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Disney plans to cut up to 1,000 employees

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

People gather at the Magic Kingdom theme park before the “Festival of Fantasy” parade at Walt Disney World in Orlando,…

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Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala, which failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

John Sakellariadis / Policy: Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former CISA…

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Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Eli Tan / New York Times: Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday,…

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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…

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OpenAI aims to grow to around 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, up from around 4,500 today, in a bid to halt Anthropic’s momentum with enterprise customers (Financial 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…

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Letter to shareholders: Crypto exchange Gemini has reduced its workforce by around 30% since the start of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost more than $500 million in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Letter to shareholders: Crypto exchange Gemini has reduced its workforce by around 30% since the start…

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Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially…

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How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10 billion in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage more than 30,000 employees (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Shyam Sankar – Celebrating Heretics The leading destination for learning about business and investing.…

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Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants worth more than $100 million to be removed because of their connection to DEI (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI revenues explode, Dario’s memo, McDonald’s CEO’s baby burger The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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

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

Netflix (NFLX) Q1 2026 Results

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

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

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Disney plans to cut up to 1,000 employees

Anthropic completes employee tender offer at a valuation of $350 billion, short of the $6 billion investors sought because employees held shares before the IPO (Bloomberg)

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; employees held a polygraph test for former acting CISA director Madhu Gottumukkala, which failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Source: Meta laid off about 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit on Wednesday, as well as some in recruiting, sales and Facebook (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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)

OpenAI aims to grow to around 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, up from around 4,500 today, in a bid to halt Anthropic’s momentum with enterprise customers (Financial Times)

Letter to shareholders: Crypto exchange Gemini has reduced its workforce by around 30% since the start of 2026 and had 445 employees as of March 1; Gemini lost more than $500 million in 2025 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10 billion in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage more than 30,000 employees (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants worth more than $100 million to be removed because of their connection to DEI (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)