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Since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump has touted corporate and foreign US investment announcements as proof he is ushering in “the golden age of America”. On January 21, Trump said that before he’d finished the “first full business day” of his second term, the United States had “already secured nearly $3 trillion of new investments”. On April 2, he said, “It looks like we’re going to have about $6 trillion of investments”. Six days later, Trump told National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner attendees that the investment total was “now revised up to about $7 (trillion)”. During…

President Donald Trump has fired Shira Perlmutter, who leads the U.S. Copyright Office. The firing was reported by CBS News and Politico, and seemingly confirmed by a statement from Representative Joe Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee for House Administration. “Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” Morelle said. “It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.” Perlmutter took over the Copyright Office in 2020, during…

In a recent TV interview, United States President Donald Trump said he did not know whether he needed to uphold the US Constitution. Trump was answering a question on NBC News last week about whether undocumented immigrants in the US are entitled to due process. “They talk about due process, but do you get due process when you’re here illegally,” Trump asked the interviewer, Kristen Welker, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator. “The Constitution says every person, citizens and noncitizens, deserves due process,” Welker responded. She then asked Trump whether he agreed with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said noncitizens…

OpenAI is currently in “a tough negotiation” with its biggest investor and partner, Microsoft, according to the Financial Times. The AI startup recently announced a major change to its corporate restructuring plans — while it still aims to convert its business arm into a for-profit public benefit corporation, its nonprofit board will remain in control. The FT says it spoke to multiple sources who describe Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion in OpenAI to date, as a key holdout needed to approve the restructuring. While the crux of the negotiation is how much equity Microsoft will receive in the new…

Data shows that about 80 percent of all toys and 90 percent of Christmas goods sold in the US are manufactured in China.By Loreben Tuquero│PolitiFactPublished On 11 May 202511 May 2025Whether you are gift-wrapping a toy car or hanging Christmas ornaments, there is a strong chance you are handling products made in a Chinese factory. The day after President Donald Trump spoke in an interview about his tariff policies that girls in the United States do not need to “have 30 dolls”, some political commentators discussed China’s influence over the US toy market. The US currently has a 145 percent tariff…

Polish cyclist Paweł Małaszko, aiming to be the first person to cycle to the K2 base camp from Karachi, started the final leg of his journey on Sunday. Małaszko, Aged 46, is cycling to the base camp as part of his adventure to cycle across Pakistan — from the shores of the Arabian Sea to the K2 base camp, the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court provided a permit to the Polish cyclist to complete his adventure earlier this month. The legal battle between tour operators and GB tourism departments had stopped the issuance of mountaineering and trekking permits for foreigners. Talking to…

The tech industry seems to have two thoughts when it comes to where human workers fit into the AI-powered world they are creating: Either they think that all the jobs, except perhaps their own, will be done by bots. (VC Marc Andreessen seems to think that his work as an investor could never be automated).  Or they think that bots will do the icky, boring work, acting as human companions in jobs while humans do brand-new jobs that the bot revolution creates. The latter is the one most supported by historical evidence. The World Economic Forum predicts that 92 million…

Lyft is about to enter the increasingly competitive world of robotaxis.The ride-hailing company said Friday that users will be able to take rides in self-driving cars starting this summer, with autonomous vehicles first hitting the streets of Atlanta.The rollout will be done in partnership with May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle company. Its  self-driving technology will be installed in Toyota Sienna minivans that users will have the chance to take rides in.A Lyft spokesperson added that the company’s next stop will be Dallas, where the company is also aiming to deploy self-driving vehicles in partnership with the companies Mobileye and Marubeni…

A court filing in the multibillion-dollar college sports lawsuit argues the proposed remedy for the roster-limit rule holding up the case does not go far enough in protecting walk-on and other athletes who lost their spots when schools started cutting players in anticipation of the settlement being approved.Attorneys for Michigan walk-on football player John Weidenbach and Yale rower Grace Menke filed a brief last week responding to the proposal that any athlete who had lost a spot because of the roster-limit rule not count against the cap when it goes in place next school year.It’s the roster caps that have…

GUANGZHOU: France’s mixed relay team competes in the 4x400m heat of the World Athletics Relays on Saturday.—AFP GUANGZHOU: Italy, Canada and Jamaica reached the mixed 4×100 metres relay final in the event’s global debut while heavyweights the United States experienced mixed fortunes on a dramatic opening day at the World Athletics Relays on Saturday. Victory in 41.15 seconds in the first heat amid challenging conditions in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou following a spell of rain earned the Italians a place in the medal round to be held on Sunday. They will be joined by France, who finished second…