SpaceX is the top contender to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield, sources say

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

Musk’s rocket and satellite company is partnering with software maker Palantir and

The AI starter pack trend is taking over LinkedIn and TikTok

What’s in your office starter pack? La Colombe cold brew and a New Yorker subscription? Bose headphones and Brooks Brothers?

Thanks to the latest ChatGPT trend making the rounds, you can now find out. By uploading a few photos and using a specific prompt, OpenAI’s GPT-4o image generator will spit out a personalized action figure or Barbie box in your likeness

Facebook Groups are fueling a black market for Uber and DoorDash accounts, says a new report

A new watchdog report uncovers Facebook groups quietly fueling a black market for operational Uber and DoorDash accounts, posing serious safety concerns for riders and customers. 

The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a research initiative run by the nonprofit the Campaign for Accountability, found more than 80 black market groups through searches for terms such a

He built an AI app to beat coding interviews. Then Columbia suspended him

A software application called Interview Coder promises to help software developers succeed at technical job interviews—by surreptitiously feeding them answers to programming questions via AI.

Interview Coder’s 21-year-old cofounder and CEO Roy Lee says he and Neel Shanmugam, the company’s cofounder and COO, created the tool partly as a protest against longstanding industry practices that require job candidates to solve progra

GE Vernova’s CEO on thriving through tariffs and supply chain shifts

Amid tariff whiplash and the rejuggling of global trade, GE Vernova’s CEO Scott Strazik is finding a way to stay “relentlessly optimistic.” Strazik returns to the Rapid Response podcast to share how the company plans to continue its success as one of Wall Street’s top-performing stocks, despite looming supply chain disruption and market unpredictability. 

This is an abridged transcript of an interview from

Tesla’s first quarter EV registrations slump 15.1% in California

Tesla‘s electric-vehicle registrations in California dropped 15.1% during the first quarter, industry data showed, signaling an accelerated decline and growing challenges for the Elon Musk-led automaker in its biggest U.S. mar

TikTok starts testing Footnotes, a new feature that looks a lot like X’s Community Notes

TikTok is launching its own version of community notes on the platform, called “Footnotes.”

The crowd-sourced approach to moderation, where users add additional context to posts, has become increasingly popular on social media networks after X (then called Twitter) first launched it in 2021.

“Footnotes offers a new opportunity for people to share their expertise and add an additional layer of context to the discussion using a consensus-driven approach,&

‘I would get way more views if I didn’t help thousands of people’: MrBeast defends his philanthropy‑as‑content strategy

MrBeast has again defended his philanthropy‑as‑content, clapping back at critics who say he is “only in it for the views.”

On April 13, in a post on X, Jimmy Donaldson—better known as MrBeast—rebutted accusations of virtue‑signalling for profit, pointing out that his two worst‑performing videos this year are the charitable ones.

He shared a screenshot of his “Top Recent Videos” and noted that, of the 10 most recent uploads, “I Helped 2,000 People Walk Again” and

Zuckerberg once floated spinning off Instagram over antitrust fears, email reveals in trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market.

In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wro

Trump’s China tariffs spark viral TikTok work-arounds

President Trump’s trade wars have officially landed on TikTok.

U.S. TikTok users’ For You Pages are being flooded with videos from Chinese manufacturers urging Americans to bypass sweeping new tariffs by purchasing goods directly from China.

“So China is doing us a solid over here in the US and allowing us to buy directly and avoid all of the ridiculous tariffs,” says


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