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European venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2026 increased almost 30% year-on-year to $17.6 billion, AI claimed more than 50% of all European funding for the quarter and deal volume fell 40% year-on-year (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The Pentagon’s AI Plan + Behind the Human Struggle — With Undersecretary of War Emil…

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Median base salary offers for U.S. software engineers at venture-backed startups have increased 25% to $200,000 since 2022; total compensation increased only 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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Apple’s revenue from GenAI applications increased from about $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only about 5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Are startup HR teams doing well? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du,…

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SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 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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A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using the latest lab tools, thinking about atrophy, and more, plus increased productivity (Siddhant Khare)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Getting Paid to Rock Code: Inside the New Work of the AI Age | Lazar Jovanovic…

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Increased capital spending expected this year will virtually wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta, potentially forcing reductions in share buybacks or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 8, 2026

Martin peers / The information: Increased capital spending expected this year will virtually wipe out free cash flow for Amazon,…

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by the end of 2025, Claude Code’s ARR had increased by at least another $100 million from the $1 billion reported in November, representing 12% of Anthropic’s total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell explains Claude’s new constitution The future is already…

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Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 15, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: AppNumbers: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6%…

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Apple’s annual spending at TSMC increased 12-fold from $2 billion in 2014 to $24 billion in 2025, and once accounted for 25% of TSMC’s revenue (SemiAnalysis)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: What OpenAI and Google engineers learned from deploying more than 50 AI products into production Interviews…

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A look at global AI adoption in 2025; consumption in the countries of the North has increased almost twice as fast as in the South; UAE leads with 64% of working age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: The race for AI glasses is heating up. A show about the inside conversations of the tech…

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

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OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more. (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Meta increases the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

British paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for the Apple Vision Pro Adventure series when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Voice actors around the world are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of the World)

Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

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European venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2026 increased almost 30% year-on-year to $17.6 billion, AI claimed more than 50% of all European funding for the quarter and deal volume fell 40% year-on-year (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Median base salary offers for U.S. software engineers at venture-backed startups have increased 25% to $200,000 since 2022; total compensation increased only 18% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Apple’s revenue from GenAI applications increased from about $35 million in January 2025 to a high of $101 million in August 2025, with 75% coming from ChatGPT and only about 5% from Grok (Wall Street Journal)

SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using the latest lab tools, thinking about atrophy, and more, plus increased productivity (Siddhant Khare)

Increased capital spending expected this year will virtually wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta, potentially forcing reductions in share buybacks or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)

by the end of 2025, Claude Code’s ARR had increased by at least another $100 million from the $1 billion reported in November, representing 12% of Anthropic’s total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Appfigures: Global consumer spending on mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play increased 21.6% year-over-year to $155.8 billion in 2025, but app downloads fell 2.7% to $106.9 billion (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple’s annual spending at TSMC increased 12-fold from $2 billion in 2014 to $24 billion in 2025, and once accounted for 25% of TSMC’s revenue (SemiAnalysis)

A look at global AI adoption in 2025; consumption in the countries of the North has increased almost twice as fast as in the South; UAE leads with 64% of working age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)