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Trump hosted a gala lunch for major $TRUMP holders, where he talked about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the drop in memecoin’s value (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

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A look at “Stanford inside Stanford,” where venture capital firms pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering them mentorship and funding in an effort to convert their promises into profits (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

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How the Vatican is moving faster than most traditional institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning the use of AI to write homilies, etc. (Russell Contreras/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

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Taiwan’s stock market value surpassed that of the United Kingdom at around $4.3 billion, followed closely by South Korea, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix (Bloomberg).

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 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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Citizen Lab details two espionage campaigns that exploit weaknesses in SS7 and Diameter protocols on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks to track people’s locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 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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A look at Elon Musk’s $134 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman, set to begin April 27, accusing him of going back on his vow to keep OpenAI a nonprofit (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 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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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude’s models bought, sold and traded personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 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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Europe’s dependence on American companies in the technology and financial sectors is largely its fault, after excessive regulation made European companies too weak to compete (The Economist)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

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The series, founded by two Yale seniors to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, has raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: The Legacy of Tim Cook + The Future of UBI with Andrew Yang + HatGPT The…

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JPMorgan and other banks have struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased from Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: The Legacy of Tim Cook + The Future of UBI with Andrew Yang + HatGPT The…

‘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

5 years later – 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)

Browsing: Technology

Trump hosted a gala lunch for major $TRUMP holders, where he talked about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the drop in memecoin’s value (Wall Street Journal)

A look at “Stanford inside Stanford,” where venture capital firms pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering them mentorship and funding in an effort to convert their promises into profits (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)

How the Vatican is moving faster than most traditional institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning the use of AI to write homilies, etc. (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Taiwan’s stock market value surpassed that of the United Kingdom at around $4.3 billion, followed closely by South Korea, driven by massive gains in TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix (Bloomberg).

Citizen Lab details two espionage campaigns that exploit weaknesses in SS7 and Diameter protocols on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks to track people’s locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

A look at Elon Musk’s $134 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman, set to begin April 27, accusing him of going back on his vow to keep OpenAI a nonprofit (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude’s models bought, sold and traded personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)

Europe’s dependence on American companies in the technology and financial sectors is largely its fault, after excessive regulation made European companies too weak to compete (The Economist)

The series, founded by two Yale seniors to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, has raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

JPMorgan and other banks have struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased from Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal)