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about 84% said they don’t trust U.S. tech companies with their personal data; 93% don’t trust Chinese companies (Ellen O’Regan/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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Private jet companies battle for biggest spending customers at Masters

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Vista House, a private home in Westlake, Georgia sponsored by Vista Global during the Masters.Credit: VistaJetA version of this article…

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A pro-Iran cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that took both companies’ websites offline this month (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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A look at the gold rush for companies claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

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Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

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The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has enabled workers to generate huge volumes of code, forcing companies to scramble to review and secure AI-generated code (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

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

Chinese companies move to consolidate their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others look to China for components the U.S. considers strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to location videos (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 22, 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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A look at “tokenmaxxing,” a status game in which employees from multiple companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they use (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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…

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

Local car dealerships grow, die amid rise of auto mega-retailers

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

Cognitively declining Trump wants praise for ability to sign his name

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

A look at AI METR, a nonprofit organization whose time horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

US judge grants injunction to manufacturers of banned products "ICE Sightings – Chicagoland" Eyes Up Facebook group and mobile app, which claims DHS and DOJ violated 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

The Anthropic myth adds to concerns about increasing workload for open source maintainers, as many have already faced a ‘crazy’ number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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about 84% said they don’t trust U.S. tech companies with their personal data; 93% don’t trust Chinese companies (Ellen O’Regan/Politico)

Private jet companies battle for biggest spending customers at Masters

A pro-Iran cybercrime group claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime and Pinterest that took both companies’ websites offline this month (Bloomberg)

A look at the gold rush for companies claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has enabled workers to generate huge volumes of code, forcing companies to scramble to review and secure AI-generated code (New York Times)

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)

Chinese companies move to consolidate their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others look to China for components the U.S. considers strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to location videos (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

A look at “tokenmaxxing,” a status game in which employees from multiple companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they use (Kevin Roose/New York Times)