President Trump threatened a "substantial" new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices

tech industry. Micron memory chips - Image Credit: Micron In June, Apple petitioned the Trump administration to allow it to buy Mac RAM chips from a supplier blacklisted in the United States

The European Commission found Google's search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act.

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

SpaceX did not officially sign the letter. Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, said Thursday that the company believes in broad access, and that he has not been involved in any conversations with the Trump administration about potentially banning Chinese open-weight models in the U.S

President Donald Trump is escalating the fight over European Union antitrust penalties against Apple, Google, and other U.S

Trump on Truth Social railed against the European Union's new fine on Google and prior penalties against U.S

Image credit: Intel The new tariffs went into effect on Friday, July 24, 2026. They come into force as a 10% blanket import tax imposed by the Trump administration lapsed following a Supreme Court ruling that it was unlawful

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

U.S. President Donald Trump expands the 'ratepayer protection pledge' to include states, utility companies, and data center developers

After Trump publicly backed pillow salesman turned election denier Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, the local GOP pushed back strongly.

Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to block U.S

The European Commission has fined Google $1 billion for giving its own services preferential treatment, and for preventing app developers directing users away from the Google Play store. The European Union is fining Google $1 billion - image credit: EU Just as US lawmakers ask Trump to investigate the EU's alleged " anti-American " Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union has used that act to fine Google

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits

Theres a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

U.S. Lawmakers have written to President Donald Trump, hoping he will do something to help big tech companies being targeted by the E.U.'s Digital Markets Act

The huge rise in consumer electricity pricing across the US has largely been fueled by data center construction and grid updgrades to connect them.

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesnt actually work.

The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Homeland Security's plans for an AI-powered border security system are still moving forward, according to a recent budget assessment.

Arvind Raman, the director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, will serve as acting director of CAISI, according to a spokesperson

"The Commerce Department did not provide a reason for Fall's departure," reports Reuters. From the report: Fall's exit marks the latest change in direction for Trump's approach to AI

The U.S

About half of voters believe it isn't appropriate for the U.S

The Trump administration is taking steps to control who gets access to the latest frontier models, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.

The API is supposed to deliver posts from 'the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.'

A newly renewed, $25 million-per-year contract with a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump administration.

Image source: Apple While discussions are reportedly underway, it's unclear whether an agreement will be reached. However, the Trump administration has been working to settle lawsuits brought by the previous administration for some time

ABC News reports that White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on Kalshi markets tied to what President Trump would say in speeches, using his access to prepared remarks and last-minute edits

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

The Trump Phone isn't alone when it comes to bad Android phones in 2026.

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the presidents son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED its exploring some kinetic things.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Trump Media & Technology Group has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, such as President Donald Trump's, whose posts often move global markets

Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.

NY State just banned new hyperscale data centers for a year, but Trump warns this "terrible decision" could have economic impacts.

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

New York became the first state in the U.S

Some sleep experts oppose permanent daylight saving time, arguing that year-round standard time better aligns with circadian rhythms and winter morning safety. The New York Times reports: President Trump has championed the effort to save an extra hour of daylight before nightfall and make the time zone permanent, describing the ritual of moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall a "ridiculous, twice yearly production." "We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day," Mr

California will offer state-wide instant rebates on electric vehicle purchases as part of its 2026-2027 budget.

chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports -- a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line

The Senate Banking Committee approved the bill 15-9 in May, with two Democrats joining Republicans to advance the legislation.

The Commerce Department will favorably review exports involving MGX, which used a stablecoin linked to President Trump's family for a $2B Binance investment.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Yaghi in an interview with The New York Times voiced concern about Mr. Trump's immigration policies, saying that they endanger the nation's system of universities, companies and governments that promote scientific excellence

Today on Uncanny Valley, we unpack the political debacle unfolding in Maine surrounding the campaign of Democratic candidate Graham Platner.

OpenAI has received approval from the Trump administration to publicly roll out GPT-5.6 after an earlier limited preview restricted access to government-approved organizations

Allegedly, Apple would only be using the Chinese-made RAM for devices it will sell in China. That might be a way to minimize the backlash that could ensue from the Trump administration, seeing as how the US government has added both CXMT and YMTC to its Entity List, which identifies companies that have ties to the Chinese...

The websites were defaced with pro-Kurdish media, and messages directed at Trump and Tom Barrack.

It's nowhere near enough to solve the problem. A Samsung LPDDR5X memory chip - Image Credit: Samsung In late June, Apple reportedly asked the Trump administration to allow it to buy RAM chips from a supplier in China that the U.S

The Biden-era FCC updated the broadband-label rules to require that ISPs "itemize on the label (PDF) all discretionary monthly fees that the provider passes through to the consumer." The change drew protest from Comcast and other ISPs that complained bitterly about the complexity of listing all the hidden fees they had chosen to charge. Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the Trump FCC has steadily whittled away at requirements imposed under Democrats

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

programs this fall dropped 15 percent from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities, raising fears that the nation's capacity to produce new science could be diminished. The decline is driven, in part, by a chaotic and unpredictable federal funding environment under the Trump administration, as federal cuts are promised and then reversed, and budgets remain unclear

President Donald Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen last week that he thought SpaceX CEO Elon Musk would donate company stock to the program.

According to Shihipar, the code "was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation." Regarding the former, The Washington Post found unauthorized retailers have sold access to free models for $1 a month, and pro subscriptions that can cost $100 monthly sell for "as little as $12." Supposedly, Anthropic has "actually been meaning to take this down for a while," Shihipar said of the hidden code, because engineers have "landed stronger mitigations since then." Privacy advocates were not happy with the explanation, though, warning that the code is evidence that Anthropic is willing to cross lines to surveil users. That's perhaps especially surprising, considering that Anthropic riled the Trump administration by refusing to allow the US government to use Claude to surveil US users

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Companies with federal interests including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Oracle are sponsoring a Trump-aligned effort celebrating Americas 250th birthday.

The day before President Donald Trump walked back his tariff policy turned out to be one of his busiest days of 2025 for stock buying.

government a 5% stake, potentially alongside similar contributions from other major AI companies. "Such a deal would help improve the industry's relations with the Trump administration and could help garner political support by sharing wealth generated by the AI boom with the public," reports The Guardian

Financial disclosures show how much Trump loves tech stocks.

Altman is understood to have raised the idea with President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Slate is the latest automaker to transition to lower-cost batteries perfected in China, driven in part by the repeal of EV tax credits that required materials to be sourced domestically.

Donald Trump made over $1 billion from cryptocurrency in 2026, with his business dealings laid out in a 927-page mandatory report.

Trump said in June that the U.S

Hawaii offers a one-time payment of $400 for every kilowatt of battery storage that homeowners install. However, the record-breaking home battery installations coincided with a slowdown in residential installations of solar panels -- the result of the Trump administration and Republican-driven One Big Beautiful Bill having eliminated a 30 percent federal solar tax credit for homeowners

US lifts curbs on Anthropics advanced Fable and Mythos models.

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropics Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI modelsbut there were strings attached.

Trump has remade the nations capitol in his own image

The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions that forced Anthropic to shut off public access to its Mythos and Fable models