Meta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge.
Proclaiming a new American “Golden Age,” Trump consolidated power hours into his new term, wielding massive executive authority in seeking to obliterate large chunks of Joe Biden’s legacy and showing he plans to learn from his first-term failures to pull off a transformational presidency.
The future of TikTok in the United States has been a topic of significant debate, particularly in light of national security concerns related to its Chinese ownership. Under Trump's first presidency,
Donald Trump issued executive orders targeting immigrants, transgender Americans, the climate, and the Constitution.
Tech leaders should have a visible presence at Trump’s inauguration, with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Shou Zi Chew, Sundar Pichai, and Sam Altman all reported to be present. Musk is also scheduled to speak at a pre-inauguration rally, and Zuckerberg will reportedly host a black-tie event on Inauguration Day.
President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation .
While all the focus during US President Donald Trump's inauguration was on tariffs, the sight of four tech titans at the ceremony should have put another economic policy on the radar: Tax.
You have to draw the line somewhere. And for me the line is the first five days. I mean, how is anyone supposed to keep up with the torrent of news coming out of Trump White House?
The Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Tech in 2025 — The view from Silicon Valley’
US President Donald Trump’s recent foray into the memecoin market drove Google search interest for the term “crypto” to its highest level since 2021. On Jan. 18, Trump launched an official ...