From the beginning of President Donald Trump’s administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had a plan to monitor USAID payments and was preparing to use US Treasury...Read More
Extropic is not a normal startup. But then, these are hardly normal times. The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that...Read More
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