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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 White House’s latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws fails as several Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan game (Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 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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Microsoft launches internal AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, in an effort to promote “AI self-sufficiency” (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: The future of AI may be in your hands A show about the inside conversations of the…

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India approves $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling an effort launched in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India approves a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and…

Business & Money

Scripps cost cutting and AI integration are latest effort to boost profits

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

FILE PHOTO: EW Scripps Co. signage is displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange…

Technology

A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s resident philosopher, who learns Claude’s reasoning patterns in an effort to imbue him with moral sense (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Ping Wu, CEO of Cresta Grit explores what…

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Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just the outcome (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 6, 2026

Ben Thompson / Strategy: Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we…

Technology

Nvidia announces Alpamayo family of AI models, tools and datasets for AV, details collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 6, 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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Papua New Guinea says Google will build three undersea cables for the country, a $120 million effort funded by Australia, amid growing Chinese influence in the region (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 12, 2025

Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Papua New Guinea says Google will build three undersea cables for the country, a $120 million…

Politics

Rep. Jamie Raskin picks up the ball in Rep. Al Green’s effort to impeach Trump

By Frank M. EverettDecember 11, 2025

On the surface, Rep. Al Green’s effort to impeach Donald Trump failed today in the House by a vote of…

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

Palantir publishes 22-point summary of Alex Karp’s book, advocating hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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)

Browsing: effort

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 White House’s latest effort to enact legislation that would preempt state AI laws fails as several Democrats dismiss the proposal as a partisan game (Politico)

Microsoft launches internal AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, in an effort to promote “AI self-sufficiency” (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

India approves $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling an effort launched in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Scripps cost cutting and AI integration are latest effort to boost profits

A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s resident philosopher, who learns Claude’s reasoning patterns in an effort to imbue him with moral sense (Wall Street Journal)

Even if AI could take over every job, humans would invent new jobs themselves, because we value human effort and connection, not just the outcome (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Nvidia announces Alpamayo family of AI models, tools and datasets for AV, details collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Papua New Guinea says Google will build three undersea cables for the country, a $120 million effort funded by Australia, amid growing Chinese influence in the region (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

Rep. Jamie Raskin picks up the ball in Rep. Al Green’s effort to impeach Trump