Every major government now has an AI strategy. Most involve pilot programmes, task forces, and multi-year roadmaps that promise transformation without specifying a deadline. Dubai has taken a different approach. On Sunday, Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bi…
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which soun…
Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Mod…
The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights at 3AM ET on Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to airports, with air traffic control records capturing controllers and pilots signing off to each other as its last flights […]
The Turnberry Agreement was supposed to be the floor. Signed at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland last July, the deal between the United States and the European Union set a 15 per cent tariff ceiling on nearly all EU goods entering America, includ…
Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This time we’ve discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release. Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on its slow […]
The Pentagon announced on 1 May that it has signed agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence on classified military networks. The deals bring the total number of compa…
When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 27 March, following weeks of US and Israeli air strikes, Brent crude hit $126 a barrel and the World Bank warned that energy prices would surge by 24 per cent, the largest increase since the Russia-Ukraine shock…