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Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that users can perform in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can configure their own skills or choose from over 50 presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders,…

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Google calls “back button hijacking” malicious, saying sites that interfere with a browser’s back button function could be demoted in search starting in June (Abner Li/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Scott Nolan – SpaceX, Founders Fund and Rebuilding Uranium Enrichment in the United States…

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OpenAI’s chief revenue officer says Anthropic is ‘growing its revenue share with Amazon and Google’ and overestimating its ‘run rate by about $8 billion’ (Hayden Field/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s trust problem Media and technology don’t…

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Google says Polymarket betting “appeared briefly in Google News by mistake”, after the betting appeared alongside news articles in the ‘For You’ section (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

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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Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and aimed at “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Compliance at Scale and Why TAM is a Distraction with Vanta’s Christina Cacioppo Stripe co-founder John…

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Google says all users in the United States can now change their Google account username; users are limited to one username change every 12 months (Kris Holt/Engadget)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Kris Holt / Engadget: Google says all users in the United States can now change their Google account username; users…

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A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

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U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Financial Times: U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline,…

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Google sets 2029 deadline for its post-quantum crypto migration, aiming to "securing the quantum era" as "the borders are perhaps closer than they seem" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Google sets 2029 deadline for its post-quantum crypto migration, aiming to ‘secure the quantum age’…

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Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with greater creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, compared to 30 seconds for Lyria 3 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches music generation model Lyria 3 Pro, with greater creative control and allowing users to…

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Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

Browsing: Google

Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that users can perform in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can configure their own skills or choose from over 50 presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Google calls “back button hijacking” malicious, saying sites that interfere with a browser’s back button function could be demoted in search starting in June (Abner Li/9to5Google)

OpenAI’s chief revenue officer says Anthropic is ‘growing its revenue share with Amazon and Google’ and overestimating its ‘run rate by about $8 billion’ (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Google says Polymarket betting “appeared briefly in Google News by mistake”, after the betting appeared alongside news articles in the ‘For You’ section (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing less than 50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and aimed at “high-volume video applications”, and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google says all users in the United States can now change their Google account username; users are limited to one username change every 12 months (Kris Holt/Engadget)

A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

U.S. memory chip stocks lost about $100 billion in market value this week, led by Micron’s 15% decline, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (Financial Times)

Google sets 2029 deadline for its post-quantum crypto migration, aiming to "securing the quantum era" as "the borders are perhaps closer than they seem" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with greater creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, compared to 30 seconds for Lyria 3 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)