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Why Google’s newest AI team is setting up in Canada

Things are friendlier in the north.

Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman are launching a new group to rethink the Democratic Party

It’s called Win the Future, and Pincus is even courting potential WTF candidates like the frontman of ’90s rock band Third Eye Blind.

Why Hillary Clinton won’t admit that she made mistakes

New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister has a few guesses: “I’ve thought about it for 10 years.”

How New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister convinced Hillary Clinton to start talking

Traister, who profiled Clinton twice for the magazine, talks about how those stories got made on the latest Recode Media.

Democrats have hired Raffi Krikorian, a former Uber exec, as their chief technology officer

The hire — at the Democratic National Committee — comes as the party tries to improve its tech tools and cyber defenses.

A powerful group of black lawmakers is pressuring Uber to hire more diverse executives

A long list of openings means the company has an opportunity to improve its hiring practices.

A former Twitter exec explains why ‘Zuck isn’t running for President’

In a viral tweetstorm, former Ticketmaster CEO and Twitter VP Nathan Hubbard lays out a convincing case.

Google has proposed changes in laws for requesting data

General counsel Kent Walker is advocating a new approach.

China still has the world’s fastest supercomputer, but the U.S. wants to change that

The Department of Energy is granting six companies a total of $258 million to work on supercomputing technology.

Behind the scenes at President Trump’s private talks with the tech industry

For many, a meeting at the White House yesterday offered a chance to push their political and business agendas.

President Trump will ask tech executives today for help in modernizing the U.S. government

The White House is hoping tech leaders can help it improve federal services, buy better tech and tap new tools like machine learning

Watch U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ full testimony before the Senate

Sessions fielded questions about the Trump administration and Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

Trump’s social media chief violated federal law when he tweeted for the election defeat of a GOP Representative

Dan Scavino got a warning letter from the Office of Special Counsel.

These are the top revelations from former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before Congress

Just a reminder: We’re only 139 days into Donald Trump’s presidency.

How to watch former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before Congress

You may need a couple screens for this one.

Full text: Former FBI director James Comey’s prepared testimony to the U.S. Senate on his interactions with President Trump

Comey will deliver his remarks Thursday.

Republican political operatives want to sell the dark arts of opposition research to tech companies

A well-wired GOP firm is setting up shop in Silicon Valley to help tech reach conservatives.

Representative Ro Khanna wants to chat with the British prime minister about terrorism and tech

Khanna reached out to Prime Minister Theresa May after she said she wanted to “regulate cyberspace.”

Tony Fadell and HP’s Meg Whitman are matching donations to the Environmental Defense Fund

Matching ratios vary, and the campaign ends Monday.

Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump’s tweets are distracting America from important issues

“I mean, you can’t let Trump and his allies be a diversion.”

Mark Zuckerberg says Donald Trump’s decision on the Paris agreement ‘puts our children’s future at risk’

Zuckerberg isn’t happy with the President’s decision.

Apple, Facebook and Google are among the many tech giants angry with Trump’s decision to leave the Paris agreement

Many in Silicon Valley urged Trump not to withdraw from the international climate pact.

How Planned Parenthood is using technology to treat patients

Texting, video calls, apps — and, maybe one day, drones.

Laurene Powell Jobs and Senator Kamala Harris are worried about Trump and immigration

Their biggest concern is the future of the dreamers, they say at Code Conference.

Full transcript: Hillary Clinton at Code 2017

The former U.S. Secretary of State talks with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg about the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump and Russia, Russia, Russia.

Hillary Clinton says Democrats need to create more content to help win back the House

“We have a great story to tell.”

Hillary Clinton says the Russians had to be guided by Americans

She says fake news and other forms of misinformation influenced the 2016 election.

We’re liveblogging Hillary Clinton from our Code Conference

It’s one of her first onstage interviews since the 2016 election.

Watch Hillary Clinton’s full interview from our Code Conference

Clinton was interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg.

Watch U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and Laurene Powell Jobs at our Code Conference

Harris and Jobs were interviewed by Kara Swisher from our Code Conference.

Reid Hoffman could spend hundreds of millions to fix some of the country’s biggest political problems

He’s looking at issues like free speech, political engagement and fake news.

Joe Biden blasted online echo chambers in a speech at Cornell University

The former vice president pleaded with Cornell’s graduates to practice empathy and not live in their screens.