations Into Big Tech, Advocates Say
Trump talked a big game during the election about taking the fight to Silicon Valley. But, since taking office, the former reality star seems to have done little to make good on that promise. In fact, a recent survey of his actions claims that Trump, whose political victory was partially propelled by gargantuan gobs of […]
U.S. Allegedly Super-Charged Its Efforts to Prevent China From Getting American Chips
The Trump administration has made curbing China’s access to high-powered AI chips a high priority. According to the government, China may use the chips to build up its arsenal of military technology, and it simply can’t have that. At the same time, America’s considerable and longstanding chip export controls may also be aimed at slowing […]
Apple Is Opening a Manufacturing Academy in Detroit
Apple just announced plans to open a manufacturing academy in Detroit this August, as the company faces pressure from President Donald Trump to build iPhones in the U.S. Starting August 19, Apple will partner with Michigan State University to host free workshops for small and mid-sized businesses, aimed at helping American companies adopt artificial intelligence […]
Mysterious Whale Makes a 17,000,000% Profit on a 14-Year-Old Bitcoin Bet
Several Bitcoin whales—investors who hold large amounts of the cryptocurrency — have recently started cashing out after leaving their Bitcoin untouched for more than a decade. Last week, one anonymous whale sold 80,000 Bitcoin for a whopping $9.5 billion. A user on X (formerly Twitter) first flagged the massive transaction, which was later reported by […]
Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun Buys Another $100 Million of Trump’s Memecoin
Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain, announced this week that he had purchased yet another $100 million of Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP. Sun already owns a substantial amount of the asset. The crypto mogul also announced that the coin would soon be tradable on his blockchain. All of this is complicated by the […]
Elon’s DOGE Is Reportedly Using Grok AI With Government Data
Reuters reports that Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, Grok, is now being used by the U.S. government. While the extent and nature of that usage is unclear, sources interviewed by the news outlet have expressed alarm at the implications of the chatbot’s access to government data. Grok was launched by xAI, an AI company founded by […]
Trump Issues New Executive Order to Eliminate Federal Funding for NPR and PBS
During his second campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened to continue his war against the media (or, as he fondly calls us, “the enemy of the American people”). Although Trump is barely over 100 days into his second term, he’s fulfilled those promises. Now, Trump is attacking public media by eliminating federal funding for NPR and […]
After Boeing Delays, Trump Is Getting a Secondhand Plane for Air Force One
Since his first administration, Donald Trump has obsessed over replacing Air Force One. However, delays with the contracted Boeing have pushed delivery back by another decade. Now, Trump’s impatience is showing as he’s commissioned an interim plane from another contractor on top of the existing multi-billion contract with Boeing. In 2018, Trump commissioned Boeing, which […]
Trump and DOGE Are Destroying U.S. Public Health Agencies From the Inside Out
President Donald Trump isn’t done ripping the country’s public health agencies to shreds. The Trump administration, via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has reportedly ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cut over a third of its spending on contracts by mid-April. The New York Times first reported Wednesday on the severe […]