The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

Where has all the weirdness gone?

Reason’s Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown debate Breaking Points’ Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim on the value of Big Tech. Watch it Wednesday, December 10, 7 p.m. at Miracle Theatre in Washington, D.C. Tickets are limited. Save your seat … Continued

Meher Sethi discusses how the app-store duopoly enables government pressure, including censorship of apps like ICEBlock, and poses growing risks to democracy.

A judge said artificial intelligence would upend Google’s dominance, but two new books argue that monopolies rarely fix themselves.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google debuted an updated version of its artificial intelligence model, Gemini, that executives said represents a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability.

Melissa Holyoak, one of three commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission, is stepping down from her post Monday following her appointment as interim US Attorney for the District of Utah, according to a statement from the FTC.