Trump Administration

Grammy Award-winning singer Ariana Grande has publicly condemned the White House for using her 2024 chartbuster “Bye” in a TikTok video that depicts ICE agents making arrests. According to Reuters, Grande expressed her disapproval in a comment on the TikTok post earlier this week,...

Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google Quantum AI turned down funding from the Trump administration for its quantum computing initiative, citing “conditions” that would have slowed down its progress. Charina Chou, Chief Operating Officer of Google Quantum AI,...

Rene Haas, CEO of Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM), has voiced doubts over the feasibility of the U.S. imposing restrictions on the export of AI CPU chips to China. In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Haas expressed that it would be a significant challenge to halt the export of CPUs to...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) praised the Trump administration for its efforts to combat widespread government fraud, which he claims costs taxpayers up to $500 billion annually. Paul took to X on Tuesday to acknowledge the comments made by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during an April interview...

SpaceX has secured a $2.29 billion contract from the U.S. Space Force entailing the construction of a high-speed satellite communications network, the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone. The SDN Backbone is a resilient network architecture built to deliver high-capacity, low-latency data...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has expressed concerns that Alberta’s proposed referendum could trigger a crisis similar to Brexit for Canada. Carney labeled the proposed referendum by Premier Danielle Smith as “a very dangerous bluff.” The referendum,...

(Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include details from the LOIs signed by the companies) Shares of Infleqtion Inc.(NYSE:INFQ) surged 25.4%, while D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) and Rigetti Computing Inc. (NASDAQ:RGTI) surged 17.65% and 14.58%, respectively, in Thursday's pre-...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has criticized Big Tech for its contradictory stance on AI automation and the continued use of H-1B visas for cheaper foreign labor. On Monday, DeSantis took to X to express his disapproval of tech companies forecasting the demise of white-collar...

Defense companies are reportedly urging the Trump Administration to delay an impending deadline that forbids them from procuring rare earth magnets from China for U.S. military contracts. The firms are requesting more time to adhere to the ban on Chinese samarium cobalt magnets and...

Vice President JD Vance has announced a series of measures to combat fraud in federal health programs, including a significant deferral of $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding to California. Vance, acting as the fraud czar, highlighted California’s perceived lax approach to fraud as the...

The Trump administration announced that it would loan 53.3 million barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to energy companies to counteract high crude oil prices amid the Iran war. The loan is part of a global agreement aimed at stabilizing the oil...

The Trump administration on Sunday proposed a new rule aimed at making fertility treatments such as IVF more accessible through employer-sponsored benefits. The proposal from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury would create a new category of "limited excepted benefits...

AI productivity might be a viable solution to America’s $39 trillion national debt crisis, according to a Yale Budget Lab report. However, it also warned that achieving this would require specific action from the government. Government Worker Aid May Offset Gains The study, released on...

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and Elon Musk’s xAI have pledged to grant the U.S. government early access to their latest artificial intelligence models to facilitate preliminary national security risk assessments. The...

In the face of the ongoing Iran war, which has disrupted over a fifth of the global energy supply, the U.S. economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience, according to an economist. Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of trade policy and economics at Cornell University attributed this resilience to...