
Trump Administration

Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs | TechCrunch
The Trump administration made an unprecedented, and confusing, move last week when it announced plans to convert money Intel was supposed to receive through Joe Biden-era government grant programs into a 10% equity stake. While it remains unclear if converting those government grants into equity is even possible — that’s up for debate — it’s…

The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe | TechCrunch
Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of fresh-faced hackers and software engineers —…