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We’re in the final stretch. TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over Zellerbach Hall in almost a month, and the exhibit floor is almost completely booked. If you’ve been considering showing off your AI product or innovation, now’s the time to commit. Exhibit tables are in short supply, and the May 9 deadline is fast approaching. At TC Sessions: AI on June 5, AI leaders, engineers, founders, researchers, investors, and visionaries will gather to explore what’s next in artificial intelligence. They’re coming to scout what’s cutting-edge, what’s investable, and what’s actually moving the industry forward. If that sounds like your company, you…

CNN  —  Ever since the government-changing administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president’s first 100 days in office have been viewed as a sprint to see how much they can get done in the honeymoon period after Inauguration Day. At the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has embraced an effort to dismantle the administrative state that Roosevelt helped create more than 90 years ago. Working with Elon Musk to shrink government as significantly and as quickly as possible, Trump has moved to cut international and scientific research funding and fired federal workers. His rat-a-tat executive orders and…

Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will fight for all four heavyweight belts in a bid to become undisputed world champion at Wembley Stadium on July 19. Hear from both fighters as they speak in a live stream of their first press conference from 2.30pm, via the video link above. Usyk arrives as the WBO, WBC and WBA unified heavyweight world champion after two successive victories over Tyson Fury, the first of which saw him become undisputed champion.Dubois meanwhile occupies the IBF belt, vacated by Usyk following his rematch with Fury, after knocking out Anthony Joshua at Wembley last September.The pair…

Hungry to learn more about Anthropic, directly from Anthropic? You aren’t alone if so, which is why we’re so delighted to announce that Anthropic co-founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan is joining the main stage at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Lean into this session exploring the frontier of AI with Kaplan — and save big with Early Bird pricing. Save $210 on your ticket and get 50% off a second when you register by May 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don’t wait — register now to secure your savings. About Jared Kaplan’s…

The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s already underway, and the time to grab your Early Bird ticket ends in just 6 days. Don’t miss your chance to dive into the AI ecosystem and lock in the lowest rates. On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI takes over UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for a one-day gathering of the world’s top founders, investors, researchers, technologists, and enthusiasts who are actively shaping the future of AI. Early Bird pricing ends soon — save up to $210 on your pass, and get 50% off a second ticket for your co-founder, colleague, or AI-obsessed friend.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams, an initiative that he called “woke” but actually was signed into law by his boss, President Donald Trump. In a post on the social platform X, Hegseth called the “Women, Peace & Security” program at the Defense Department “a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.”It was, in fact, bipartisan legislation that Trump signed into law in 2017 that recognized the role women have in achieving security goals,…

CNN  —  The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a blockbuster dispute over the nation’s first religious charter school, a case that critics say has prompted a “crisis of identity” in the school choice movement and that could vastly expand taxpayer funding for religious education. The battle over St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma has pit public school officials, traditional charter school advocates and the state’s Republican attorney general against powerful religious groups who say a series of recent opinions from the court’s 6-3 conservative majority has all-but already decided the case in their favor. Charter…

The satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon plans to put into low-Earth orbit as Jeff Bezos looks to move into a market dominated by Elon Musk.Amazon launched the first 27 satellites for its Kuiper broadband internet constellation into space from Florida on Monday.The flight marks the start of Jeff Bezos’s delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink.The satellites are the first of 3,236 that Amazon.com Inc. plans to put into low-Earth orbit for Project Kuiper.It is a $10 billion move first unveiled in 2019 to beam broadband internet globally for consumers, businesses, and governments—customers…

JPMorgan Chase’s largest US office was put to the test last week as its roughly 12,000 workers returned Monday through Friday for the first time since the work-from-home movement swept the nation five years ago, at the start of the pandemic.Whether the bank passed that test depends on whom you ask.On Monday, April 21, an executive at the firm’s sprawling Columbus, Ohio, campus, projected optimism about employees’ first full week back in the office while acknowledging some pain points.”Ample seats were available across the site,” a memo from Becky Griffin, the location leader at the Columbus campus, said. “We did…

President Donald Trump personally called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday to complain about about a report that the online retail giant was considering displaying U.S. tariff costs on its product listings, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.Within hours of the call, Amazon publicly downplayed the scope of its plan — and then announced that it had been scrapped entirely.The pressure campaign on Bezos by Trump and the White House came after Punchbowl News reported earlier Tuesday that Amazon will soon show consumers how much of an item’s cost comes from tariffs.The amount added as a result…