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Sources: the brilliant "26" in Apple’s WWDC invite, it teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push Mac Studio and hit MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Shiny ’26’ in Apple’s WWDC invite teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push back…

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A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at more than $10 billion, which has found success by using data analytics and close ties with manufacturers to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Amanda Mull / Bloomberg: A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at over $10 billion, which has…

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A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Expo, which develops a self-titled React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform applications, raised a $45 million Series B led by Georgian (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Expo, which develops a self-titled React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform applications,…

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Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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US judge grants injunction to manufacturers of banned products "ICE Sightings – Chicagoland" Eyes Up Facebook group and mobile app, which claims DHS and DOJ violated 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: A US judge grants an injunction to the creators of the banned Facebook group “ICE Sightings…

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The Anthropic myth adds to concerns about increasing workload for open source maintainers, as many have already faced a ‘crazy’ number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

‘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)

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Sources: the brilliant "26" in Apple’s WWDC invite, it teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push Mac Studio and hit MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at more than $10 billion, which has found success by using data analytics and close ties with manufacturers to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Expo, which develops a self-titled React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform applications, raised a $45 million Series B led by Georgian (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

US judge grants injunction to manufacturers of banned products "ICE Sightings – Chicagoland" Eyes Up Facebook group and mobile app, which claims DHS and DOJ violated 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

The Anthropic myth adds to concerns about increasing workload for open source maintainers, as many have already faced a ‘crazy’ number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)