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digital advertising revenue reached $294.6 billion in 2025, up 13.9% year-on-year; Social media advertising reached $117.7 billion, up 32.6%, and digital video reached $78 billion, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

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…

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Sources: Data labeling startup Handshake’s annualized gross revenue reached about $1 billion, up from $550 million in January; Mercor achieved an annualized gross revenue run rate of more than $1 billion this year (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

The information: Sources: Data labeling startup Handshake’s annualized gross revenue reached about $1 billion, up from $550 million in January;…

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Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs reached $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by demand for agentic AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two…

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AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 10, 2026

Anna Tong / Forbes: AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a…

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Official data shows that Indian smartphone exports reached $11 billion in the first half of fiscal 2026, up 55% year-on-year; analysts warn Iran war could trigger 22-25% decline in coming weeks (Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 31, 2026

Quratulain Rehbar / Nikkei Asia: Official data shows that Indian smartphone exports reached $11 billion in the first half of…

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online luxury DTC brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $10 billion, up from $4.5 billion in July; its annualized revenue rate reached around $2 billion (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI revenues explode, Dario’s memo, McDonald’s CEO’s baby burger The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion, up from $3.3 billion in 2025; its annualized revenue reached ~$1 billion, a 3-fold increase from mid-2025 (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

The information: Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion,…

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Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts profited a total of $1 million betting on the United States to strike Iran by February 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Émilie Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts…

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Claude reached second place on Apple’s US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between No. 20 and No. 50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 27, 2026

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

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Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude’s models bought, sold and traded personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees (Anthropic)

Europe’s dependence on American companies in the technology and financial sectors is largely its fault, after excessive regulation made European companies too weak to compete (The Economist)

The series, founded by two Yale seniors to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, has raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

JPMorgan and other banks have struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased from Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin (Wall Street Journal)

French forecast office refers suspicion of tampering with weather sensors at Paris airport to police after detecting unusual values alongside Polymarket betting (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)

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digital advertising revenue reached $294.6 billion in 2025, up 13.9% year-on-year; Social media advertising reached $117.7 billion, up 32.6%, and digital video reached $78 billion, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

Sources: Data labeling startup Handshake’s annualized gross revenue reached about $1 billion, up from $550 million in January; Mercor achieved an annualized gross revenue run rate of more than $1 billion this year (The Information)

Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs reached $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by demand for agentic AI (Wall Street Journal)

AfterQuery, which sells coding and financial training data to AI labs, says it has raised a $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation and has reached an annual run rate of more than $100 million (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Official data shows that Indian smartphone exports reached $11 billion in the first half of fiscal 2026, up 55% year-on-year; analysts warn Iran war could trigger 22-25% decline in coming weeks (Quratulain Rehbar/Nikkei Asia)

online luxury DTC brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $10 billion, up from $4.5 billion in July; its annualized revenue rate reached around $2 billion (The Information)

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise around $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of $7.5 billion, up from $3.3 billion in 2025; its annualized revenue reached ~$1 billion, a 3-fold increase from mid-2025 (The Information)

Polymarket’s trading in contracts related to strikes against Iran reached $529 million, and six new accounts profited a total of $1 million betting on the United States to strike Iran by February 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Claude reached second place on Apple’s US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between No. 20 and No. 50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)