New tariffs could be on the horizon, this time on Silicon Valley. Donald Trump said Friday that his administration will open a trade investigation into the European Union after regulators fined Google about $1 billion, an investigation that could pave the way for new high tariffs on the bloc. In a Truth Social post, Trump
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a
For 19-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, there is no middle ground. Either build a company as valuable as Google, he says, or fail and end up on the street. He started coding at age 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and DMed every Y Combinator founder he could find
Defense technology company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may increase its valuation to between $40 billion and about $100 billion, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. The company, which raised $5 billion in May at a valuation of $61 billion (roughly double the $30.5 billion valuation it garnered in
The US Department of Justice is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing US border authorities with a password that deleted the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is believed to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for allegedly destroying data
Waymo is reportedly seeking an exit from its deal with Uber, which has made the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxis available on the ride-hailing giant’s network in Austin and Atlanta, according to the Financial Times. Waymo has already told Uber that it intends to offer robotaxis on its own app in those markets starting in January 2028
