The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it would begin phasing out animal testing requirements for antibody therapies and other drugs and move toward AI-based models and other tools it deems "human-relevant."
Why it matters: The agency is trying to reaffirm its role as a leader in modern regulatory science amid DOGE-directed cuts that have rattled drug developers and investors and stoked concerns about timely product reviews.
The annual TED conference is designed to help business and cultural leaders think long-term, but that's proving tough this year with the global economy in turmoil.
State of play: TED talks are planned months in advance and tend to avoid the news of the day. But President Trump's tariff turnabouts have kept attendees' devices buzzing and flashing.
President Trump has revoked the security clearances belonging to former CISA leader Chris Krebs and ex-DHS official Miles Taylor and ordered investigations into the work they did while in public service.
Why it matters: The move is the latest in Trump's full-throttle attack on his perceived political enemies.
OpenAI countersued Elon Musk on Wednesday, arguing in its lawsuit that he "could not tolerate seeing" the company's success and that he sought to build a direct competitor "not for humanity" but for himself.
The big picture: It's the latest in a high profile legal battle pitting the AI revolution's standard-bearing company against the tech billionaire who helped found it.
The Trump administration's massive tariffs on China have Apple flying planes full of iPhones to the U.S. and consumers rushing to buy them before the prices potentially skyrocket.
Why it matters: The iPhone maker is one of many large companies caught up in an escalating trade war between the world's two biggest economies. Most iPhones are assembled in China, and more than half of iPhone sales are in the U.S.
Engineering touches nearly everything — from automotive, aerospace, defense, electronics and beyond. But for decades, simulation and design have been iterative, time-consuming and resource-intensive.
The conventional wisdom aboutU.S. coal's grim prognosis is a tad murkier after President Trump threw unprecedented government weight behind the fuel.
Why it matters: His plan will test whether forces long battering coal — cheap gas, pollution regs, renewables' rise and more — can be undone by rising power demand and federal intervention.
Google used its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas this week to show how its AI tools are helping customers make faster, smarter decisions at a time when many companies are still struggling to figure out how to use the tech effectively.
Why it matters: Tech companies have poured billions into generative AI while many of their enterprise customers have yet to identify problems the technology is ready to solve today.
The future, chock-full ofsuper-stealth warplanes, blinding-fast missiles and network-crippling hacks, will also feature aerostats — specialty blimps, for the uninitiated.
Why it matters: For all the hoopla bleeding-edge technologies generate, it can be the simplest tools that prove most effective and long-standing.
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday.
The big picture: The former global public policy director at Facebook, now Meta, will allege that Facebook cooperated with China's ruling Communist Party, per her opening testimony, as seen by Axios.
