Anthropic Chief Executive and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks onstage during an event in New York City. Photo shows a man with glasses on and wearing a blue suit jacket and white open collared dress shirt seated and speaking. Photo credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images/Los Angeles Times

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Pentagon’s Anthropic bashing rekindles Silicon Valley’s resistance to war. | LA Times
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Elon Musk’s X cooperates with €120M EU fine The billionaire owner described the penalty as an attack on free speech.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Elon Musk’s X has met its deadline for the €120 million fine issued by the EU in December, a European Commission spokesperson confirmed.

The cooperation with the EU comes as X continues a legal challenge against the decision.

www.politico.eu/article/elon...

‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs In today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Uncanny Valley: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs.

In today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over. | WIRED

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The Social Security Administration’s headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, in February 2025. Photo credit. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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A DOGE bro allegedly made off with volumes upon volumes of highly sensitive Social Security data - the agency’s “crown jewels” - which he downloaded on a thumb drive and brought over to his new job. | WashingtonPost

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Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Defends Aiding Trump’s Immigration Policies YouTube video by The New York Times

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Know your enemy. Alex can’t defend the indefensible. Sell this stock now, all if it. Call your reps/have them investigate ALL of their contracts NOW. Divest from this stock

Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Defends Aiding Trump’s Immigration Policies.
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Tech moguls close to Trump see the midterms as a path to long-term power As politicians in both parties raise concerns about the impacts of AI, political groups backed by tech investors and Meta plan to intervene in midterm races.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Tech moguls see the midterms as a path to long term power

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Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ “Witkoff has tried to inspire Ukrainian officials with the idea of soldiers disarming to earn Silicon Valley-scale salaries operating American built AI data centers."

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From 'drone guy' to Ukraine peace negotiator: Who is Dan Driscoll? The Army secretary, a close friend of Vice President JD Vance, has been newly tasked with helping end the war in Ukraine.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Thiel and Vance’s drone guy. So, has Driscoll handed closed bid drone contracts to TechBros? Has he armed the ATF with drones too? And has the ATF been raided for funds by DHS/ICE like the Navy has? Time to get some FOIAs out to ATF guys.

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Polymarket Nears $200 Million Raise Led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund - "The Defiant" The funding round reportedly values the largest onchain prediction market at more than $1 billion.

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😂 Elon Musk demands immediate voter ID nationwide.

Or so says Polymarket — Led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

The funding round reportedly values the largest onchain prediction market at more than $1 billion. thedefiant.io/news/defi/po...

Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind What really happened when he logged out of Washington.

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Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind.

What really happened when he logged out of Washington.

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Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains

#TechCoupDaily News: ☕️ Big Tech wants access directly to our brains.

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Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

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Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.

"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech | 404 Media

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next.

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Secret GOP Cabal With Vance and Thiel Plots Eternal MAGA Rule The GOP leaders convened in a small Ohio town to talk about building a MAGA movement that outlives Trump.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Secret GOP Cabal With Vance and Thiel Plots Eternal MAGA Rule.

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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

#TechCoupDaily News coffee ☕️ The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is rewriting MAGA’s future -

Chris Buskirk put tech elites at the center of power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are based on controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

Musk’s SpaceX set to win $2 billion satellite deal with Pentagon, report says Billionaire tech boss reportedly in line for lucrative Golden Dome commission despite spectacular public falling out with President Donald Trump in July

#TechCoupDaily News: ☕️ Musk’s SpaceX set to win $2 billion satellite deal with Pentagon, report says.

Billionaire tech boss reportedly in line for lucrative Golden Dome commission despite spectacular public falling out with President Trump in July. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

#TechCoupDaily News Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points.

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

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AWS outage: when senior engineers leave, let’s not act surprised It took too long for AWS engineers to go from “things are breaking” to identifying a single service endpoint as the problem – why?

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday doesn’t seem to have been caused by a cyberattack. But critics are already pointing to the fact that Amazon has laid off at least 27,000 employees, including – surprise – senior engineers, since 2022. cybernews.com/news/aws-out...

Billionaire money launderer pardoned after months of boosting Trump's crypto venture Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, received a pardon after months of boosting a crypto venture owned by President Donald Trump's family.According to The Wall Street Jo...

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, received a pardon after months of boosting a crypto venture owned by President Donald Trump's family.

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Apple takes EU to court over Digital Markets Act - The Tech Portal Apple has launched a sweeping legal battle against the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

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Apple takes EU to court over Digital Markets Act.

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Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla (TSLA) if he doesn't get his ridiculous pay Elon Musk has openly threatened to leave Tesla, or at least his role as CEO, if he doesn’t get his...

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Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla (TSLA) if he doesn’t get his ridiculous pay.

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Not sure why BlueSky is blocking the #TechCoupDaily News hashtag.

Dear Jay: did one of my posts strike a nerve with someone? Drop me a line.

Man in sunglasses with a yellow safety vest stands behind a drone in mid air.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ How many of these drones does Noem plan to fly over U.S. occupied cities? That, since she and DHS/ICE is in bed with the DoD now.

Skydio Wins $7.9 Mln U.S. Army Contract For X10D Drone Deliveries

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ Elon Musk’s #SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies. | ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/elon...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for #deportation.

www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance With a growing roster of partners, Amazon has been peddling AI drone surveillance, gun detection and real-time crime center tech to law enforcement agencies, public records reveal.

#TechCoupDaily News Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI Surveillance. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Google joins presidential bribe club It's a "settlement." WINK WINK.

#TechCoupDaily News ☕️ #Google joins presidential bribe club
It's a "settlement." WINK WINK.

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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

#TechCoupDaily News — Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia. www.theverge.com/news/789152/...