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🚨NEW🚨 Trump's China tariffs look set to make his immigration mission much more expensive. Massive ICE and CBP tech contractors like Axon and Cellebrite are both expecting increased costs, Axon warning of a potential price hike for customers. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Scoop: Accel is leading a $275 million funding round into defense tech startup CHAOS Industries — just months after backing a previous round. The round values CHAOS, which makes radar and communications tecchnologies, at $2 billion. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…

New: Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois is in talks to lead a $100 million funding round into buzzy defense tech Mach Industries. Big vote of confidence for the LA-based startup, that could value it as high as $400M. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…

SCOOP: AI startup Decagon, which is building customer service-focused agents, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, multiple sources told Forbes. With the great Iain Martin. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

New: Hustle culture has always been ingrained in Silicon Valley’s DNA. Now as AI booms, some startups are requiring 6 or 7 day work weeks. One of them is Mercor, a $2 billion recruitment unicorn founded by Thiel Fellows. With Iain Martin forbes.com/sites/richardn…

"The irony of a six or seven day work week for AI companies is that many have hyped artificial intelligence’s promise to spawn a new era of productivity, leading to predictions of a shorter work week." forbes.com/sites/richardn…

Scoop: Databricks is in advanced talks to buy Postgres startup Neon for about $1 billion, sources tell me Upstarts Media. The deal could go higher with employee retention. Paid subscribers just got the story and context in their inboxes. Join them 👇 upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop-databr…

SCOOP: Legal AI startup Legora (formerly Leya) is in talks to raise $85 million in funding at a $675 million valuation. General Catalyst and Iconiq are leading the deal. With Iain Martin forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

What if Bill and Melinda never discovered philanthropy–and never sold a share of Microsoft? They’d be worth $1.5 trillion combined, Forbes figures, and Bill would likely be the world’s first trillionaire forbes.com/sites/mattduro…

New from me: chatbots for schoolchildren dispensed dangerous information — including instructions for how to synthesize fentanyl and a date rape drug — in tests conducted by Forbes. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…

NEW: Shield AI is one of defense tech’s most hyped startups, largely thanks to its V-BAT drone. But last year, a grisly injury involving a U.S. service member threw the $5 billion company off course. forbes.com/sites/davidjea…

In 2019 I was the first journalist to embed within OpenAI to profile them. Afterwards they refused to speak to me for 3 years. Here's the story of what happened, and Altman’s reaction, excerpted from my book EMPIRE OF AI about the company (out May 20). 1/ technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/111…

My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

My latest: I talked to Abel Avellan, whose company AST SpaceMobile aims to use satellites to let you use your cell phone wherever you are--and to connect the over 2 billion people across the world who don't have regular internet access. forbes.com/sites/alexknap…

New: I chatted with Niantic CEO John Hanke and other company brass about the bombshell decision to sell off Pokemon Go and the rest of the games business and pivot to enterprise AI.  “It was like two bodies running a three-legged race,” one investor said. forbes.com/sites/richardn…

Interesting profile of VC Hemant Taneja, and the "strategic conglomerate" he's trying to build at General Catalyst, by my former colleagues Forbes for this year's Midas List. "He perceived more in Stripe than we did," says CEO Patrick Collison of Hemant Taneja. forbes.com/sites/iainmart…

Heya friends. The Forbes Tech & Innovation desk is hiring. Come break news and raise hell with me and Katharine Schwab forbes.com/careers-at-for…

Forbes is hiring! We're looking for a standout AI reporter to come join my team! Best part -- you get to work with the legend John Paczkowski and a crew of absolutely fantastic reporters. Ping me with any questions or leads! forbes.com/careers-at-for…

“We don't want Tesla to fail because if Tesla fails that means a lot of retirees are going to lose a lot of money in terms of their portfolios. If you're going to have Musk there, then make sure he's there or get another CEO." forbes.com/sites/alanohns…

Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers — took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. forbes.com/sites/emilybak…