Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation

Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video…

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TSMC-Trump Deal Makes Taiwan Even More Fearful of a US “Technology Transfer”; Officials Claim Taiwan Will Lose Its Status As The Dominant Chip Country

TSMC's deal with the US marks the firm's biggest foreign investment, but Taiwanese officials aren't happy with the development, claiming that this would result in a technology transfer. Taiwanese Lawmakers…

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Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead Rumman Chowdhury is worried about Musk’s impact on the federal government

Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, nonprofit founder, and former director of Twitter’s machine ethics team, had strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during an…

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