Browsing: April

Technology

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will close its doors on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 14, 2026

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will…

Technology

EU legislation allowing voluntary analysis of CSAM by technology and social media companies expired on April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s IPO for $2 trillion? Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure The Big Technology…

Technology

The Senate confirms Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy left when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Martin Matishak / The file: The Senate confirms that Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd will lead the NSA and U.S. Cyber…

Business & Money

FDA vaccine chief to resign in April after series of controversial decisions

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration logo is seen before a news conference at Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington,…

Technology

Apple stock fell 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following the FTC’s scrutiny of Apple News and reports of delays with Siri (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 13, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: “Engineers become wizards” | The Future of Software Development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu Interviews with world-class…

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The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data banned under a court order and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: The future of AI devices, AI fashion, blending reality and computing…

Technology

data center contracts reached $61 billion globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled year-over-year to $182 billion, with Meta raising $62 billion in debt since 2022, about 50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s potential, Google’s fast model and co-pilot encounter turbulence The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Big Tech’s domination of the S&P 500 is becoming more and more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Meatbags,” with Brian Mueller The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long…

Technology

Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap in intraday trading, making it third public company to reach that milestone; AAPL is up 56% since its April low (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 28, 2025

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap in intraday trading, making it third public company to reach…

Technology

An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung’s first design director in April, on creating a “consistent experience” across devices and more (Verity Burns/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 27, 2025

Featured Podcasts Acquired: Trader Joe’s Discover the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies and how you can apply them…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Browsing: April

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will close its doors on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

EU legislation allowing voluntary analysis of CSAM by technology and social media companies expired on April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)

The Senate confirms Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as head of the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy left when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)

FDA vaccine chief to resign in April after series of controversial decisions

Apple stock fell 5% on Thursday, its worst day since April, following the FTC’s scrutiny of Apple News and reports of delays with Siri (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data banned under a court order and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)

data center contracts reached $61 billion globally in 2025; debt issuance nearly doubled year-over-year to $182 billion, with Meta raising $62 billion in debt since 2022, about 50% of that in 2025 (April Roach/CNBC)

Big Tech’s domination of the S&P 500 is becoming more and more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)

Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap in intraday trading, making it third public company to reach that milestone; AAPL is up 56% since its April low (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung’s first design director in April, on creating a “consistent experience” across devices and more (Verity Burns/Wired)