On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app's message-editing feature.

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.

The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms, including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.