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A Biden-appointed judge is blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) probe into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters over its alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups to launch advertiser boycotts of X, arguing that the Trump administration is trying to stifle the group’s freedom of speech.

The Trump administration continues to explore taking an equity stake in chipmaker Intel, with the latest reports putting the potential ownership position at 10 percent. This could make the U.S. government the company’s largest shareholder. At the same time, Japanese investment powerhouse SoftBank is pumping $2 billion into the chipmaker.

The United Kingdom (UK) agreed Tuesday to drop its demand that Apple provide Americans’ encrypted data. President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed the backdown.

Volkswagen is now offering owners of its ID.3 EV hatchback the option to boost their car’s performance — for a monthly subscription fee. Instead of following the traditional model of offering improved performance through upgraded components, VW has locked its car’s true potential behind a software subscription.

Comedian Kathy Griffin revealed that she has downloaded the dating app Hinge in order to find herself a date, adding, “I have a lot of fear about men, the entire gender.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) last Friday announced an investigation into if Meta’s AI bots enabled “criminal harms to children.”

A semi-truck transporting eight Tesla EVs caught fire on the 5 Freeway in Los Angeles, leading to extensive road closures and significant traffic disruptions on Saturday evening. The Los Angeles Fire Department has not disclosed the cause of the inferno that required a massive team of firefighters to put out.

Elon Musk’s reliance on selling regulatory credits to boost Tesla’s bottom line is coming to an end as the U.S. government eliminates subsidies and fines related to fuel economy standards. Tesla has amassed an amazing $11.8 billion from the sales of regulatory credits to carmakers.

Veteran rocker Neil Young is parting ways with Facebook. His departure comes in the wake of a report noting the social media giant’s internal policies on artificial intelligence allegedly enable bots to hold “romantic or sensual” chats with child users.

Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “Godfather of AI,” is calling on researchers to design AI systems with built-in nurturing instincts, arguing this is necessary to keep humanity safe as machines surpass human-level intelligence. The AI expert believes machines must be trained to “care for us, like we’re babies.”

Elon Musk’s Tesla is taking initial steps to bring its autonomous robotaxi service to New York City, posting jobs for prototype vehicle operators to collect data for its self-driving software.

A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior met the dark side of artificial intelligence when he died while attempting to get together with an attractive AI chatbot he thought was living in New York City.

In India’s film, gaming, and TV industries, producers are replacing human actors with AI generated voices.

The government of Qatar has blocked access to the popular gaming platform Roblox after a storm of complaints on social media about the safety of children playing the games. 

America’s banking community is fighting back against a fintech, crypto-led letter to President Donald Trump, accusing fintech of trying to “mislead” the administration into backing Biden-era policies and “free ride” off of major banks.

Democrats and the anti-Trump media are falsely claiming the Trump antitrust team has abandoned “MAGA antitrust” because of a few mundane approvals of mergers that Joe Biden’s political appointees and career staff opposed.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) has filed a lawsuit against massively popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing the company of failing to implement adequate safety measures to shield its young users from sexual predators.

The Trump administration is reportedly in discussions to buy a stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel to help shore up the company’s delayed factory project in Ohio, according to people familiar with the plan.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has come under fire after an internal document revealed that its chatbots were permitted to engage in “sensual” conversations with children. According to the AI standards document, Meta felt it was appropriate to tell an eight-year-old boy that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”

Senior lawyer in Australia apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent judgments.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that it has made an initial selection of 11 projects to develop high-tech nuclear test reactors, part of the Trump administration’s ambitious plans to rebuild a domestic nuclear supply chain and quadruple U.S. nuclear energy output by 2050.

Top fintech and crypto companies on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to stop American banks from charging fees for customer data.

Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday to launch his own venture capital firm, Babuschkin Ventures.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman is preparing to back a new company called Merge Labs that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink in connecting human brains with computers.

Conservative strategy firm Targeted Victory claims it has caught Google flagging Republican fundraising emails as “dangerous” spam while leaving similar Democratic solicitations unaffected.

Illinois has banned AI from acting as a therapist for human users, joining Nevada and Utah in regulating the emergence of chatbots in mental health.

Russian hackers are likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam in Norway in April which affected water flows, police said.

The founder of a powerful artificial intelligence system that could be set to replace human workers in the entertainment industry is predicting a “radically different” world for content creation thanks to the introduction of AI tools.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam has revealed that AI chatbots, when placed in a simple social media structure, tend to self-organize based on their pre-assigned affiliations and create echo chambers, even in the absence of content discovery algorithms. 

Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot, Grok, has repeatedly claimed this week that President Donald Trump is Washington D.C.’s “most notorious criminal.”

Gaming giant Roblox has banned and threatened to sue a YouTuber known for confronting alleged predators on the online gaming platform. Roblox, massively popular with children and teens, has a troubled past filled with allegations of grooming and allowing predators to run rampant.

The U.S. State Department has found that the human rights situation in the United Kingdom has deteriorated over the past year, pointing to the growing level of censorship from the government.

AI startup Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited offer to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for a staggering $34.5 billion. The offer follows the DOJ’s push to force Google to spin off its browser following last year’s antitrust lawsuit focused on Google Search.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced the relaunch of the agency’s Guidance Portal, a website to allow Americans a one-stop shop for regulatory guidance documents as part of the Trump administration’s mission to increase transparency, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) instructed employees in a memo on Tuesday not to use “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures.