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TikTok and tariffs loom over Trump’s phone call with Xi Jinping: ‘We’re very close to deals on all of it’

"My relationship with China is very good," Trump said in an interview with Fox News.

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Jessica Mathews

Scott Kupor is Trump’s new head of workforce efficiency. This is how he plans to handle the elimination of 300,000 federal jobs

The former managing partner of venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, weighs in on running OPM, federal layoffs, and AI.

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Jessica Mathews

Waymo says it will partner with Lyft for a robotaxi debut in Nashville next year

The robotaxi giant is keeping options open on who it wants to work with as it attempts to scale its service around the country.

17.09.2025 2

Jessica Mathews

Tech investing is already a wild ride. Abandoning quarterly reports could make it even wilder

Less frequent reporting by public companies could mean better long-term decision-making, or more wild speculation—or both.

17.09.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Social media could use more moderation

Social media platforms are pushing violent content to us—even when we're unprepared to see it.

16.09.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

One of the most common reasons that AI products fail? Bad data

Executives at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech warned that you need to start with fundamentals before rolling out a complex new AI agent.

13.09.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Tunneling halted at Boring Company job site in Las Vegas after ‘crushing injury’ of worker reported

The injured worker is “reported to be stable,” according to the local Fire Department.

11.09.2025 2

Jessica Mathews

‘We’ve never had a fundraising deck’: Here’s where venture capital stands now and where it’s going next

VCs debate whether we are in an AI bubble—and what the next few years will look like.

10.09.2025 40

Jessica Mathews

The CEO of U.S.-made electric truck company Slate says removal of EV tax credit is ‘opening up capacity’ from battery suppliers

The buzzy new EV company said it is evaluating whether that may be able to help the company offer better pricing.

10.09.2025 2

Jessica Mathews

Lyft CEO says company will save $200M in insurance costs from California worker unionization deal

Lyft CEO David Risher said the recent deal paving the way for ride-hailing drivers to form unions is a win-win, and that the company will pass the...

09.09.2025 4

Jessica Mathews

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says path to autonomous deliveries filled with ‘lots of pain and suffering’ but company is nearing first inning of commercial progress

DoorDash, which has been working on autonomy and robotics technology since about 2017, is currently doing drone deliveries in Australia and is...

09.09.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says U.S. labor workers won’t lose their jobs to AI—‘it’s not true’

The company has launched a new storytelling project Karp hopes will change the narrative around AI, and the CEO says it is one of his “biggest...

06.09.2025 7

Jessica Mathews

Tesla self driving cars are being tested in Boring Co. tunnels in Las Vegas, but full autonomy is still ‘a ways off,’ Convention Center exec says

The testing features safety drivers in the driver’s seat, and began prior to Tesla’s robotaxi launch in Austin.

27.08.2025 3

Jessica Mathews

18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed

Noland Arbaugh, who lost movement and sensation below his shoulders in 2016, became P1 at Neuralink in 2024 and it’s opened up a host of...

23.08.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

Waymo experimenting with generative AI, but exec says LiDAR and radar sensors important to self-driving safety ‘under all conditions’

Waymo is experimenting with generative AI, but its current approach is a stark contrast to one of its newer rivals, Tesla.

16.08.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

How Palantir—a company too small to make the Fortune 500—became one of the world’s 25 most valuable companies

The company’s eccentric CEO has led one of the most controversial companies in Silicon Valley to unprecedented success.

07.08.2025 3

Jessica Mathews

With new FAA rule proposal, U.S. drone companies are poised to take flight

The long-awaited rule marks an important milestone for drone companies and startups.

06.08.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk says Tesla will start adding vehicles it doesn’t directly own into its robotaxi network next year

The Austin-based EV company is still working on taking safety drivers out of the passenger seats and expanding into new cities.

24.07.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

The insolvency of Ardian-backed mountain biking company YT Industries underscores just how much tariffs have shaken the biking industry

An industry hot in private equity is becoming less and less so amid supply chain disasters and tariffs.

23.07.2025 6

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk’s latest blending of business interests puts his Grok AI chatbot in Teslas—and raises questions around data and privacy

It’s unclear whether the new partnership will allow xAI to use vehicle data to train its large language models.

19.07.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk spent months slashing federal contracts — Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business

xAI says that it wants to start servicing federal, local, state, and national security customers.

15.07.2025 100

Jessica Mathews

Katie Miller—who left Trump’s White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI

Katie Miller has emerged as a key spokesperson for Musk while her husband, Stephen Miller, remains President Trump's deputy chief of staff.

03.07.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

This India-born founder built a multimillion-dollar spice company after seeing turmeric lattes in California coffee shops. This is how she did it

Sana Javeri Kadri has built a business around small farmers in India.

03.07.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

Ford CEO Jim Farley says Waymo’s approach to self-driving makes more sense than Tesla’s

Farley says that LiDAR is “mission critical.”

28.06.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Ford CEO says new technologies like AI are leaving many workers behind, and companies need a plan

Jim Farley said there needs to be a societal mindset shift, too, where society doesn't look down on blue collar workers.

28.06.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Amazon-owned Zoox just opened a 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to build its robotaxi vehicles in California

It might still take time before the company is able to take advantage of the facility’s size.

18.06.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

Ahead of Tesla robotaxi launch, residents in one Austin neighborhood say Model Ys—with drivers—are circling their blocks over and over

Tesla has been testing its robotaxi fleet in a quiet residential neighborhood in Southeast Austin to the surprise of some residents.

11.06.2025 7

Jessica Mathews

At least 6 Waymo autonomous vehicles have been vandalized amid anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles

Waymo halted service in the downtown Los Angeles area on Monday as the demonstrations continued.

10.06.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Departure of Tesla’s humanoid robot boss caps tough week for Elon Musk, amid bitter fallout with Trump

Milan Kovac said he was leaving to spend more time with family abroad and that his exit "has absolutely nothing to do with anything else," calling...

07.06.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

With massive funding round and $31 billion valuation, Anduril is nearing the size of defense industry giants it wants to displace

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund wrote its largest check ever into the company.

05.06.2025 3

Jessica Mathews

Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg ended their bitter feud to bolster Silicon Valley’s new love affair with the military market

Meta is working with Palmer Luckey again after firing him eight years ago.

30.05.2025 20

Jessica Mathews

Questions swirl as Tesla nears Austin launch day for high stakes driverless robotaxi launch

Austin city departments say they have not received the emergency planning guides they have asked for, and Tesla hasn't specified what level of...

26.05.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Peter Thiel’s deep protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team

Vice President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk are among Thiel's Silicon Valley collaborators that now find themselves in Trump's D.C. circle.

21.05.2025 7

Jessica Mathews

Technological innovation has hinged on science and research funded by the U.S. government. That’s all at risk right now

With the National Science Foundation urging its employees to resign or retire, American innovation is on the line.

07.05.2025 6

Jessica Mathews

GM’s $5B tariff gut punch shows how painful it will be for U.S. automakers to adapt to Trump’s vision

GM executives described various "levers" the carmarker can pull to offset some of the sting of the tariffs, and said the company should benefit from...

02.05.2025 8

Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk says 10 to 20 Tesla Model Ys in Austin will offer paid robotaxi rides in June but gives few tech details — ‘you can just see for yourself in two months’

The Tesla robotaxi service, as stated, would be a significant leap in capability from what is currently available.

23.04.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Battered by tariffs and boycotts, Tesla really needs a successful robotaxi launch—and it needs to be on time

2025 was supposed to be “the biggest year in Tesla history,” but it’s sure not shaking out that way so far.

20.04.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Trump’s tech and science policy chief says Biden led with ‘spirit of fear’ and that today’s progress lags 20th century innovation

In his first remarks since being confirmed as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios said the...

15.04.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Donald Trump’s 29-year-old crypto guru lays out the president’s plans for regulating crypto and rolling back a Biden-era crackdown

Since his appointment, Bo Hines has become a mini-celebrity in the crypto world—with CEOs, billionaire investors, and lobbyists vying for face time.

14.04.2025 4

Jessica Mathews

Here is the agreement DOGE has with the consumer watchdog agency it is cutting up

The CFPB is on the hook for all travel or training expenses incurred as part of the USDS employees assigned to them.

11.04.2025 4

Jessica Mathews

Trump administration’s new AI policies require federal agencies to prioritize American companies for contracts

These memos offer the first policy guidance from the Trump Administration since his executive order requiring federal agencies to take a second look...

09.04.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

History suggests a tariff-induced downturn may cause a reckoning in the venture capital industry

The venture market has been reorienting itself the last three years. It may just be getting started.

08.04.2025 3

Jessica Mathews

Trump appointee Scott Kupor resigns from some a16z funds, boards ahead of confirmation as head of OPM, documents show

The a16z managing partner is resigning from the firm, but will remain a passive investor in about 30 of its funds.

04.04.2025 4

Jessica Mathews

JD Vance has a message for Silicon Valley: The Trump administration is ‘working with you’

The vice president is pledging support to the tech industry and saying this administration is aligned with its interests.

20.03.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Sequoia Capital to cut policy team and shutter Washington, D.C. office just as the tech industry increases its visibility under Trump

The changes at Sequoia are in contrast to other billion-dollar venture firms that have been adding to their policy teams.

19.03.2025 5

Jessica Mathews

In a striking change of tone, Tesla mega bull Dan Ives warns Elon Musk that patience is ‘wearing thin’

One of the automaker’s most bullish analysts is urging the billionaire to return to his duties at Tesla.

12.03.2025 6

Jessica Mathews

A group of Democratic New York senators are asking the state pension to divest from Tesla, citing ‘increasingly perilous’ risk with Elon Musk as CEO

The request comes as Tesla shares nosedive due to Elon Musk’s absence from the business and his controversial work in the Trump Administration.

12.03.2025 30

Jessica Mathews

‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: One startup is trying to use Trump’s anti-regulation rhetoric to get an enforcement action reversed

Telnyx, an internet voice call carrier, is trying to use Trump’s anti-regulation agenda to get an enforcement action by the FCC overturned.

08.03.2025 3

Jessica Mathews

Anthropic hired president Daniela Amodei’s husband to work on the company’s AI safety strategy

The AI startup has been on a hiring spree, quietly bringing aboard EA philanthropist Holden Karnofsky, as well as Niki Parmar, whose research helped...

14.02.2025 10

Jessica Mathews

Read the full letter of intent Elon Musk’s lawyer sent to OpenAI this week

Elon Musk and a group of investors made a $97.4 billion offer for the AI startup this week.

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