Donald Trump launched a new government website, TrumpRx.gov, aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for Americans, according to Euronews. The site, announced on Thursday, features over 40 medications from five pharmaceutical companies that reached pricing agreements with the administration: AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer. In other news, an AI startup founder is organizing a "March for Billionaires" in San Francisco to protest California's proposed wealth tax, while HBO's financial thriller "Industry" is capturing tech fraud in its latest season. Additionally, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, allowing users to share back-end data with Anthropic's chatbot system, and emails revealed that an advisor to Prince Andrew pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors.
The Trump administration framed the initiative as a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry's pricing power, Euronews reported. Trump stated, "You're going to save a fortune," and added, "This is also so good for overall healthcare." The website promises "the world's lowest prices."
Meanwhile, the "March for Billionaires" is scheduled to take place this coming Saturday in San Francisco, according to TechCrunch. The event's website, which initially sparked incredulity, features the tagline: "Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive." The organizer confirmed the march is not a joke.
HBO's "Industry" season four focuses on exposing a fraudulent fintech company called Tender, as reported by TechCrunch. The show follows Harper Stern, who is leading her new investment firm and looking to short the company. After a journalist tipped her off, Stern sent associates to Ghana to investigate. They discovered that "Fake users drive fake revenue drives fake cash," according to Sweetpea. "The entire company appears to be built on fabricated numbers. The thing is nothing."
In the tech world, WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic's chatbot system, TechCrunch reported. Users can control the specific data they share, and access can be revoked. Claude is given read-only access, preventing it from altering anything within a user's CMS.
Finally, emails released last week as part of the Department of Justice's disclosure of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein revealed that David Stern, an advisor to Prince Andrew, pitched Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors, according to TechCrunch. Stern saw an opportunity to break the logjam for Lucid Motors, which was trying to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. He wrote to Epstein, "Ford will likely be lead in 400m Series D in Lucid."
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