SpaceX on Friday signed a blockbuster cloud computing agreement under which Google will pay the Elon Musk-founded rocket company $920 million per month for access to a massive cluster of AI chips, according to a disclosure in its initial public offering filing. The deal, which will bolster SpaceX’s finances ahead of its IPO on June … Read more
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration last year unlawfully paused final immigration decisions for individuals from countries affected by its so-called travel ban. The lawsuit, brought forward in March by various nonprofits representing immigrants, criticized several Citizenship and Immigration Services policies that paused final decisions on asylum, green card and citizenship applications … Read more
The following is sponsored content by Bromwich+Smith and originally appeared here. “I had taken out some payday loans, cash money loans, things like that, and I could pay them, I could keep them paid, but it was basically living paycheque to paycheque.” This is how Ryan (a pseudonym) described the early days of his financial … Read more
In Washington, D.C., top Democrats are increasingly worried about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s mounting controversies ahead of Tuesday’s primary. But in Maine’s Hancock County, where Platner lives, some supporters are standing by him. One day after the New York Times published a report detailing allegations of Platner’s “toxic” behavior in his prior romantic relationships … Read more
Democrats are well positioned to take back the House of Representatives this November, but the Senate is a whole other dogfight. In order to flip the upper chamber, Democrats will need to defeat entrenched incumbents, and win in states where they’re usually at a disadvantage. Virtually all roads to a Democratic Senate majority run through … Read more
Across four documentaries — the Oscar- and Grammy-winning “Summer of Soul,” “Sly Lives,” “Ladies and Gentlemen, 50 Years of Saturday Night Live Music” and the new “Earth, Wind & Fire (to Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World),” which arrives on HBO Sunday night — Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, drummer and leader of the Roots … Read more
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. Apparently, June is “gamesmanship” month at the Supreme Court. Last year, Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the GOP-appointed majority of rewarding the Trump administration’s “gamesmanship” in the birthright citizenship litigation. This week, she accused the majority of rewarding Alabama’s “gamesmanship” in redistricting litigation. Last year’s claim stemmed from how the … Read more
Lee Sung Jin, the creator, executive producer and director of “Beef,” and Jason Bateman, who executive produced, directed and starred in “Black Rabbit,” sat down with Variety’s Clayton Davis to discuss their directing techniques and stylistic choices. Variety moderated this conversation in partnership with Netflix. Lee – who directed one episode in “Beef” Season 1 … Read more
Dozens of advertising and media buying executives convened in late April at an event space near the west side of New York City, eager to get a look at what Paramount Skydance had to offer in its first “upfront” market under the control of CEO David Ellison. Attendees sat at long tables, dined on exquisitely … Read more
Tova Noel, a former prison guard who has said she believes she was the last person to see Jeffrey Epstein alive, sat for an interview with the House Oversight Committee last month, the first time she had spoken publicly about the convicted sex offender’s suicide. The transcript of that interview, released by the panel on … Read more