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JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, as part of global expansion to compete with Amazon (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 16, 2026

Reuters: JD.com is launching online marketplace Joybuy in the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, as part of its…

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The video game industry is shaping up to be one of the biggest casualties of the AI boom, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Embarrassing Meta Delay The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says closed hub accounts for about 33% of global helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

Inès Ferré / Yahoo Finance: Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says…

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ByteDance suspended global launch of Seedance 2.0 due to copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Embarrassing Meta Delay The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs has raised $1.03 billion at a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion to work on global models, in Europe’s largest ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

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Iran’s targeting of commercial data centers in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts about the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

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China’s Commerce Ministry warns of global chip shortage due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: China’s Commerce Ministry is warning of a global chip shortage due to “new conflicts” between Dutch…

Business & Money

Iran war threatens global travel industry as passengers remain stranded

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Zoey Gong, a Chinese dietary therapist, was days away from boarding an Emirates flight from Paris to Shanghai via Dubai,…

Technology

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has over $6 billion in global contracts, made ~$2 billion in revenue last year and is valued at ~$31 billion (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The design process is dead. Here’s what replaces it. | Jenny Wen (design manager at Claude)…

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India’s AI summit has highlighted the limits of the country’s AI ambitions, as the United States and its tech companies have largely rejected India’s push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Closes to $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question – with Aaron Levie The…

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Eco-brutalist resistance in Central Asia – The Diplomate

Uzbekistan’s new migration destination? America. – The diplomat

Trump’s new AI order raises the stakes in Sino-US tech competition – The Diplomat

‘Backrooms’ Producer Peter Chernin Thinks Hollywood Needs to Change

Boeing CEO announces 737 Max production will start on new line on July 6

Family offices are investing in sports, from pickleball to smart soccer balls

Record Broadway Ticket Sales Show Consumers Are Splurging on Experiences

Lululemon (LULU) first quarter 2026 results

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC massively backfired

Trump is erased as Kennedy Center begins removing his name

Scott Bessent collapses in front of Congress as he tries to defend Trump for not caring about Americans

Shocked Trump Loses Iran War Powers, Ballroom and Arms Fund on Same Day

At the early 2025 senior management meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple’s AI roadmap around the same time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Memory chip suppliers say CXMT’s DDR5 prices match those of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, and that they have a supply advantage in customer markets because they don’t prioritize HBM (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Q&A with Google DeepMind’s Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI’s Phil Trammell on what’s left in short supply after AGI, the redistribution of AI wealth, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds EU tech sovereignty plans, but says substantial EU involvement in leading ‘strategic projects’ is cause for concern (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

How LinkedIn is transforming into a ‘post-grind’ social network as it courts top influencers, who build audiences on business-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)

Browsing: global

JD.com launches online marketplace Joybuy in UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, as part of global expansion to compete with Amazon (Reuters)

The video game industry is shaping up to be one of the biggest casualties of the AI boom, from job losses to rising console prices due to the global RAM shortage (Helen Vogelsong-Donahue/Wired)

Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says closed hub accounts for about 33% of global helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

ByteDance suspended global launch of Seedance 2.0 due to copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)

Yann LeCun’s Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs has raised $1.03 billion at a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion to work on global models, in Europe’s largest ever seed round (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Iran’s targeting of commercial data centers in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts about the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)

China’s Commerce Ministry warns of global chip shortage due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Iran war threatens global travel industry as passengers remain stranded

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has over $6 billion in global contracts, made ~$2 billion in revenue last year and is valued at ~$31 billion (New York Times)

India’s AI summit has highlighted the limits of the country’s AI ambitions, as the United States and its tech companies have largely rejected India’s push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)