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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)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Swathi Moorthy / Economic times: Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and…

Technology

Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to ask their opinions on Claude’s moral and spiritual development and whether he could be considered a “child of God” (Washington Post)

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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How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost and workload reductions (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

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…

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AI coding agents will radically change both the practice and economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

Asia

Vietnam protests China’s development of controversial reef in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

By Frank M. EverettMarch 23, 2026

Vietnam has condemned China’s land reclamation activities at the Antelope Reef in the disputed Paracel Islands, following reports of accelerated…

Technology

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, claims to generate annual revenue of more than $100 million, just eight months after its launch (TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 18, 2026

TechCrunch: Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, claims to generate annual revenue of more than $100 million, just…

Technology

Credit derivatives trading on some tech companies continues to rise amid concerns they are borrowing too much to fuel AI development (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 16, 2026

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As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become greater threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 15, 2026

Margaret-Anne floor: As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become…

Technology

Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which protects enterprise software development from ambient coding risks, raised a $19 million Series A, bringing total funding to $27 million (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which protects enterprise software development from video coding risks, has raised 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

Completely irrelevant, Trump doesn’t even know where JD Vance is

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

Sources: the brilliant "26" in Apple’s WWDC invite, it teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push Mac Studio and hit MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at more than $10 billion, which has found success by using data analytics and close ties with manufacturers to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

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)

Expo, which develops a self-titled React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform applications, raised a $45 million Series B led by Georgian (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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)

Browsing: development

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)

Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to ask their opinions on Claude’s moral and spiritual development and whether he could be considered a “child of God” (Washington Post)

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost and workload reductions (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

AI coding agents will radically change both the practice and economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities (Thomas H. Ptacek/sockpuppet.org)

Vietnam protests China’s development of controversial reef in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, claims to generate annual revenue of more than $100 million, just eight months after its launch (TechCrunch)

Credit derivatives trading on some tech companies continues to rise amid concerns they are borrowing too much to fuel AI development (Bloomberg)

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become greater threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)

Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which protects enterprise software development from ambient coding risks, raised a $19 million Series A, bringing total funding to $27 million (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)