Elon Musk is a ‘special government employee.’ What does that mean?
The SGE designation, which has come under scrutiny under Democrats as well, exempts short-term federal employees from certain ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
Tariffs may make your Shein and Temu orders more expensive. Here’s why.
President Donald Trump has revoked a nearly century-old tax loophole that saved companies from paying tens of billions of ...
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
The clock is ticking: How feds should think about the buyout offer
Should they accept? Post readers, including former civil servants, weigh in. The decision federal employees must make by Feb.
Stock market today: Calm returns to Wall Street, and US indexes make only modest moves
Some calm is returning to Wall Street, and U.S. stock indexes are making only modest moves after much of Europe and Asia rose ...
Huang Ruo’s `The Monkey King' to get world premiere at San Francisco Opera on Nov. 14
Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a primate born from stone acquires supernatural powers and seeks immortality, will ...
Podcast: DeepSeek reality check; Amazon, Bezos, and the Post; lost in the Microsoft garage
DeepSeek shows the potential to create powerful AI models with fewer computing resources than previously imagined.
How a little-noticed Trump trade move could hurt Amazon, Temu, Shein
President Donald Trump’s push to tariff goods from Canada, Mexico and China included a change to how online purchases will be ...
China strikes back: Beijing brings in stiff tariffs on cars, trucks, coal, oil and takes aim at Google, Calvin Klein and high tech products as new trade wars loom
China has retaliated against President Donald Trump 's tariffs by implementing some of its own, renewing a trade war between ...
Old prisons are being converted into stylish apartments (really)
The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...
Google now thinks it's OK to use AI for weapons and surveillance
Google has made one of the most substantive changes to its AI principles since first publishing them in 2018. In a change spotted by The Washington Post, the search giant edited the document to remove ...