Trump Administration

Trump’s national security advisor reportedly used his personal Gmail account to do government work

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Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security advisor, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government officials. The report follows last week’s news that several cabinet-level officials, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed highly […]

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Trump’s national security adviser reportedly used his personal Gmail account to do government work

Security /

Senior members of the Trump administration’s National Security Council — including its top national security adviser, Michael Waltz — used Gmail to conduct government business, The Washington Post reported, citing documents and three unnamed government officials. The report follows last week’s news that several cabinet-level officials, including the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, discussed highly

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UnitedHealth removes mentions of DEI from its website

Government & Policy /

UnitedHealth Group has scrubbed much of its website mentioning its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, including pulling down blog posts and removing large sections from its website, TechCrunch has learned. According to archived copies of UnitedHealth’s website, several of the company’s web pages dedicated to DEI no longer load and now redirect to a

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JD Vance claims freeing AI from regulation is good for American workers and tech innovators

Government & Policy /

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration’s support of AI and tech innovations should benefit both populists and those investing and leading tech companies.  “I think there’s too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so many of the things that we do now,” said Vance at

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Former NSA official says federal worker cuts will have ‘devastating impact’ on cyber and national security

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Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Agency until retiring in 2024, was providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party,

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Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts

Government & Policy /

The Trump Administration has fired a number of National Science Foundation employees who had been handpicked for their expertise in AI, threatening the agency’s ability to sustain key AI research, Bloomberg reported. One of the affected departments inside NSF, called the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, was instrumental in funneling government grants focused on

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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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NIH funding uncertainty spurs new biotech venture fund

Biotech & Health /

Earlier this month, the Trump administration directed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to impose limits on specific types of funding it provides to research institutions. Although a federal judge has temporarily blocked the policy change, government grants to early-stage biotech startups could still face delays or be eliminated entirely, said Chris Gibson, co-founder and

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