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Silicon Valley tech workers are increasingly experimenting with gray market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, to improve focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

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Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1″ sensor and 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Ugly Citizen”, with Quinn Nelson The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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A teardown of Huawei’s Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows that 57% of components were made in China; Similar-priced Huawei phones in 2023 featured 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Takehiro Hasegawa / Nikkei Asia: A teardown of Huawei’s Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows that 57% of…

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Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot has raised more than $300 million, led by China Mobile’s Industrial Investment Fund, at a valuation of $3 billion, bringing its total funding to $800 million (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Ugly Citizen”, with Quinn Nelson The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Surveillance tools exported by China, based on American technology and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal, are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 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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The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, transferring ownership of TikTok to Trump allies, while maintaining the supposedly problematic ties to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 19, 2025

Karl Bode / Technical dirt: The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, transferring ownership of TikTok to…

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David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia’s AI H200 chips, because the country wants it "semiconductor independence" and to "support and subsidize Huawei" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 12, 2025

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia’s H200 AI chips because the country wants ‘semiconductor independence’…

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Intel this year tested chipmaking tools from California-based ACM Research, which has deep ties to China; ACM’s two overseas units were targeted by U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 12, 2025

Featured Podcasts Access: Why the next frontier of AI lies in phone calls, with Maxime Germain, CEO of Beside A…

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Nvidia says it hasn’t seen "justification or advice received" on chip smuggling through data centers outside China, after The Information’s DeepSeek article (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 10, 2025

Marc Bergen / Bloomberg: Nvidia says it has seen “no justification or received advice” regarding chip smuggling through data centers…

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Filing: JD.com’s JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to about $420 million in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 3, 2025

Reuters: Filing: JD.com’s JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Netflix (NFLX) Q1 2026 Results

Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Some shareholders question whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have proposed Bret Taylor as successor (Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: China

Silicon Valley tech workers are increasingly experimenting with gray market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, to improve focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)

Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1″ sensor and 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (Siddharth/GSMArena.com)

A teardown of Huawei’s Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows that 57% of components were made in China; Similar-priced Huawei phones in 2023 featured 32% Chinese components (Takehiro Hasegawa/Nikkei Asia)

Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot has raised more than $300 million, led by China Mobile’s Industrial Investment Fund, at a valuation of $3 billion, bringing its total funding to $800 million (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on American technology and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal, are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, transferring ownership of TikTok to Trump allies, while maintaining the supposedly problematic ties to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt)

David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia’s AI H200 chips, because the country wants it "semiconductor independence" and to "support and subsidize Huawei" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Intel this year tested chipmaking tools from California-based ACM Research, which has deep ties to China; ACM’s two overseas units were targeted by U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

Nvidia says it hasn’t seen "justification or advice received" on chip smuggling through data centers outside China, after The Information’s DeepSeek article (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Filing: JD.com’s JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to about $420 million in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)