Elon Musk’s business empire has been rocked by a wave of high-level executive departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s intense management style and interests outside of business shake the ranks of his formerly loyal acolytes.
Microsoft hosts ready-to-use political censorship software on its Azure Marketplace in China, further evidence of how the company has aided the development and implementation of the country’s repressive system of political control.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon argues that AI will impact “literally every job,” explaining that his company plans to keep its global head count roughly flat while AI changes job composition, training needs, and day‑to‑day tasks across its massive operations.
Ford and General Motors have introduced new programs aimed at extending the use of the $7,500 U.S. tax credit on electric vehicle leases beyond the subsidy’s expiration date. EV companies including Tesla have been desperate to secure car sales before the expiration of the tax credit, demonstrating their importance in the EV buying decision.
Daniel Ek will step down as CEO of Spotify, the streaming music giant known for censoring conservatives and squabbling with artists over royalties. Ek will become executive chairman as his top executives Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström take over as co-CEOs on January 1, 2026.
The once-promising field of computer science is experiencing a significant shift, leaving even top graduates from elite schools like UC Berkeley struggling to find employment, according to a leading professor in the field.
Vice President J.D. Vance expressed confidence that the Trump administration’s TikTok deal will effectively separate the app from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and ensure the security of U.S. users’ data.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has accused rival Sam Altman’s OpenAI of stealing trade secrets with the help of former Musk employees, according to new court filings.
James Baker, the FBI’s top lawyer during Russiagate and later a key operative inside Twitter’s pre-Musk censorship apparatus, has resurfaced on the board of a fresh institutional effort to lock down online speech.
Meta is set to launch paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom. The UK government welcomes the option of a paid social media subscription, saying that it “moves Meta away from targeting users with ads as part of the standard terms and conditions for using its Facebook and Instagram services, which we’ve been clear is not in line with UK law.”
Florida has filed lawsuits against pornographic gaming platform Nutaku and payment processor Segpay, alleging they violated the state’s age verification law.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is calling on the EPA to uphold the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, warning that repealing these standards threatens the electric automaker’s investments and its alleged fight against “climate change.” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has labeled the rules as the “holy grail of the climate change religion.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday approving a proposed deal that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States. The deal is not final until China agrees to it — but details of the new operation are taking shape.
Microsoft has announced that it has stopped providing cloud services and AI tools to a division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, following an investigation into a report from the Guardian about the IDF’s Unit 8200 building a system for tracking Palestinians’ phone calls.
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations that the company “tricked and trapped” consumers into signing up for Prime memberships and hindered their attempts to cancel the subscription. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, “The Trump-Vance FTC is committed to fighting back when companies try to cheat ordinary Americans out of their hard-earned pay.”
OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, has released research exposing the potential for AI models to engaged in “AI scheming” by intentionally lying to humans, raising concerns about how people chatbots in every from the workplace to education.
Intel has reportedly approached Apple about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker as part of efforts to strengthen a business that is now partially owned by the U.S. government.
A cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover has led to a halt at its plants for nearly a month that has caused a production loss of about 30,000, with analysts warning that a full restart could take much longer and have far-reaching consequences for the company and its suppliers.
NASA has announced that its Artemis 2 mission, which will send a crew of four astronauts around the Moon, is on track to launch as early as February 5, 2026, with additional launch windows in March and April.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced the launch of a new super PAC aimed at electing state candidates from both parties who support the company’s stance on AI development and regulation. According to the company, the American Technology Excellence Project super PAC is launching “amid a growing patchwork of inconsistent regulations that threaten homegrown innovation and investments in AI.”
Nvidia has announced a massive $100 billion investment in OpenAI, sending ripples through the tech industry and boosting shares of semiconductor companies globally.
The Secret Service has uncovered a vast network of over 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers in the New York area, believed to be used by foreign “nation-state threat actors” and criminals for swatting calls targeting prominent conservatives and potentially disabling cell phone towers. The amount of hardware seized in the bust could be used to hamper cell service in New York City.
The FTC and Amazon are headed to trial over the government’s accusations that the tech giant deceives consumers into signing up for its Prime subscription service and makes it difficult for them to cancel their memberships.
Oracle will recreate and secure TikTok’s recommendation algorithm for the U.S. market as part of the popular Chinese-owned app’s sale to a group of American investors, according to a Bloomberg report.
The DOJ is seeking to break up Google’s advertising technology monopoly in the remedy phase of the government’s ad tech antitrust trial set to begin Monday in Virginia federal court. Google survived the previous Search antitrust trial with a slap on the wrist — a far cry from the forced sale of Chrome and other remedies the government sought.
OpenAI has announced plans to develop an automated age-prediction system to determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, following a lawsuit related to a teen’s suicide. The teen’s parents claim that Sam Altman’s AI chatbot served as the boy’s “suicide coach.”
Library patrons are requesting non-existent books and media hallucinated by AI systems, leading librarians around the country on a wild good chase. The unlikely source for the non-existent books are reading lists published by major newspapers that mixed in AI-generated titles with the real thing.
Leftist echo chamber Reddit is seeking to renegotiate its data-sharing agreement with Google, aiming for more users and revenue in exchange for the user content it provides to train AI models.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is rethinking the design of its iconic flush door handles following reports of children getting trapped inside vehicles and mounting regulatory pressure.
The FTC has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster, accusing the online ticket broker of raking in profits through excessive fees and turning a blind eye to bots illegally reselling millions of tickets to customers.
Grieving parents testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism this week, raising alarms about the dangers AI chatbots pose to children after their own kids suffered severe trauma and even suicide due to interactions with AI companions.
Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software has come under scrutiny as multiple Tesla owners report incidents of their vehicles failing to recognize and respond appropriately to oncoming trains at railroad crossings.
AI powerhouse Nvidia has announced a $5 billion investment in Intel, marking a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating advancements in artificial intelligence and personal computing. Intel shares have surged almost 24 percent at market open in response.
Reuters published a false claim linking Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the “far-right” – and then tried to cover it up, editing the original article without informing readers of the change, according to the Foundation for Freedom Online.
Fired DOJ antitrust official Roger Alford has been portraying himself as a “genuine MAGA reformer” who supported “President Trump’s populist conservative agenda,” which he claims was undermined by “MAGA In Name Only” lobbyists. However, he recently appeared on a podcast to attack the Trump FCC and FTC for going after DEI and censorship.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has settled two lawsuits related to fatal crashes in California involving its Autopilot driver-assistance software, according to recent court documents.
The mother of a 15-year-old boy from California has filed a lawsuit against online gaming platforms Roblox and Discord, alleging that her son was groomed and coerced into sending explicit images on the apps before tragically taking his own life.
A consortium of investors including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz, is nearing a deal to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, as President Trump extends the deadline for banning the app to December 16.
The rapid pace of AI development and the impacts the technology are already having on employment, education, and mental health have underscored the fact that the future of artificial intelligence is not a black and white issue for conservatives. Many people within the MAGA coalition have nuanced views including concerns about safety, especially AI’s impact on children. To better understand conservative thinking on AI, Politico turned to Breitbart News’ Wynton Hall to address what he calls the “trillion-dollar question” of artificial intelligence.
Game publisher Bethesda, owned by Microsoft, is facing backlash after posting and later deleting a short video clip that is a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
