Jack Cushman, director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, has been preserving sites and data that went dark after executive orders from President Trump. He underlines the importance of keeping digital copies or risk parting with “our cultural memory.”

Sarah Kunst, managing director at Cleo Capital, foresees a culture clash as VCs take on prominent Trump administration roles. She points out that they’re used to having a few big winners while most investments fall by the wayside.

An industry is emerging that uses AI to build chatbots of people who’ve died. The BBC’s Isabel Woodford looks at the business of grief-tech.

Even famed tech companies like Netscape and Friendster that pioneer product categories can lose their dominance to new rivals. Historian Margaret O’Mara examines whether the Chinese upstart can dislodge OpenAI and Anthropic from leadership of a still nascent but already lucrative field.

Licensing boards are slow to adapt to technology, limiting the public’s access to valuable services, argues Rebecca Haw Allensworth, author of “The Licensing Racket.” To modernize their fields, she says, gatekeepers need a new mindset.

Google says it will comply with President Trump’s order to change the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” on Google Maps. Sterling Quinn, Professor of Geography at Central Washington University, explains how digital map companies have historically navigated complicated name or border changes.