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Sources detail frustration within Meta’s applied AI team, formed in March to support superintelligence labs, over menial projects, ‘overwhelming’ work, and more (Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 12, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple’s new Siri A show about the inside conversations of the…

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India-based Innefu Labs, which develops AI-based software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Panthera (The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 5, 2026

Economic times: India-based Innefu Labs, which develops AI-based software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, has raised a $30…

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Chinese AI startups raised $16.2 billion in Q1 2026, up 185% year-on-year, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai and MiniMax (Karen Tian/South China Morning Post)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Substack CEO talks AI slop, free speech and taking over YouTube A show about the inside conversations…

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Developers say Chinese AI labs are leading their U.S. rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast libraries of short-form videos from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 17, 2026

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs are leading their U.S. rivals in video generation, while ByteDance…

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Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform debuted in 2023, often denounce other AI as shoddy as competition from frontier AI labs grows (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform…

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Impressions of the Chinese AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs, and the similarities and differences in LLM work in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs: How voice becomes the interface for everything Sequoia Capital partners host conversations…

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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)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 2, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

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Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Jensen on the ropes, Sam Altman conflicts, Allbirds GPU pivot The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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OpenAI supports an Illinois bill protecting AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms,” such as more than 100 deaths or more than $1 billion in damages, if safety reports were released (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: OpenClaw for standards is here A show about the inside conversations of the tech industry, hosted by…

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Indonesia says tech companies have deleted 4.7 million children’s accounts since government ban – The Diplomat

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Medicare will soon cover obesity medications, but many seniors may not know it

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Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

How Kohl’s lost its way and is trying to become relevant again

House Democrats to force vote to cut Trump’s arms fund

Supreme Court condemns Republicans in midterms with ruling on mail-in voting

Even Fox News Can’t Hide Trump’s Great Failing for Fairness in America

Donald Trump now spends his days counting trees in the park

Failure of Trump’s big fair rally in US state really upsets him

Five Chinese technology and advanced manufacturing companies launched their listings in Hong Kong today to raise up to $5.6 billion, led by Apple supplier Luxshare’s $3.15 billion offering (Reuters)

Australia’s ACCC is suing Amazon for allegedly introducing ads on Prime Video under unfair contractual terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them (Peter Vercoe/Bloomberg)

Google says the Gemini app now offers custom Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro and Ultra users, for free to eligible US users (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

As a new law prohibits the DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms are abandoning companies like Alibaba and Tencent (Bloomberg).

Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200 million led by Summit Partners (Laura Kreutzer/Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: Labs

Sources detail frustration within Meta’s applied AI team, formed in March to support superintelligence labs, over menial projects, ‘overwhelming’ work, and more (Wired)

India-based Innefu Labs, which develops AI-based software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Panthera (The Economic Times)

Chinese AI startups raised $16.2 billion in Q1 2026, up 185% year-on-year, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai and MiniMax (Karen Tian/South China Morning Post)

Developers say Chinese AI labs are leading their U.S. rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast libraries of short-form videos from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Executives at Palantir, whose stock has risen about 16 times since its AI platform debuted in 2023, often denounce other AI as shoddy as competition from frontier AI labs grows (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Impressions of the Chinese AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs, and the similarities and differences in LLM work in China and the West (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

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)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Mistral, which once aimed at the best open models, now aims to be an alternative to Chinese and American labs, and says it is on track to generate $80 million in monthly revenue by December (Iain Martin/Forbes)

OpenAI supports an Illinois bill protecting AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms,” such as more than 100 deaths or more than $1 billion in damages, if safety reports were released (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)