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Short seller Grizzly is shorting London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes claims (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 6, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Device Wars heats up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix acquires Warner Brothers The Big Technology Podcast…

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OpenAI tests training LLMs to produce "confession"or self-report how they performed a task and acknowledge poor behavior, such as appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Will Douglas Sky / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions,” or self-report how they performed…

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CANI files ballot measure on BOD to allow oversight board to review and overturn science and technology nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Tim Cook’s Senior Year?, The Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push The Big Technology…

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An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel Prize winner John Jumper on creative “off-label” uses of AlphaFold, combining the power of AlphaFold with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 30, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: NVIDIA panic mode?, OpenAI funding hole, Ilya mystery revenue plan The Big Technology Podcast takes…

Business & Money

Access to Mifepristone Abortion Pill Stable Under Trump, FDA Review Looms

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Mifepristone and misoprostol pills are pictured Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in Skokie, Illinois.Erin Hooley | Chicago Tribune | Tribune News…

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Apple updates app review guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain user permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Inside the AI Bubble: Debt, Depreciation and Losses – With Gil Luria The Big Technology…

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Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus has raised A$500 million, or ~$325 million, tripling its valuation to A$6 billion in two months, after raising A$330 million in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 14, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: The company at the heart of the AI bubble A show from The Verge…

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AI browsers can bypass certain paywalls; The OpenAI Atlas appears to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, instead providing summaries or alternative reports (Columbia Journalism Review)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Meatbags,” with Brian Mueller The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long…

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iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: Amazing performance, hardware still unbeatable and iPadOS feels more like a Mac, but still too expensive for a secondary computer (David Pierce/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 21, 2025

David Pierce / The edge: iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeatable and iPadOS feels more like…

Technology

A survey finds a bias of caste crawling in Chatgpt and Sora; A researcher also finds a caste bias in Sarvam Ai, who presents himself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher / MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 4, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Sora 2 & Ai’s Slow Era, Death of the Creator Economy ?, Smartglasses of Apple…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Commercial Real Estate Sees Record Lending Competition in April

Increased World Cup-related travel has yet to materialize for U.S. businesses

Pandemic car shortages still drive up new and used car prices

GM eyes new type of battery to expand data center and energy storage business

LIV Golf CEO says to take PIF ‘at its word’ as funding cliff approaches

Democrats have all the information they need to end Trump and Vance with a real investigation into Epstein

Trump says he likes high inflation in new disaster for Republicans

Republicans go off the rails and say they don’t need proof to say the election is rigged

Top House Democrat demands answers about Trump’s health after he falls asleep during NBA Finals

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Sources: OpenAI plans to significantly lower the price of its tokens in anticipation of similar reductions expected by the company at Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Amazon secures $17.5 billion loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling C$14 billion in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars (Bloomberg)

Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruptions caused by advanced AI systems (Anthropic)

Survey: 53% of Americans fear that AI could put a member of their household out of work; Democrats more likely than Republicans to worry about AI’s impact on jobs (Reuters)

Aryon Security, whose platform allows companies to define a security strategy, which it translates into actionable policies that cannot be ignored, raised a $29 million Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Browsing: Review

Short seller Grizzly is shorting London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes claims (Bloomberg)

OpenAI tests training LLMs to produce "confession"or self-report how they performed a task and acknowledge poor behavior, such as appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

CANI files ballot measure on BOD to allow oversight board to review and overturn science and technology nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel Prize winner John Jumper on creative “off-label” uses of AlphaFold, combining the power of AlphaFold with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Access to Mifepristone Abortion Pill Stable Under Trump, FDA Review Looms

Apple updates app review guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain user permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus has raised A$500 million, or ~$325 million, tripling its valuation to A$6 billion in two months, after raising A$330 million in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)

AI browsers can bypass certain paywalls; The OpenAI Atlas appears to avoid content from companies suing OpenAI, instead providing summaries or alternative reports (Columbia Journalism Review)

iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: Amazing performance, hardware still unbeatable and iPadOS feels more like a Mac, but still too expensive for a secondary computer (David Pierce/The Verge)

A survey finds a bias of caste crawling in Chatgpt and Sora; A researcher also finds a caste bias in Sarvam Ai, who presents himself as a sovereign AI for India (Nilesh Christopher / MIT Technology Review)