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Meta plans to spend more than $10 billion to build a 1 GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, which is expected to be operational in late 2027 or early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta plans to spend more than $10 billion to build a 1 GW data center campus…

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Early 2025 Holiday Retail Results Show Modest Growth

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 12, 2026

Some retailers released preliminary holiday results Monday that showed the crucial shopping season was strong but did not disappoint expectations.…

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Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access to all users through a new web interface on Alexa.com and now allows users to upload documents, emails and images (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The High Growth Handbook: Molly Graham’s Frameworks for Managing Chaos, Change, and Scale Interviews with world-class…

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Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in November 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, was released early due to the First Step Act, Trump’s prison reform law (CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 3, 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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The Pentagon is partnering with xAI to integrate the company’s frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil beginning in early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How brands stay visible when AI decides | James Cadwallader, CEO Deep Grit explores what it takes…

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Early education real estate attracts big money for young child care

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 3, 2025

A Fortec adaptive reuse project in Barrington, Illinois.Courtesy of: FortecA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property…

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Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for around $2,440, in China this year and in the United States as early as the first quarter of 2026 (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Tim Cook’s Senior Year?, The Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push The Big Technology…

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Apple steps up CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, could step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as likely successor (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

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Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 26, 2025

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and…

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Sources: X advertising chief John Nitti, who joined X in January, has left; X’s chief financial officer, Mahmoud Reza Banki, left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 24, 2025

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X advertising chief John Nitti, who joined X in January, has left; X’s financial…

Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

Why hasn’t China criticized Australia’s national defense strategy? – The diplomat

Japan’s Middle Power Arming Strategy in the Indo-Pacific – The Diplomat

Ending Chinese visa-free travel could cripple tourism in the Northern Marianas – Radio Free Asia

The geopolitics of the Trump-Xi meeting – The Diplomat

Allegiant CEO defends low-cost airline plan as Sun Country deal closes

Beer demand falls due to rising gas prices, data shows

Kool-Aid Kraft Heinz to launch electrolytes without artificial colors

Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

Trump FDA Commissioner Marty Makary absent

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Cisco reports third-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $15.84 billion, compared to an estimated $15.56 billion, forecasts fourth-quarter revenue above estimates and cuts nearly 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps more than 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

The FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O’Brien said pre-orders for the T1 phone would begin shipping to customers this week and the device would be assembled in the United States, after months of delays (Michelle Del Rey/USA Today)

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Meta plans to spend more than $10 billion to build a 1 GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, which is expected to be operational in late 2027 or early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Early 2025 Holiday Retail Results Show Modest Growth

Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access to all users through a new web interface on Alexa.com and now allows users to upload documents, emails and images (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in November 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, was released early due to the First Step Act, Trump’s prison reform law (CNBC)

The Pentagon is partnering with xAI to integrate the company’s frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil beginning in early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)

Early education real estate attracts big money for young child care

Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for around $2,440, in China this year and in the United States as early as the first quarter of 2026 (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)

Apple steps up CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, could step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as likely successor (Financial Times)

Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: X advertising chief John Nitti, who joined X in January, has left; X’s chief financial officer, Mahmoud Reza Banki, left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)