Tech’s biggest story today is power—who controls it, who builds it, and who gets to review it before the rest of us do. Elon Musk is closing one chapter of his Twitter saga by settling the SEC’s case over late stake disclosures for $1.5 million, a small figure next to the regulator’s claimed shareholder harm but still a reminder that even Silicon Valley’s biggest personalities are not entirely beyond reach. Meanwhile, Apple is quietly looking for new ways to make its most important chips in the U.S., reportedly sounding out Intel and Samsung as it seeks insurance beyond TSMC. And in AI, Washington is moving closer to the center of the action: Google, Microsoft and xAI will share frontier models with federal reviewers before release, while the White House considers a broader vetting framework. At the same time, DeepMind staff in the UK are organizing, demanding a say in how AI is used in military contexts.