Google is finally opening the Play Store to outside payments
Google is finally opening the Play Store to outside payments

While the court still hasn’t signed off on the massive settlement resolving Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google for having a monopoly over Android’s app store with Google Play, the tech giant says it will start rolling out changes to the way it handles billing for developers worldwide. As announced in March, the flat 30 percent […]

The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw
The $27 million Al proxy war over Alex Bores ends in a draw

The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pro-AI super PAC, narrowly lost the Democratic primary to represent New York’s 12th Congressional district. Prior to the race, Bores, a former […]

Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election
Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election

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AI’s Empire: The Limits Of Knowledge, And Predicting The Job Future

How much can the job future be predicted? A new Commission on AI and the American Workforce seeks to avoid the miscalculations of previous “future of work” efforts.

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit […]

The Fastest-Growing Energy Source Under The Sun

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at an audacious plan for floating, ocean-powered data centers and GM’s pursuit of cheaper battery technologies.

Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Last year, […]

Nina Schwalbe In Run For Congress Finds These Barriers To Scientists

Longtime public health professional and leader Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD, is running to succeed retiring U.S. Rep Jerry Nadler in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District.

As Nurses Lose Student Loans, Your Healthcare Could Suffer

A new law limits federal loans to aspiring nurse practitioners to $20,500 a year—less than half what would-be podiatrists, chiropractors and optometrists can borrow.

T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’
T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile’s media relations manager. If you’ve been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you’ll know that Trump Mobile doesn’t exactly keep open lines of […]