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Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo pursues urgent IPO via SPAC merger for valuation below $500 million; it was last valued at $1.2 billion in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Meir Orbach / CTech: Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo pursues urgent IPO via SPAC merger for valuation below $500…

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The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents about 5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT The future is already…

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Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Chinese companies move to consolidate their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others look to China for components the U.S. considers strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Noon, an AI-native product design tool, comes out of stealth with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as planning drug research, for around $400 million (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

The information: Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as…

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Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the combined company at $1.25 billion (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the…

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OpenAI acquires technology news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes created by AI” (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft’s AI revamp, how revising its OpenAI contract “unlocked” [Microsoft’s] ability to pursue superintelligence,” more (Hayden Field/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A State of AI in the Union: we are past the inflection point, dark factories are…

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Microsoft launches internal AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, in an effort to promote “AI self-sufficiency” (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

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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

Source: Shein acquires DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and "radical transparency"in $100 million deal (Lauren Sherman/Puck)

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)

Browsing: Technology

Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo pursues urgent IPO via SPAC merger for valuation below $500 million; it was last valued at $1.2 billion in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents about 5,000 workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

Chinese companies move to consolidate their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others look to China for components the U.S. considers strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Noon, an AI-native product design tool, comes out of stealth with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as planning drug research, for around $400 million (The Information)

Sources: SpaceX offers $2 trillion-plus valuation to potential investors in IPO; SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI would have valued the combined company at $1.25 billion (Bloomberg)

OpenAI acquires technology news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes created by AI” (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft’s AI revamp, how revising its OpenAI contract “unlocked” [Microsoft’s] ability to pursue superintelligence,” more (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Microsoft launches internal AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, in an effort to promote “AI self-sufficiency” (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)