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Technology

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, allowing users to open links side-by-side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Max Mullen of Instacart Conversations with people I admire about things that really interest…

Technology

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI "shopping fashion" feature and plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI’s “shopping mode” feature and plans to release a version…

Technology

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Go touch some weed (but don’t tweet about it) A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

Politics

Mike Johnson gives in and agrees to pass Democratic bill to open DHS without funding for ICE

By Frank M. EverettApril 1, 2026

House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to play tough after the Senate passed a bill to defund DHS without any funding…

Technology

Open models will lose significantly if they continue to pursue AI models with closed boundaries; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Pod BG2: ChatGPT – The era of super assistants Open source podcast about all things technology, markets, investing,…

Technology

Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

Technology

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in average contribution quality, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Closes to $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question – with Aaron Levie The…

Technology

Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70…

Technology

Sam Altman says OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Sequoia CEO Coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a business and never been harder…

Technology

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent who suggests code changes to open source repositories wrote a hit article about him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion The Big Technology Podcast…

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

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

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

PNG-Australia defense treaty creates jobs, poses risks amid growing Chinese influence – Radio Free Asia

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Netflix (NFLX) Q1 2026 Results

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

Trump’s Rich Treasury Secretary Has No Idea Gas Prices Are a Crisis

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Some shareholders question whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have proposed Bret Taylor as successor (Wall Street Journal)

About 40% of U.S. data centers planned for 2026 face delays, with major sites from Microsoft, OpenAI and others likely more than three months behind schedule (Financial Times)

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots toward tasks they haven’t been trained for, a "early sign" generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a less than 20% stake to Architect Capital at a valuation of more than $3 billion, down from a previously announced stake of around 60% at a valuation of around $5.5 billion (Financial Times)

Browsing: Open

Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, allowing users to open links side-by-side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI "shopping fashion" feature and plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

Mike Johnson gives in and agrees to pass Democratic bill to open DHS without funding for ICE

Open models will lose significantly if they continue to pursue AI models with closed boundaries; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in average contribution quality, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a family of open models of 3.35 billion parameters supporting over 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sam Altman says OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent who suggests code changes to open source repositories wrote a hit article about him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)