Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies.
Biden Administration Sprints to Tie Up Tech Loose Ends
Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
How Crypto Insiders Turned ‘Debanking’ Into a Political Storm
Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
Why Luigi Mangione’s Reddit and Instagram Were Taken Down, but Not His Goodreads?
Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. When do companies scrub a digital trail?
Russia takes unusual route to hack Starlink-connected devices in Ukraine
Russian nation-state hackers have followed an unusual path to gather intel in the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine—appropriating the infrastructure of fellow threat actors and using it to infect electronic devices its adversary’s military personnel are using on the front line. On at least two occasions this year, the Russian hacking group tracked under names...
Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features
On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release called Gemini 2.0 Flash. The model family can generate text, images, and speech while processing multiple types of input including text, images, audio, and video. It’s similar to multimodal AI models like GPT-4o, which powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT....
GM to Shut Down Its Cruise Robotaxi Project
The company said it would now focus its efforts on developing fully autonomous vehicles for personal use.
Biden Administration Sprints to Tie Up Tech Loose Ends
Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
How Crypto Insiders Turned ‘Debanking’ Into a Political Storm
Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)