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A look at China’s booming robotics sector, which now has around 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investment (Chang Che/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 21, 2026

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Pentagon says Anthropic’s use of foreign workers, especially Chinese, poses security risks and its case is ‘different’ from other companies (Maria Curi/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

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Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Social radars: Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator’s…

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CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft’s recommendations to harden Intune, a workforce access management tool, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft’s recommendations to harden Intune, a workforce access management tool,…

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UK government withdraws proposal to allow AI companies to train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (Graham Fraser/BBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are we screwed if AI works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin The Big Technology Podcast…

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Companies are starting to track employee AI token usage and account for costs to measure their return on AI investment and prevent potential token abuse (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 18, 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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Pentagon discusses plans to establish secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O’Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 18, 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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Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time or irregular suppliers, raised a $40 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to more than $120 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

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JPMorgan curbs lending to private credit companies and reduces software loans

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 11, 2026

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, United States, Thursday, November…

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The war in Iran complicates Gulf countries’ plans to spend more than $300 billion on AI investments, endangering a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

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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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A look at China’s booming robotics sector, which now has around 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investment (Chang Che/The Guardian)

Pentagon says Anthropic’s use of foreign workers, especially Chinese, poses security risks and its case is ‘different’ from other companies (Maria Curi/Axios)

Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chip manufacturing and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)

CISA warns US companies to follow Microsoft’s recommendations to harden Intune, a workforce access management tool, after a cyberattack on Stryker last week (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

UK government withdraws proposal to allow AI companies to train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (Graham Fraser/BBC)

Companies are starting to track employee AI token usage and account for costs to measure their return on AI investment and prevent potential token abuse (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Pentagon discusses plans to establish secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data (James O’Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Candex, which helps large companies pay small, one-time or irregular suppliers, raised a $40 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to more than $120 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

JPMorgan curbs lending to private credit companies and reduces software loans

The war in Iran complicates Gulf countries’ plans to spend more than $300 billion on AI investments, endangering a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)