Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the world, tech leaders, educators, and nonprofits to collaborate on practical solutions that expand access to educational tools while strengthening protections for children in digital environments (Day 2 WH summary)

US First Lady Melania Trump brought a surprise guest to a White House event on Wednesday a walking, talking, humanoid robot

Melania Trump says robot teachers are the future, as she brings AI-powered robot to White House summit on education.

Figure 03 humanoid robot makes a surprise visit to the White House, alongside First Lady Melania Trump, who is ready for robot teachers

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare

Plus one actual physicist Donald Trump has named the first members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), largely comprising Trump allies in the tech industry and one actual scientist.

A lawsuit claiming that Elon Musk was unlawfully wielding executive powers with DOGE has overcome a challenge from the Trump administration.

Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.

"Have you seen that guy speak? He's like a lizard man," Roher says regarding Zuckerberg. "Musk said yes initially, but it was right when he was doing all the stuff with Trump, and we just got ghosted after a while," adds [codirector Charlie Tyrell]

John Kiriakou went to prison after exposing the CIA's torture program

Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison the CEOs of Meta, NVIDIA, Dell and Oracle, respectively are joining the panel alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin and AMD CEO Lisa Su. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who has donated to super PACs that support President Donald Trump, will serve on the panel too

The US and Japan have the largest number of users on X. Bier didnt mention it outright, but dozens of popular accounts tweeting pro-Trump sentiments and commentaries focusing on US politics in general were revealed to be based outside the US late last year, when X rolled out a transparency feature that exposed users locations

Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.

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The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S

She stalled over MAHA woo-woo, anti-vaccine views, and lacking medical background.

Donald Trump wants to take ownership of some AI legislation, agreeing to keep states in control of fraud and consumer protection

Biden-era punishment tossed; Intuit now has more friendly regulators under Trump.

Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.

President Trump claimed ICE agents handling airport security would arrest immigrants who are in the U.S

But some private space companies are already building their alternatives: Private companies that are in the early design and mockup phase of developing these space stations are still waiting on NASA for guidance and money... [NASA's "Requests for Proposals"] were delayed, in part because it took all of 2025 to cinch a confirmation for Trump's on-again-off-again pick for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman [confirmed in December]..

Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued (PDF) a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent technology while preempting states from enacting their own AI rules

The White House has announced a new AI policy framework that calls for Congress to craft federal regulation that overrules state AI laws. The Trump administration has made multiple attempts to overrule more restrictive state-level AI regulation, but has failed so far, most notably in the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill

Brendan Carr lets Trump-favorite Nexstar exceed national station ownership limit.

"Supermicro has placed the two employees on administrative leave and terminated its relationship with the contractor, effective immediately." This isn't the first time people have attempted to illegally smuggle NVIDIA's products out of the US, and it likely won't be the last time. Reportedly $1 billion worth of NVIDIA's AI chips were illegally sold in the three months after the Trump administration tightened export controls, and back in December 2025, Texas authorities seized more than $50 million worth of NVIDIA GPUs bound for China

It was used to access the location of US military bases back in 2018 and members of the Secret Service accidentally shared their whereabouts while protecting then-US President Joe Biden . The same has happened to President Trump and other world leaders

AI industry leaders have opposed state-level regulatory efforts, arguing that a "patchwork" of laws would hobble innovation and give China a competitive edge.

Twenty-three US states and 14 cities and counties sued the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, challenging the agency's decision to revoke the government's scientific finding of greenhouse gas endangerment, the cornerstone for US climate regulations.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The White House released an artificial intelligence policy on Friday that aims to pre-empt state rules, ensure protections for children and shield communities from prohibitive energy costs

AleRunner writes: "China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades," reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that "China's decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis spurred by Trump's war against Iran," and that "Chinese exports of solar equipment to Cuba skyrocketed from about $5 million in 2023 to $117 million in 2025 and show no sign of stopping." According to researchers from Ember, solar could be responsible for as much as 10% of Cuba's electricity generation

Rescinding the finding nullified the EPA's evidence for things like emissions standards and a variety of other regulations that attempted to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced by the automotive, coal and oil industries. The Trump administration framed the rollback as a cost-saving measure, but it was also a major blow to the government's ability to fight climate change

Apple CEO Tim Cook set the record straight on his relationship with the Trump administration and put to rest questions about his future at the company

AI-related imports across the computing and electronics sector have led to a big increase in the U.S. trade deficit, hitting a record $1.2 trillion in 2025, despite efforts from the Trump administration to reduce the gap

It wants to showcase its 6G prowess at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) fired the first volley. The senator shared a discussion draft for codifying the executive order signed by President Donald Trump in December calling for an AI bill

In a new filing, the Trump administration backs Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a national supply chain risk

If true, it wouldnt come as a surprise, seeing as the US is aiming to become an AI-first" warfighting force, based on the statement [PDF] released by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier this year. The department is already using AI models in the military: For instance, the US reportedly used Anthropics Claude to help with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and with its attack on Iran , even after President Trump ordered federal agencies to ban its technology

After all, AI systems are acutely vulnerable to manipulation, and Anthropic could attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model either before or during ongoing warfighting operations, if Anthropic in its discretion feels that its corporate red lines are being crossed, the Pentagon wrote in its filing. DoW deemed that an unacceptable risk to national security, it added, referring to the agency as the Department of War, which is the Trump administrations preferred name for it

March 17 (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday asked the White House to answer if investors are paying $10 billion to the Treasury as part of the Trump administration-brokered sale of TikTok's U.S

Suit: The National Center for Atmospheric Research is to be terminated for no rational reason.

The proposed change in the reporting standard would allow listed companies to publish results every six months instead of the current mandate to report figures every 90 days. Trump, who first floated the idea in his first term as president, has argued the change in requirements would discourage shortsightedness from public companies while cutting costs

Stablecoin startups have been a hot commodity since the reelection of President Donald Trump in late 2024 ushered in a new era of crypto-friendly regulation.

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A judge had deposition videos of DOGE staffers removed at the Trump administration's request

Carr makes evidence-free claim of "hoaxes and news distortions." Trump is thrilled.

Presiden Donald Trump yang hari ini menuduh Iran menggunakan kecerdasan buatan (AI) sebagai senjata untuk menyebarkan maklumat palsu

It's not the phantom Trump Mobile phone for sure

The plant's first construction delay happened back in 2019, they point out and then "Just three months ago, when the project was 95% complete, the U.S. Interior Department issued a stop-work order." But after successfully challenging that order in court, and "with a stretch of good weather offshore, the developers behind the $4.5 billion project managed to get over the finish line." The Associated Press notes it was "one of five major East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns." Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, essentially concluding that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt

There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done

Bank of America is in line to make some $130 million for advising railroad operator Norfolk Southern on its $71.5 billion sale to Union Pacific, one of the largest fees on record for a single bank on a deal. Administration officials have said the fee is justified given Trump's role in saving TikTok in the U.S

March 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors in the recently completed deal to take control of TikTok's U.S

AppleInsider reports: Chinese regulators have been back and forth with Apple in recent years over the 30% App Store commission. The latest publicly known pressure occurred after President Trump slammed the country with seemingly random and outrageous tariffs in 2025

Tarif Trump telah dibatalkan oleh Mahkamah Agung Amerika Syarikat tahun lalu tetapi Presiden Trump berdegil beliau mempunyai hak mengenakan tarif “bagi mempertahankan kedaulatan negara”

The larger issue is that the company's offer to acquire the studio is predicated on the idea it will quickly pass the muster of government regulators . Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who's known to have close ties with President Donald Trump, and has already benefited from favorable treatment from the administration

SBF is still twisting facts to hide FTX crypto losses, DOJ says to block new trial.

A group representing tech giants called government action against Anthropic a "temper tantrum".

US State Department has officially ditched Claude in favor of ChatGPT, while the US Senate has approved the big three AI chatbots for use

75% of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before Trump took office.

As Axios notes, Anthropic is tripling its Public Policy team at a time when AI companies are establishing a presence in Washington, so that they can influence future policies around artificial intelligence. In Anthropics case, it might have to find a way to be re-accepted by the US government first after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using its technology

Anduril, founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, is positioning itself to be a key player in President Trump's "Golden Dome" project.

The White House is preparing an executive order targeting the AI startup, even as its earlier actions against the company face a major test in court.

In the end, the FDA only approved the drug for a rare genetic condition with clearer data.

It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.

Google is rolling out a feature that lets civilian and military personnel build custom AI agents for unclassified work on the Pentagon's enterprise AI portal.

The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contractsincluding one that could be worth up to $100 millionwith little competition, according to federal filings.

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March 9 (Reuters) - Anthropic filed a lawsuit on Monday to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating the artificial intelligence lab's high-stakes battle with the U.S

Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

The Trump administration has revealed its US cyber strategy for the first time, and it is very 'America First'

The lawsuit says Anthropic is being harmed "irreparably" and could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nintendo may face pressure to share refunds with gamers who helped pay tariffs.

Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Trump administration labeled the company a "supply chain risk" and canceled its government contracts when Anthropic refused to allow its AI model Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons