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Benioff Retreats on National Guard After Elite Backlash Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff learned that $1 billion in local donations doesn't buy permission to call federal troops into San Francisco—not when 25-year friendships end and fellow billionaires publish...

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Meta Poaches AI Startup Co-Founder After $2B Raise Meta hired Thinking Machines co-founder Andrew Tulloch weeks after the startup raised $2 billion and shipped its first product. The timing reveals a brutal dynamic: even well-funded AI startups can't ...

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Meta's Talent War, Dutch Takeover, Tech Politics Meta paid billions to steal a co-founder. Netherlands seized a Chinese chipmaker. Silicon Valley turned right. Four stories about power and money.

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Tech's Trump Turn Was About Money, Not Woke: New Book Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money. When free credit ended in 2022 and regulators pushed back, tech billion...

Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money.

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$2B Nvidia Chip Probe Meets China Rare Earth Ban $2B in Nvidia chips found boxed in Malaysian warehouse. China announced rare earth export controls days later. Supply chains turned into bargaining chips.

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$2B in Nvidia chips bought through Singapore shell with Chinese roots. China announces rare-earth export controls days later. Both moves land before Trump-Xi talks. This isn't enforcement. It's negotiation. Each side pressing the other's supply-chain bruise. www.implicator.ai/u-s-probes-2...

Sunak Advises Rival AI Firms as Watchdog Rules Face Test Rishi Sunak will advise rival AI giants Microsoft and Anthropic under ringfencing rules approved by a watchdog closing in days. The appointments test whether political expertise compounds across compe...

Rishi Sunak will advise rival AI giants Microsoft and Anthropic under ringfencing rules approved by a watchdog closing in days. The appointments test whether political expertise compounds across competitors as market warnings mount and enforcement weakens.

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OpenAI Flags Microsoft to EU Regulators Despite Investment OpenAI complained to EU regulators about Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct—despite Microsoft being its largest investor with $13 billion committed. The move signals OpenAI's shift from AI supplier t...

OpenAI complained to EU regulators about Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct despite Microsoft being its largest investor with $13 billion committed. The move signals OpenAI's shift from AI supplier to platform owner using regulators as leverage.

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