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A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are wrong, vertical SaaS up +3% in the last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other thoughts on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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paid subscriptions more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala, which failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

John Sakellariadis / Policy: Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former CISA…

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A look at the decade-long feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei compared Altman’s legal fight with Musk to Hitler’s fight against Stalin (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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embrace government-led industrial policy in favor of local manufacturing, AI unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities reveal how difficult it is to turn language into a binary market, with payoffs dependent on a single word (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya raised $2.5 billion in private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix’s Solidigm, Cisco and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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Indonesia begins implementing regulations that ban those under 16 from accessing digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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Sony Japan is temporarily suspending order fulfillment for almost all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to SSD memory shortage (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: Sony Japan temporarily suspends order fulfillment for almost all of its CFexpress and SD memory card…

‘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

A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are wrong, vertical SaaS up +3% in the last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other thoughts on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

paid subscriptions more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala, which failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

A look at the decade-long feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei compared Altman’s legal fight with Musk to Hitler’s fight against Stalin (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

embrace government-led industrial policy in favor of local manufacturing, AI unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)

Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities reveal how difficult it is to turn language into a binary market, with payoffs dependent on a single word (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

Taiwanese memory chip maker Nanya raised $2.5 billion in private placement from Sandisk, SK Hynix’s Solidigm, Cisco and Kioxia to expand advanced chip production (Reuters)

Indonesia begins implementing regulations that ban those under 16 from accessing digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)

Sony Japan is temporarily suspending order fulfillment for almost all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to SSD memory shortage (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)