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Defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI and more have raised $12.3 billion in 175 deals year-to-date, up from a total of $9.95 billion in 158 deals in 2025 (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Acquired: The Walt Disney Company Discover the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies and how you can…

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A look at “humanizer” and “autotype” apps that help students evade AI detection software by slowly automatically typing essays and making AI text less robotic (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are AI glasses over?, Questions from the tech crowd, Alex Stamos on AI cybersecurity The…

Technology

After years of uncertainty, including listing delays, shares of memory chip maker Kioxia have risen 56-fold in 18 months, making it Japan’s most valuable company (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

Technology

SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq at $150, after a price of $135, making Elon Musk the world’s first billionaire; SPCX is up about 30% intraday, for a market cap of around $2.3 billion (Alex Harring/CNBC)

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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An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

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San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home and also making threats outside OpenAI headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Anthropic’s Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on their investigation into Sam Altman…

Business & Money

Family offices make gains after making opportunistic bets on oil

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Dwayne Schnell | 500px More | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with…

Technology

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “computation,” not making it public due to misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

Politics

Pete Hegseth holds briefing to complain that media is making Trump look bad in Iran

By Frank M. EverettMarch 4, 2026

When a president has a cabinet full of loyalists, many of whom worked for a cable news network that critics…

Technology

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging application based on the AT protocol, making it…

Months after attacks, Chinese work resumes on Dushanbe-Kulma highway – The Diplomat

Bangkok voters give Chadchart second term as governor by decisive margin – The Diplomat

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

ASEAN and Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs – The Diplomat

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. I want him to find my father. – The diplomat

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

‘Perfect storm’ portends much smaller U.S. auto market by 2040

Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

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

Walmart heir Lukas Walton buys minority stake in Chicago Bulls

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

Evangelical Christians humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them

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)

Filing: Strategy suspended its Bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead increasing its USD reserve to $2.55 billion and announcing a $1 billion digital credit buyback program (James Hunt/The Block)

Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: making

Defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI and more have raised $12.3 billion in 175 deals year-to-date, up from a total of $9.95 billion in 158 deals in 2025 (Financial Times)

A look at “humanizer” and “autotype” apps that help students evade AI detection software by slowly automatically typing essays and making AI text less robotic (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)

After years of uncertainty, including listing delays, shares of memory chip maker Kioxia have risen 56-fold in 18 months, making it Japan’s most valuable company (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)

SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq at $150, after a price of $135, making Elon Musk the world’s first billionaire; SPCX is up about 30% intraday, for a market cap of around $2.3 billion (Alex Harring/CNBC)

An interview with Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Executive Vice President Matt Booty on the “Return of Xbox” memo, making Xbox Series X and S a “first-class experience again,” and more (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home and also making threats outside OpenAI headquarters (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Family offices make gains after making opportunistic bets on oil

Interviews with Anthropic executives on why Claude Mythos Preview is a cybersecurity “computation,” not making it public due to misuse concerns, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Pete Hegseth holds briefing to complain that media is making Trump look bad in Iran

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app based on the AT protocol, making it the first private messaging available natively within the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)