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Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Swathi Moorthy / Economic times: Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and…

Technology

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

Technology

Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple Music improvements, Smart List for reminders, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 16, 2026

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple…

Technology

Smart ring maker Oura plans initial investor tender offering at a 25% discount to its $11 billion Series E valuation, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraising, AI Ad Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin The Big Technology…

Technology

laptops with new Intel, Qualcomm and AMD chips, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses and more (The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 3, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

Technology

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: The SMART USA Institute, funded by the US CHIPS Act and focused on digital…

Technology

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 15, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Evan Spiegel is building the future of computing Grit explores what it takes to create, build…

Politics

The Democrats did something really smart during the shutdown and the Republicans totally fell for it

By Frank M. EverettNovember 7, 2025

If you watched or listened to mainstream media during the government shutdown, you heard Democrats being asked why they wouldn’t…

Technology

A significant leap in the range of google smart watches with a beautiful dome -shaped screen, but Gemini is not reliable and the GPS cards are always bancals (Victoria Song/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 8, 2025

Featured podcasts Super discussion: David against Goliath, but do it with venture capital A podcast mainly on technology. Presented every…

Technology

Sources: Apple has paused the development of a lighter pro vision to focus on smart glasses, a model of non-emission for a 2027 version and a model with a display later (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 1, 2025

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:: Sources: Apple has paused the development of a lighter pro vision to focus on smart glasses,…

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

New York pied-à-terre tax sparks legal fight over values

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

Spirit Airlines’ money ‘won’t last very long’

Nike cuts 1,400 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

Trump administration decides to reclassify cannabis

Trump falls asleep during Oval Office event as his decline deepens

Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump the stupidest president in history

Republicans attempt to overturn election after Virginia backfires Trump’s Gerrymander

RFK Jr. looked completely crazy during Senate hearing

Investigation opened into Kash Patel’s alleged drinking

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)

Meta announces deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon’s Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid Nvidia chip shortage (Ina Fried/Axios)

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until age 16; government says it will present bill to parliament by end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Browsing: smart

Sources say Ola’s AI venture Krutrim’s smart assistant, Kruti, is not available to users and development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, is stalled (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

Apple releases iOS 26.4 beta 1 to developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, Apple Music improvements, Smart List for reminders, and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Smart ring maker Oura plans initial investor tender offering at a 25% discount to its $11 billion Series E valuation, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

laptops with new Intel, Qualcomm and AMD chips, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses and more (The Verge)

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG revealed an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)

The Democrats did something really smart during the shutdown and the Republicans totally fell for it

A significant leap in the range of google smart watches with a beautiful dome -shaped screen, but Gemini is not reliable and the GPS cards are always bancals (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Sources: Apple has paused the development of a lighter pro vision to focus on smart glasses, a model of non-emission for a 2027 version and a model with a display later (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)