Tina Nguyen

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I would like to inform the Bluesky community that Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael is crashing out on X right now

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Meet the Pentagon’s AI bro squad A former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire are working with Pete Hegseth to make Anthropic cave on its ethics policies.

Read more about yesterday's fight over whether Anthropic should allow AI autonomous lethal weaponry with no human oversight (and more!) in this week's Regulator! (Gift link below)

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

And Steve Feinberg should be familiar to anyone who tracks Wall Street news cycles:

Emil Michael has a very fun history that @theverge.com readers should be familiar with:

NEW: Pete Hegseth brought some VERY interesting people with him to the Pentagon's negotiations with Anthropic over their acceptable use policy:

Political appointees Emil Michael, formerly of Uber, and Steve Feinberg, the private equity billionaire founder of Cerberus Capital Management.

Meet the Pentagon’s AI bro squad A former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire are working with Pete Hegseth to make Anthropic cave on its ethics policies.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

Oh my god I didn’t even realize Emil fucking Michael is the CTO of the Defense Department until @tinanguyen.bsky.social pointed it out

Bezos could have saved WaPo’s sports and local journalists. He laid them off instead. “The equation isn’t adding up.”

(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.

The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.

www.theverge.com/policy/87683...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.

If you're going to read anything today, go read this

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In his view, Trump has handed China a massive advantage in the AI race against China: "[Their] main constraint at the moment is not power, not money, not talent. It’s chips. And we are now basically filling that hole for them."

Did America just lose the AI race to China? Biden’s national security adviser tells The Verge why the Trump-Nvidia chip deal could be catastrophic.

Regulator is opening 2026 with an interview with someone who'd know a thing or two about the Trump-Nvidia chip deal:

Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under President Joe Biden, who had implemented the restrictions on selling high-end chips to China.

www.theverge.com/policy/85681...

Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar Pubkey wants to “soften” Bitcoin’s rough public image in DC.

I went to the opening for PubKey, a Bitcoin bar originally from NY with a new location in downtown DC. It was wacky and wild and had several Santas, Chinese lion dancers, a mariachi band, and more.

But the weirdest thing of all were the federal employees in suits.

www.theverge.com/policy/84913...

Today:
- @elizabethkim.bsky.social on Mamdani's transition;
- @elienyc.bsky.social on SCOTUS and executive power,
- @tinanguyen.bsky.social on Trump & AI regulation;
- @theatlantic.com's Valerie Trapp on self-checkout culture at the grocery story

Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks A controversial executive order dictating America’s AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.

Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

We had to ensure several times that Nilay did, indeed, want this to be the official headline of this story

Trust me, we had to ask several times if this was really the one Nilay wanted to go with

He was ADAMANT

In Regulator's latest issue, I speak to Charlie Bullock at the Institute for Law & AI about the draft executive order that would have punished states for writing and enforcing their own AI laws, and its "chilling effect on state legislation."

www.theverge.com/column/82993...

David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.

I did a deep dive into the White House's draft executive order that would have counteracted states' abilities to write and enforce their own AI laws.

Boy, does it give David Sacks a lot of influence over setting federal AI regulatory policy!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.

Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Great moments in Verge background policy here btw - @tinanguyen.bsky.social nailed this one

This viral AI pen didn’t help me cheat Don’t fall for the YouTube videos of ‘AI smart pens’ helping students cheat on paper tests. We tried one and it sucks. by Elissa Welle Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales

the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad www.theverge.com/report/82215...

Trump Draft Executive Order on AI Law Preemption

Operative word being "draft"; which you can also read here

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

I obtained a draft of the WH's executive order that would ban state AI laws via at least FOUR agencies

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

‘New media’ is just right-wing media Podcasts, but not those podcasts.

"New media" used to broadly describe traditional outlets that published traditional news, but online. But these days in DC, powerful Republicans now use “new media” as a polite catch-all for “right-wing media.”

My latest reporting in this week's Regulator:

www.theverge.com/column/79990...

Trump rolled YouTube into paying $22 million for his ballroom “This is a political payoff, pure and simple.”

Here’s @tinanguyen.bsky.social detailing the results of the incredible settlement YouTube paid to Trump for no reason except cowardice www.theverge.com/policy/79135...

Donald Trump and Silicon Valley have formed an alliance — but that doesn’t mean the MAGA base thinks it’s a good idea.

This week @tinanguyen.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the many ways the MAGA movement isn’t on side with Big Tech.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/296_...

When I read @tinanguyen.bsky.social’s recent piece on visiting NatCon and seeing MAGA leaders openly criticize tech executives and their companies, I knew I had to have Tina on the show. It was a really insightful conversation!