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OpenAI releases framework of five principles for AGI development, pledging to resist the concentration of AI power and collaborate with businesses and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 27, 2026

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Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it’s a great achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 27, 2026

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Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A…

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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

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Google controls about 25% of global AI computing, with about 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify spending (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

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About 60% said they retained access to social media accounts after the ban; two-thirds say platforms have taken no action to remove accounts (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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Jensen Huang’s security cost dropped from $690,000 in 2023 to $3.5 million in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22 million (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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‘Seismic shift’ to Australia’s orbit likely under new Solomon Islands PM – Radio Free Asia

The fall of Victory Day in Kazakhstan – The Diplomat

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

Pakistan and the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Electricity prices on the largest U.S. power grid, operated by PJM, jumped 76% year-over-year to an average of $136.53/MWh in the first quarter due to rampant data center demand (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Kraken cut about 150 employees after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO could be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to falling digital asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI releases framework of five principles for AGI development, pledging to resist the concentration of AI power and collaborate with businesses and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it’s a great achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Google controls about 25% of global AI computing, with about 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify spending (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

About 60% said they retained access to social media accounts after the ban; two-thirds say platforms have taken no action to remove accounts (Sasha Rogelberg/Fortune)

Jensen Huang’s security cost dropped from $690,000 in 2023 to $3.5 million in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22 million (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)