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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE

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Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement […]

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Trump signs executive order to expand DOGE’s spending review powers

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In a newly issued executive order (EO), the Trump Administration has instructed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-advised initiative to reduce federal spending, to create a “centralized technological system” in every agency to record contract and grant awards. As part of the ramp-up of these systems, agency employees who approved individual contract

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Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far

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Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize,” DEI programs deemed illegal in private sector companies that receive

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DOGE has an official ‘acting’ administrator, and it’s not Elon Musk, White House confirms

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Amy Gleason has been named as the acting administrator of DOGE, the ostensible head of the Trump Administration team of Elon Musk advisors and associates known as the Department of Government Efficiency, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news, first reported by Semafor, is the first time the White House has confirmed who is overseeing the team

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IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK

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The U.K.’s antitrust authority has given the go-ahead to IBM’s planned multibillion acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp. In a brief case update published today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had “cleared the anticipated acquisition by IBM of HashiCorp,” and it would publish the full rationale for its decision in due course.

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Apple commits $500B to US manufacturing, including a new AI server facility in Houston

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The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in line. On Monday, Apple laid out its own plans in that area: it will spend $500 billion over the next four years in areas like high-end manufacturing, engineering, and

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Palantir CEO’s new book says Silicon Valley has ‘lost its way’

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Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp opens his new book with a provocative declaration: “Silicon Valley has lost its way.” Over the past decade or so, as the data analytics company rose to prominence with its work for U.S. military and intelligence, Karp has largely stayed out of the limelight. Last year, in a rare

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Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide

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The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to

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