A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax
US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Tweety McTreason imposed on H-1B visa applications is an
Category: Tech
How Elon Musk’s Friendship With the F.C.C. Smooths the Way for SpaceX’s I.P.O.
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has greenlighted regulatory requests for the company’s Starlink satellite internet service and lavished praise on its
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and 430 Videos in Archive of Viral Moments
The British Film Institute assembled the memes in an archive of culturally significant internet moments. See what made the cut.
7 best HRIS for growing companies: 2026 overview
Most HRIS platforms sell you a vision of growth. Then they become the ceiling. The system that handled onboarding for your first 50 hires starts
Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round
America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors
The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling
The Iran War is Forcing Energy-Importing Countries to Turn Inward
The Iran war is pushing countries to prioritize domestic energy in order to protect themselves from volatile oil and natural gas markets.
Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do
Last week’s explosion of a New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was clearly a setback for Blue Origin and NASA, but it was a
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and More Videos in Archive of Viral Moments
The British Film Institute assembled more than 400 videos in an archive of culturally significant internet moments. See what made the cut.
Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech
Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United
The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei
The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State
EU’s cloud sovereignty push leaves room for US hyperscalers
The European Commission published its tech sovereignty package last week, including the clearest signal yet of its intention to strengthen European cloud sovereignty and reduce
PhysicsX hits $2.4bn valuation as Temasek leads $300m round for the AI startup that cuts simulation times from days to seconds
London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4
The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here
In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were