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Danaher agrees to acquire US medical technology company Masimo for $9.9 billion, paying $180 per share, a nearly 40% premium to the Feb. 13 close, expected to close in the second half of 2026 (Stuart Biggs/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Ramp founder Eric Glyman explains the many ways AI is changing business spending Stripe co-founder John…

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Allbirds becomes latest retailer to close its physical stores

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

A woman walks past an Allbirds store in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC on February 16, 2021.Al Drago |…

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Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a manufacturing site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8 billion to expand production of DRAM memory chips, scheduled to close in the second quarter of 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 17, 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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A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay between $20 and $24 to manually close robo-taxis doors and between $60 and $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app…

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U.S. companies sold $1.7 billion worth of investment-grade bonds in 2025, close to 2020’s record $1.8 billion, driven by borrowing in AI infrastructure; Goldman says AI accounts for about 30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 23, 2025

Kate Duguid / Financial Times: U.S. companies sold $1.7 billion worth of investment-grade bonds in 2025, close to 2020’s record…

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Sources detail SoftBank’s efforts to raise needed funds as it strives to close its $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The next AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff Interviews with…

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Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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The FT’s Tim Cook retirement story could be a ‘trial balloon’ from those close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after the first quarter results report (MG Siegler/Spyglass)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots and why the world’s models are next | Dr.…

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Pony AI plans to raise $863 million in its Nov. 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3 million shares at about $17.88 each, below its Oct. 31 Nasdaq close of $18.68 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 3, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42 billion business from scratch | Melanie…

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NEC will buy U.S.-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer services and billing for telecom operators and other businesses, for about $2.9 billion in a deal expected to close in 2026 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 1, 2025

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

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

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Danaher agrees to acquire US medical technology company Masimo for $9.9 billion, paying $180 per share, a nearly 40% premium to the Feb. 13 close, expected to close in the second half of 2026 (Stuart Biggs/Bloomberg)

Allbirds becomes latest retailer to close its physical stores

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a manufacturing site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8 billion to expand production of DRAM memory chips, scheduled to close in the second quarter of 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

A look at the humans employed to save the robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay between $20 and $24 to manually close robo-taxis doors and between $60 and $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

U.S. companies sold $1.7 billion worth of investment-grade bonds in 2025, close to 2020’s record $1.8 billion, driven by borrowing in AI infrastructure; Goldman says AI accounts for about 30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)

Sources detail SoftBank’s efforts to raise needed funds as it strives to close its $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)

Essential AI, whose CEO co-authored Google’s Attention Is All You Need, unveils Rnj-1, an open 8-parameter B model with SWE test performance close to GPT-4o (Ashish Vaswani/Essential AI)

The FT’s Tim Cook retirement story could be a ‘trial balloon’ from those close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after the first quarter results report (MG Siegler/Spyglass)

Pony AI plans to raise $863 million in its Nov. 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3 million shares at about $17.88 each, below its Oct. 31 Nasdaq close of $18.68 (Bloomberg)

NEC will buy U.S.-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer services and billing for telecom operators and other businesses, for about $2.9 billion in a deal expected to close in 2026 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)