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Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Pew Research Center: Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health…

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Fintech app Toss, used by about 66% of South Korea’s 51 million people, says its FacePay service, available at 330,000 outlets, has attracted 4.8 million users since September (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: Fintech app Toss, used by about 66% of South Korea’s 51 million people, says its…

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Sources: White House unease over Mythos has some administration officials worried the change represents a reversal of its hands-off policy on AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Sources: The White House’s unease over Mythos has caused some administration officials to worry that the change…

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French prosecutors are elevating an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on allegations of algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI agents: mirage or real revolution? — With Dmitri Shevelenko The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Alphabet and Amazon generated “other revenue” totaling $53 billion in the first quarter, or about 60% of their first quarter revenue; $49 billion was owed to stakes in private companies (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI agents: mirage or real revolution? — With Dmitri Shevelenko The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to recover computing” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI agents: mirage or real revolution? — With Dmitri Shevelenko The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that lets AI agents download generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user’s account (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: “AI Coachella” professor wants to take over data centers A show about the inside conversations of the…

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MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwanese R&D data center, powered by Nvidia’s B200 platform and built on Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD infrastructure (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: The OpenAI trial Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky lift the…

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Analysis: South Korea’s stock market overtakes Canada’s for seventh in the world, led by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose shares have more than doubled since the start of the year (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: Analysis: South Korea’s stock market overtakes Canada’s for seventh place in the world, driven by Samsung…

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Arm expects the AGI processor, its own data center AI chip, to generate $2 billion in sales in fiscal 2027 and 2028, doubling its March 2026 sales forecast for the period (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

Simon Sharwood / The register: Arm expects the AGI processor, its own data center AI chip, to generate $2 billion…

‘Seismic shift’ to Australia’s orbit likely under new Solomon Islands PM – Radio Free Asia

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

5 years later – The diplomat

Transnational repression against Hong Kongers in the UK is worrying – 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

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)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Browsing: Technology

Surveys: Half of U.S. adults under 50 get health information from influencers or podcasts; 86% of health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)

Fintech app Toss, used by about 66% of South Korea’s 51 million people, says its FacePay service, available at 330,000 outlets, has attracted 4.8 million users since September (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Sources: White House unease over Mythos has some administration officials worried the change represents a reversal of its hands-off policy on AI (Wall Street Journal)

French prosecutors are elevating an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on allegations of algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Alphabet and Amazon generated “other revenue” totaling $53 billion in the first quarter, or about 60% of their first quarter revenue; $49 billion was owed to stakes in private companies (Robin Wigglesworth/Financial Times)

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to recover computing” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that lets AI agents download generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user’s account (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwanese R&D data center, powered by Nvidia’s B200 platform and built on Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD infrastructure (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Analysis: South Korea’s stock market overtakes Canada’s for seventh in the world, led by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose shares have more than doubled since the start of the year (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

Arm expects the AGI processor, its own data center AI chip, to generate $2 billion in sales in fiscal 2027 and 2028, doubling its March 2026 sales forecast for the period (Simon Sharwood/The Register)