“I think social media is the worst thing that’s happened in the last forty years,” Steve Krug tells me. A quarter of a century ago, Krug wrote “Don’t Make Me Think,” one of the founding books on Internet usability. It’s why sites have large bold text and are read vertically, without moving across the screen.
The Trump administration has banned imports of new advanced robots from China. VCG/VCG via Getty Images The Trump administration has announced a ban on the entry of new Chinese humanoid robots into the United States. Officials say the robots pose “unacceptable security risks” to national security. Some policy experts have expressed full approval of the
The Trump administration is expanding its technology crackdown on China. The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced new restrictions targeting imports of advanced Chinese robots and power inverters, as part of a broader push to secure the domestic AI supply chain. According to the FCC, the measure would ban imports of new Chinese-made humanoid and
ServiceNow has been cutting several hundred jobs as part of a global restructuring, the latest sign of pressure on the software industry. A ServiceNow spokesperson said a “low-single-digit” percentage of the company’s total staff has been affected by the cuts, which have occurred for several months this year. ServiceNow ended 2025 with 29,187 employees, so
About a decade ago, Tesla entered its era of home solar with its controversial acquisition of SolarCity. Now, Tesla’s solar dreams are taking a different shape as the company enters its AI era. Tesla has signed two long-term agreements to purchase power from utility-scale solar projects totaling about 600 megawatts of planned capacity. ContourGlobal, a
Top officials at some of the country’s top AI companies say it’s time for the federal government to find a way to slow AI development if necessary. “We request that the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools necessary to deliberately advance the frontier of automated AI development,” reads
