A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions was unlawful, giving technology companies temporary relief from a policy that threatened to raise the cost of hiring foreign skilled workers.
The decision removes, at least for now, a major cost burden for employers that use the H-1B program to fill roles in domains including software development, cloud computing, data science, and AI.
US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston found that the fee functioned as a tax that the administration did not have authority to impose without congressional approval. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the fee.
Standard employer costs for H-1B petitions typically range from about $2,000 to $5,000, making the proposed $100,000 payment a sharp increase for companies seeking foreign talent.
The ruling is unlikely to end uncertainty for employers, with the Trump administration expected to appeal. But it
US embassy came out against UK’s proposed under-16 social media ban, which would affect American firms
White House displeasure over the prospect of an under-16 social media ban will not deter the UK from cracking down on tech platforms, the British government has said.
The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, told the Guardian she was not concerned “in the slightest” by the Trump administration’s intervention in the debate over restrictions, after the US embassy in London posted a notice warning against a ban.
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Sriram Krishnan, senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence at the White House, is departing the Trump administration at the end of June after 18 months shaping US AI policy from inside the executive branch. Krishnan, a former product leader at Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Snap, and most recently a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was among […]
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s order imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications. The ruling gives relief to U.S. technology companies that rely on skilled foreign workers. U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin said the charge…
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GitHub is expanding Copilot beyond the IDE with a new desktop application and a new collaborative work surface called canvas as part of its broader efforts to pitch the AI-assisted coding tool as the control center for agent-native software development.
The desktop application announced at Microsoft’s annual Build conference this week is designed to give developers a dedicated environment for working with AI agents throughout the software development lifecycle, rather than limiting those interactions to code-generation tasks inside an editor, the company wrote in a blog post.
The application includes a collaborative workspace called canvas where developers can brainstorm ideas, refine requirements, generate plans, and iterate on projects alongside AI, it said.
It also has new Agent Merge and code review features that enable developers to automate Copilot to combine tasks of different agents to complete a specific goal or conduct autonomous code reviews according to set standards, it sa
