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xAI filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect this summer, claiming it violates free speech protections (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Financial Times: xAI filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s landmark AI anti-discrimination law, which is set to take effect this summer,…

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OpenAI launches $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: OpenClaw for standards is here A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted by…

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By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: OpenClaw for standards is here A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted by…

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Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion starting in the first quarter, and Amazon plans to spend about $200 billion in capital spending in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion…

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hope for AI has fallen from 27% to 18% in the past year, and 50% say they use GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: When AI kills Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky lift the…

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As AI transforms white-collar work, leaders across industries say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability and regulation matter (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Financial Times: As AI transforms white-collar work, leaders across industries say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy,…

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A look at Neo, a venture capital firm that made early bets on startups like Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds well above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

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The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize more than $100 million in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer’s research (Jacob Trefethen/OpenAI Foundation)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would ban children under 15 from accessing social media from January 1, 2027 and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

Dynastic Politics in the Philippines – The Diplomat

‘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

Spirit Airlines planes head into the desert, led by repo pilots

Creator content comes into play, not just for YouTube

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

Planned Democratic investigation is first step in Trump family corruption accusations

Pete Buttigieg totally destroys Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

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

Grafana claims hackers accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent its codebase from being released; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)

Apple’s revamped Siri could launch in beta and will have an option to automatically delete chats; Apple plans to add the suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Developers say Chinese AI labs are leading their U.S. rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast libraries of short-form videos from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics company and owns a roughly 67% stake worth $13.3 billion, as AI tests SAS’s strategy (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

Fast16 malware linked to Stuxnet, designed to disrupt simulated nuclear weapons tests, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran’s nuclear ambitions (Kim Zetter/ZERO DAY)

Browsing: Technology

xAI filed a lawsuit against Colorado’s landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect this summer, claiming it violates free speech protections (Financial Times)

OpenAI launches $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

X brings voice notes back to

Annual Letter: Andy Jassy says AWS AI revenue hit an annual run rate of $15 billion starting in the first quarter, and Amazon plans to spend about $200 billion in capital spending in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

hope for AI has fallen from 27% to 18% in the past year, and 50% say they use GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)

As AI transforms white-collar work, leaders across industries say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability and regulation matter (Financial Times)

A look at Neo, a venture capital firm that made early bets on startups like Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds well above industry averages (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize more than $100 million in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer’s research (Jacob Trefethen/OpenAI Foundation)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would ban children under 15 from accessing social media from January 1, 2027 and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)