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A profile of BlackBerry’s QNX division, whose operating system controls the security features of 275 million cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry’s revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better position than ever as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 21, 2026

Ben Thompson / Strategy: Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in…

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Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky is suing his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now part of Apple’s design team, alleging improper use of funds and theft of intellectual property (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Live from Nvidia’s Nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over technology and the future of banking AI A…

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PayPal is expanding access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru and Malawi (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Creating Prediction Markets (and Suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara Stripe co-founder…

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on the daily lives of a production for use in post-production (Todd Spangler/Variety)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based…

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Lenovo’s Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, de-Googled version of Android, to pre-install GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The design process is dead. Here’s what replaces it. | Jenny Wen (design manager at Claude)…

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Multiple responses from DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded its flagship AI model’s pop-up from 128,000 tokens to more than 1 million (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 12, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: No one has won the AI Bowl A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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TSMC’s conservative approach to capital spending is leading to supply-demand imbalances and a revenue shortfall, and hyperscalers must make Samsung or Intel their rivals (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: The Safest Dollar on the Internet | Jeremy Allaire, CEO of the Circle Grit explores what it…

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Coding startup Vibe Emergent raised a $70 million Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, following a $23 million Series A in September 2025, and claims more than 5 million users (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Coding startup Vibe Emergent raised a $70 million Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank…

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A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering more than 285 million views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are Google’s Geminis winning?, Drama of thinking machines, The potential of Claude Cowork The Big…

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Olivia Enos and Mira Rapp-Hooper join RFA board of directors – Radio Free Asia

Satellite imagery reveals increased activity at North Korean nuclear complex – Radio Free Asia

Solomon Islands political crisis won’t ‘fundamentally change’ relations with Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The growing GLP-1 market

Spirit Airlines is about to close its doors. What travelers need to know

Trump says he will raise EU auto tariffs to 25% without specifying how

Trump says government has presented ‘final’ bailout proposal for Spirit Airlines as liquidation nears

Why prediction platforms are missing

Trump’s Iran War Killed Spirit Airlines, So White House Blames Joe Biden

Trump brags about being tested for dementia, says his supporters couldn’t pass the test

Trump’s Iran War Is Officially a Disaster for the Republican Party

Trump flatly threatens Disney in his efforts for 86 Jimmy Kimmel

Trump walks around the White House sticking coins on the doors

A profile of BlackBerry’s QNX division, whose operating system controls the security features of 275 million cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry’s revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway technology to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at between $120 million and $140 million (The Economic Times)

Maryland becomes first US state to ban price monitoring at grocery stores, as other states including Colorado, California, Massachusetts, Illinois and New Jersey consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)

After Trump’s World Liberty raised $550 million from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars were sold privately in “white glove” transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

An investigation reveals that Nobitex was founded by two brothers from the Iranian Kharrazi family; crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

Browsing: Ben

A profile of BlackBerry’s QNX division, whose operating system controls the security features of 275 million cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry’s revenue (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better position than ever as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky is suing his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now part of Apple’s design team, alleging improper use of funds and theft of intellectual property (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

PayPal is expanding access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru and Malawi (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on the daily lives of a production for use in post-production (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Lenovo’s Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, de-Googled version of Android, to pre-install GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Multiple responses from DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded its flagship AI model’s pop-up from 128,000 tokens to more than 1 million (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

TSMC’s conservative approach to capital spending is leading to supply-demand imbalances and a revenue shortfall, and hyperscalers must make Samsung or Intel their rivals (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Coding startup Vibe Emergent raised a $70 million Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, following a $23 million Series A in September 2025, and claims more than 5 million users (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering more than 285 million views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)