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Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews

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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.

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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.

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

Farley says that LiDAR is “mission critical.”

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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 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

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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 5

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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.

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‘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

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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

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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.

13.02.2025 4

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Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI to be ‘one hundred percent’ in cash, per letter of intent

The official letter of intent was filed in a federal California court on Wednesday.

13.02.2025 20

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Y Combinator group partner Surbhi Sarna says work-life balance is a misnomer

How one medical device founder-turned-investor kept all the balls in the air at once.

01.02.2025 6

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5 Tesla takeaways as shares ‘become completely divorced from the fundamentals’

Tesla’s last quarter disappointed some analysts—but Elon Musk’s lofty promises for the year head are helping buoy the EV stock.

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Elon Musk says Tesla paid robotaxi service launching in Austin in June

Tesla is moving quickly to try to play catch-up to its main competition: Alphabet's Waymo.

30.01.2025 5

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GM says its EV business has become ‘variable profit positive’— but experts say the automaker is still a ways out before it starts making money on electric cars

The company sold 189,000 EVs to dealerships in 2024—less than it had projected.

30.01.2025 4

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RTX now has a $218 billion backlog for its commercial aircraft and defense products

The aerospace and defense contractor said it was benefitting by an uptick in defense spending from NATO countries and other allies.

29.01.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s xAI is buying equipment—and getting a tax break—for an X data center in Atlanta, documents show

It's the first step that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has taken into Georgia, and is the latest indication of the interconnectedness...

24.01.2025 5

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Steve Davis was Elon Musk’s chief cost-cutter at X and the Boring Company. DOGE might be his next big project

Former coworkers describe Davis's ruthless focus on efficiency, which could be perfect for cutting government bloat.

21.01.2025 10

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The future of funding: Why more firms are writing checks to Black women

The Fearless Fund closed its first $25 million fund to invest capital in startups founded by women of color.

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xAI could have power problems in Memphis

AI companies have electricity needs regional power systems may struggle to support.

09.01.2025 7

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Memphis warns it may not be able to power Elon Musk’s lofty ‘Colossus’ supercomputer expansion plans

“We are dealing with the physical realities of what our utility system can provide," the CEO of the city's utility provider said in a city meeting...

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Inside Robinhood’s effort to retain employees of its $300 million acquisition with ‘exploding offers’

While Robinhood’s acquisition of TradePMR won’t close until next year, the fintech is rolling out plans ahead of time.

19.12.2024 8

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Why Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell says AI agents ‘don’t work’

AI agents may replace humans in the future, but three VCs say we’re still a ways out from that reality.

12.12.2024 7

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With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis

Automakers like Ford Motors and Volkswagen had also once made big, billion-dollar bets on the future of ridehail—only to walk back those plans...

12.12.2024 5

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General Motors to stop funding its Cruise robotaxi business

The automaker said it would combine Cruise’s and GM’s technical teams.

11.12.2024 5

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How strength training startup Ladder plans to more than double users of its app in a year

The startup has accused Peloton of making a copycat product to try to compete in the space.

10.12.2024 5

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How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House

With David Sacks as “AI and Crypto Czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of DOGE, Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration...

08.12.2024 7

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Inside Elon Musk’s plans for a private pre-school in Texas, which just got a permit to open and where children will learn to sweep, draw, and explore

Ad Astra — Latin for "to the stars" — just received its initial permit, and can now open its doors in Bastrop, Texas, near Elon Musk’s companies...

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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is back, revolutionizing warfare with a $14 billion startup. And this time he wants you to like him

“I realized too late that my reputation is actually very important,” Luckey told Fortune.

20.11.2024 3

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Welcome to Elontown, USA: an unlikely Texas home base for Musk’s business empire

New jobs and developments are booming, but locals have been left to guess how their community fits into the billionaire’s plans.

18.11.2024 5

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Canoo tested its electric delivery vans for Walmart without airbags despite employees raising red flags, sources say

“Everybody in the building—everybody in the company—knew that there was a safety issue,” one former employee says.

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