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EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 24, 2026

Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: around 49% of consumers used AI in…

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Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026: AI Capacity Accelerates, Not Stagnating, U.S.-China Gap Closed, U.S. Leads in Data Centers and Investment, and More (Stanford HAI)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

Stanford HAI: Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026: AI Capacity Accelerates Instead of Stagnating, U.S.-China Gap Closed, U.S. Leads in…

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Japan approves another $4 billion in subsidies to Rapidus to fund the chipmaker’s work for Fujitsu, bringing total state investment and fees to $16.3 billion (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

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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OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, stronger safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 6, 2026

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a…

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Documents: Intel plans to invest $15 million in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel’s stake to 9%, following a $35 million investment in February (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 2, 2026

Reuters: Documents: Intel plans to invest $15 million in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel’s stake…

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Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10 billion, a significant increase from the initial commitment of $1.5 billion (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Bubble Discussion A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon,…

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A look at China’s booming robotics sector, which now has around 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investment (Chang Che/The Guardian)

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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Companies are starting to track employee AI token usage and account for costs to measure their return on AI investment and prevent potential token abuse (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Creating Prediction Markets (and Suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara Stripe co-founder…

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SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40 billion, its largest ever loan denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Slop’s Hard Fork Review The future is…

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Jensen Huang talks about Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI "this might be the last time" he invests in the company, because OpenAI is "will become public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 4, 2026

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI ‘could be the last time’ he…

PNG Prime Minister Marape strengthens economic partnerships with China – Radio Free Asia

Aung San Suu Kyi transferred to house arrest – Radio Free Asia

Olivia Enos and Mira Rapp-Hooper join RFA board of directors – Radio Free Asia

Satellite imagery reveals increased activity at North Korean nuclear complex – Radio Free Asia

Solomon Islands political crisis won’t ‘fundamentally change’ relations with Beijing – Radio Free Asia

Spirit Airlines is about to close its doors. What travelers need to know

Trump says he will raise EU auto tariffs to 25% without specifying how

Trump says government has presented ‘final’ bailout proposal for Spirit Airlines as liquidation nears

Why prediction platforms are missing

Smoothie King eyes expansion as wellness trends drive sales

Trump brags about being tested for dementia, says his supporters couldn’t pass the test

Trump’s Iran War Is Officially a Disaster for the Republican Party

Trump flatly threatens Disney in his efforts for 86 Jimmy Kimmel

Trump walks around the White House sticking coins on the doors

Democrats have a way to eliminate the Supreme Court’s damage to voting rights

Ripple Labs investor and director Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)

GameStop prepares to bid on eBay after quietly building stake; GameStop had a market cap of about $11 billion as of May 1, while eBay had about $45 billion (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

British court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392 million for patents needed to access phone network; Samsung faces similar lawsuits from ZTE in China, Germany and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, while exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit are rolling out agent-friendly interfaces (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

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EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026: AI Capacity Accelerates, Not Stagnating, U.S.-China Gap Closed, U.S. Leads in Data Centers and Investment, and More (Stanford HAI)

Japan approves another $4 billion in subsidies to Rapidus to fund the chipmaker’s work for Fujitsu, bringing total state investment and fees to $16.3 billion (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, stronger safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Documents: Intel plans to invest $15 million in SambaNova, a startup chaired by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, increasing Intel’s stake to 9%, following a $35 million investment in February (Reuters)

Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10 billion, a significant increase from the initial commitment of $1.5 billion (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

A look at China’s booming robotics sector, which now has around 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investment (Chang Che/The Guardian)

Companies are starting to track employee AI token usage and account for costs to measure their return on AI investment and prevent potential token abuse (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40 billion, its largest ever loan denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

Jensen Huang talks about Nvidia’s recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI "this might be the last time" he invests in the company, because OpenAI is "will become public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)