President Joe Biden delivered a speech Monday defending his foreign policy legacy after a term that was defined by a level of geopolitical instability unseen since the end of the Cold War. Speaking at the State Department, Biden, 82, began by declaring the post-Cold War period over and acknowledging that great power geopolitical competition has returned. The U.S. is on top in this new era of revived competition thanks to his performance as president, Biden argued.

The Biden administration prepared new action Monday to regulate artificial intelligence before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week, forcing the incoming administration to make quick decisions about restricting emerging technology.

The Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion plans new controls for advanced AI chips and proposed model weights with the intention of keeping top tech out of foreign adversaries’ hands while sharing it with U.S. allies.

Jack Lew was nominated by President Joe Biden as the US ambassador to Israel in early September 2023 — a month before Hamas’s invasion and massacre in southern Israel. He arrived to take up the post a month after that catastrophe. His time here, now coming to an end with the return of Donald Trump to the White House, has been a period of terrible crisis, as he puts it, “from beginning to end.”

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg slammed the Biden Administration for censorship, took shots at one of his biggest tech rivals and said he’s “optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump during a wide-ranging interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan.

Wearing a brown T-shirt and gold-chain, the suddenly conservative-sounding tech tycoon spent the first hour of the nearly three-hour sit-down discussing the strong-arm tactics Team Biden used to silence those who cast doubt on the COVID vaccine – a topic dear to Rogan’s heart.

Mark Zuckerberg unloaded on President Joe Biden and his administration during a surprise appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that was published Friday.

Zuckerberg attacked the White House over the way senior officials pressured Meta to moderate content on its social media networks, part of a scathing interview just 10 days before Biden is set to leave office.

Mark Zuckerberg spent this week reshaping Meta to be more MAGA-friendly, and capped it off Friday by calling for the "repopulation" of the "cultural elite class" on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Why it matters: Over the last few days, Meta has dropped internal DEI guidelines and opened the floodgates for hate speech, racism, and conspiracy theories, but Zuckerberg's comments on Rogan tie him explicitly to right-wing talking points.

Even before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office on Jan. 20, the first shot in the next battle of the trade war between the United States and China may have already been fired. That’s because, on Jan.  19, the Chinese-owned social media platform must either be sold to an American company or be banned from the United States.

Days ahead of the showdown in TikTok v Garland—and a fortnight before TikTok could vanish from Americans’ smartphones—the legal debate over the wildly popular social-media site is coming into focus. On one side of this Supreme Court dispute are the Biden administration and lawmakers who warn that TikTok’s links to the Chinese government threaten national security. On the other are ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), free-speech advocates, some of the estimated 170m Americans who regularly scroll the app and Donald Trump, the president-elect.