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How India’s film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the technology to cut production times and costs, while union rules limit its use in Hollywood (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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Research involving 1,372 participants and more than 9,000 trials details “cognitive abandonment,” where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college student who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched more than 26,000 DDoS attacks targeting more than 8,000 victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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The White House’s latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws fails as several Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan game (Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual salary of up to around $18 million; China’s AI industry shunned mega-employees (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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The Artemis II lunar mission is one of the first times NASA has allowed astronauts to fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones to take photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta’s monorepo and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

Gergély Orosz / The pragmatic engineer: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three…

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Utah launches 1-year pilot program for Legion Health’s AI chatbot to refill prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Robert Hart / The edge: Utah launches 1-year pilot program for Legion Health’s AI chatbot to refill prescriptions for 15…

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Musk asks banks seeking role in SpaceX IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions to integrate Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

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Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

Why hasn’t China criticized Australia’s national defense strategy? – The diplomat

Japan’s Middle Power Arming Strategy in the Indo-Pacific – The Diplomat

The man who created China’s modern navy – The Diplomat

Ending Chinese visa-free travel could cripple tourism in the Northern Marianas – Radio Free Asia

Allegiant CEO defends low-cost airline plan as Sun Country deal closes

Beer demand falls due to rising gas prices, data shows

Kool-Aid Kraft Heinz to launch electrolytes without artificial colors

Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

Trump FDA Commissioner Marty Makary absent

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

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Cisco reports third-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $15.84 billion, compared to an estimated $15.56 billion, forecasts fourth-quarter revenue above estimates and cuts nearly 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps more than 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

The FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien said pre-orders for the T1 phone would begin shipping to customers this week and the device would be assembled in the United States, after months of delays (Michelle Del Rey/USA Today)

Browsing: Technology

How India’s film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the technology to cut production times and costs, while union rules limit its use in Hollywood (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

Research involving 1,372 participants and more than 9,000 trials details “cognitive abandonment,” where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college student who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched more than 26,000 DDoS attacks targeting more than 8,000 victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

The White House’s latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws fails as several Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan game (Politico)

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is seeking a chief scientist with an annual salary of up to around $18 million; China’s AI industry shunned mega-employees (Bloomberg)

The Artemis II lunar mission is one of the first times NASA has allowed astronauts to fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones to take photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta’s monorepo and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

Utah launches 1-year pilot program for Legion Health’s AI chatbot to refill prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Musk asks banks seeking role in SpaceX IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions to integrate Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)