"TACO" — "Trump Always Chickens Out" — has become part of Wall Street's lexicon. On Kaitlan Collins' show, @justinwolfers suggests the addition of another acronym: "BURRITO" — "Blatantly Unconstitutional Rewriting of the Rules of International Trade, Obviously."

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As the Fugees famously rapped, "Two MCs can't occupy the same space at the same time. It's against the laws of physics."

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Even the most bananas counterprogramming is no match for this news cycle.

Australian reporter just shot with rubber bullet live on air

if you're wondering why so many in silicon valley got behind Trump, especially immediately after the election, this a reason. FB, OpenAI, Palantir now have executives embedded in the army at the same time they are trying to sell tech to the DoD.

There’s some important reporting about Meta - ScaleAI - OpenAI at the top of the show today. We got Jackie Davalos and Rachel Metz on with us Bloomberg Technology 8am.

OpenAI says it is phasing out its work with Scale AI, in which Meta invested billions; Scale accounted for a small fraction of OpenAI's overall data needs (Rachel Metz / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250618/p28#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

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When news broke that Meta was investing billions in Scale AI, Dina Bass and I had the same question: What will this mean for Scale's rivals? Spoiler alert: Lots of phone calls and, potentially, lots of new business. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Realizing that people in Germany could just go to the supermarket and spend $550 on a balcony solar panel that they could install themselves vs. $30K for a rooftop system was, uh, mildly radicalizing. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

NEW: we talked to the new interim CEO of Scale AI, Jason Droege, about the future of the startup in Droege’s first in-depth interview since the Meta deal w/ Rachel Metz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The most cruel and mismanaged company I’ve ever worked for.

RIP to Laptop Mag, which gave me my first big-kid tech journalism job. it was a great early-career spot for many awesome journalists, including Davey Alba, Joanna Stern, Dana Wollman and Cherlynn Low! thanks Mark Spoonauer for taking a chance on me in 2005. theverge.com/news/695969/la…

Breaking: OpenAI is going to rent addtional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity from Oracle $ORCL reports Brody Ford Rachel Metz. Its an expansion of the Stargate imitative. Sites in states including Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin and Wyoming are under consideration

Scoop: OpenAI and Oracle inked an unprecedented cloud deal for 4.5GW of data center capacity. That’s enough power for millions of homes. W/ Rachel Metz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

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