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White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Monday shrugged off any negative impact of artificial intelligence on employment, saying the emergent technology isn’t costing anyone their jobs right now.”There’s no sign in the data that AI is costing anybody their job right now, but we are studying the future of AI and what it means for the workforce, so we’ve got a big taskforce on that,” Hassett told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”Hassett’s comments come amid a wave of tech layoffs, as companies like Amazon, Meta and Oracle have announced rounds of job cuts, with some emphasizing AI’s role in…

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.It’s a common view that EU growth policy amounts to stifling the first spark of entrepreneurial initiative with the dead hand of risk-averse technocracy (or “the dreaded EU working group”, as US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent quipped). It’s at least as true to say that EU policymaking is shaped by something more visceral but not necessarily better: an intense sense of Fomo.That fear of missing out is certainly the case for digital tech policy in general, and specifically for AI, the hottest…

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Sales of previously owned homes in April were essentially flat compared with March, rising just 0.2% to 4.02 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing analysts were expecting a gain of more than 3%. April sales were unchanged year over year. This count is based on closings, so contracts likely signed in late February and March. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage ended March in the high 5% range, according to Mortgage News Daily, and then shot up sharply, due to the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.”Despite…

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After decades of controlling all aspects of spaceflight, the Indian government decided in 2020 to open things up to private industry. Essentially, the government said, companies could build their own rockets, obtain permission to launch them, and even use state-operated facilities. The government and the country’s space agency, ISRO, instituted this change in response to the rise of commercial space industries in the United States, and later China, that were playing an increasingly important role in global spaceflight. Now, six years later, this structural shift is beginning to bear some fruit. The most promising Indian launch company, Skyroot Aerospace, is…

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This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice, April 29, 2026, shows Cole Tomas Allen, left, inside his hotel room, on Saturday, April 25, 2026 in Washington, using his cellphone to take a photograph of himself in the mirror.Department of Justice | APWhite House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges that include trying to assassinate President Donald Trump. Allen, who allegedly attempted to storm the ballroom at the Washington Hilton armed with a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives, entered his plea before Judge Trevor McFadden at the U.S.…

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