President Trump announces his intention to sign an executive order that would restrict states from enacting their own regulations on AI. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something,” Trump said. Read more from [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #Technology #AI #Trump #Politics #USA #ArtificialIntelligence
ChatGPT’s paying subscribers complained about seeing promotional messages in the app. Maybe the suggestions just looked like ads. Read more from [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #AI #ChatGPT #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo will file a voluntary software recall after reports that its self-driving taxis illegally passed stopped school buses. Read more from [@npr]( ): https://flip.it/wN17vA #Tech #Waymo #Transportation #Driving #Technology #SelfDriving
Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy Z Trifold “holds the promise of an entirely new way to use our phones,” reporter Jamie Richards writes. Don’t think for a minute this doesn’t put pressure on Apple. Read more from [@TechRadar]( ): #Tech #Samsung #SamsungGalaxy #Apple #iPhone #Technology
ChatGPT has seen its global monthly active users climb by 180% year-over-year as of November 2025, but is that growth slowing down? [@Techcrunch]( ) has more: #Tech #AI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
Time for a new thing to be terrified about! Research published in the journals Nature and Science found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. And the most persuasive models said the most untrue things. Here's more from Technology Review. #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Politics #USPolitics
The European Union has announced it is fining Elon Musk's X platform $140 million, saying it breached the Digital Services Act. The 2022 law requires internet companies to aggressively combat hate speech and misinformation. The U.S. government has condemned the move, and while Musk has not as yet addressed it, he has shared an X post advocating for a U.S. bill that would allow companies to sue foreign entities over censorship claims. Here's more from NBC. #EuropeanUnion #ElonMusk #X #Technology #DigitalServicesAct #Misinformation
Reddit is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, CEO Steve Huffman says. “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone." Huffman says it will be replaced with "better, more relevant and personalized feeds." Here's more from [@theverge]( ). #Technology #Tech #Reddit #SocialMedia
It's all change at Apple as design chief Alan Dye leaves the company for Meta. For his blog, artist and designer @Louie Mantia, Jr. writes about how this, and the departure of iPhone designer Jony Ive in 2019, might not be a bad thing. Why? Under their tenure, Manton argues, "Apple shifted away from making products 'for the rest of us' and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people." #Technology #Tech #Apple #JonyIve #AlanDye #Design #IndustrialDesign #iPhone
The U.S. State Department is instructing its staff to reject H-1B visa applications from anyone who has worked on fact-checking or content moderation, according to an internal memo sent this week. "If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. Here's more from [@npr]( ). https://flip.it/qhqfrq #Technology #Tech #USGovernment #USNews #TrumpAdministration