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Cody Combs

Cody Combs

Future Editor
Abu Dhabi
Cody Combs is Future Editor for The National, where he reports on the innovations and trends that will be impacting our world for years to come. He is also host of The National’s Business Extra podcast. Cody explores topics such artificial intelligence, consumer technology, societal trends, energy and climate, as well as other topics we probably can’t imagine yet. He has an extensive background in reporting and content creation, and is constantly looking for new ways to tell stories through the use of various platforms. Previously, Cody worked in the United States as a broadcast journalist and an investigative reporter. He earned his master’s degree in journalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Before pursuing his master’s degree, he worked at CNN’s Washington Bureau.
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The last photographed meal served to Richard Nixon at the White House in 1974, before he resigned as president, consisted of pineapple, cottage cheese and a glass of milk. Photo: US National Archives / Richard Nixon Library
What Richard Nixon's last meal in the White House tells us about food culture and legacy

US transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump stirs White House culinary memories

January 17, 2025
The US Supreme Court declined to step in and block a law that seeks to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to a US owner. AP
US Supreme Court allows TikTok ban to take effect on Sunday

ByteDance owner TikTok responds to ruling, while president-elect Trump says ‘stay tuned’

January 17, 2025
The TikTok logo on a smartphone. Bloomberg
TikTok ban deadline: ‘In no way should it go dark on Sunday,’ says Democratic senator

Edward Markey urges President Joe Biden to give TikTok more time

January 16, 2025
The US undersecretary of commerce for industry and security Alan Estevez defended the recently announced AI diffusion role. Photo: Cody Combs
US commerce official defends Biden’s AI diffusion rules after Nvidia criticisms

Alan Estevez says new artificial intelligence rules are a 'tightrope' balancing act between innovation and national security

January 15, 2025
The World Economic Forum has released its 2025 Global Risks Report just ahead of the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos. Photo: AFP
Davos 2025: Further armed conflict poses greatest risk to global order

Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine threaten to destabilise economic growth

January 15, 2025
A TikTok influencer protests outside the US Supreme Court, with the deadline on which the app could be banned in the US fast-approaching. Getty Images
Clock ticking on TikTok's future as ban date deadline approaches

ByteDance says it will not divest and social media platform will ‘go dark’ in US after January 19 deadline

January 13, 2025
US President Joe Biden's updated rules on AI have come under criticism from one of the world's most valuable and influential technology companies, Nvidia. AP
Nvidia says new Biden AI rules 'undercut US interests'

White House says new rules exempt 18 countries and allies from AI chip restrictions

January 13, 2025
Content creators in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, where TikTok argued against a law that could ban the platform in the US. AP
TikTok fights for US survival in Washington

Justices appear to be leaning toward upholding law that could ban the platform

January 10, 2025
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made a series of moves that realign his company to operate under the second Trump administration. Reuters
Big Tech's public race to curry favour with Donald Trump

Silicon Valley's elite are making donations, appearances and high-profile appointments ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration

January 10, 2025
The content moderation announcement from Meta largely overshadowed a policy shift set to put more political content in user feeds for Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Getty Images
Goodbye fact-checkers, hello political content: How Meta’s new moderation will play out

Facebook, Instagram and Threads will increase 'civic content'

January 09, 2025
Departing Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Lina Khan at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Photo: Cody Combs
Departing FTC chairwoman Lina Khan warns against 'AI hype'

Big Tech critic and merger sceptic reflects on tenure as youngest head of Federal Trade Commission

January 08, 2025
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is relinquishing himself of all sorts of responsibility and in turn, holding everyone else responsible. AFP
Mark Zuckerberg is playing to an audience of one

Meta's founder admits that content moderation is hard, but nobody said it would be easy

January 08, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg said the US presidential election felt 'like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising speech'. Reuters
Meta to replace fact checkers with community notes

Company will also move trust and safety teams from California to Texas

January 07, 2025
Social media experts describe the coming US Supreme Court hearing as a watershed moment. Reuters
US Supreme Court to hear last-gasp bid to halt TikTok ban

Social media experts reflect on ByteDance's 'watershed' Supreme Court battle

January 07, 2025
The US Government Accountability Office mentioned the UAE and Saudi Arabia's cloud-seeding programmes. Photo: UAE National Centre of Meteorology
US cloud-seeding 'limited by fragmented approach and lack of data'

UAE and Saudi Arabia's rain enhancement research programmes cited by Government Accountability Office

January 03, 2025