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How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost and workload reductions (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s IPO for $2 trillion? Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure The Big Technology…

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Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as planning drug research, for around $400 million (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 3, 2026

The information: Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as…

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Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI’s core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects computing to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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New York-based Blossom Health, which makes a "AI co-pilot" to augment psychiatrists’ clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20 million in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Lily Mae Lazare / Fortune: New York-based Blossom Health, which is creating an “AI co-pilot” to improve psychiatrists’ clinical decisions…

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it’s super impressive even if it’s very slow and fails at certain tasks; he can order food, book Ubers and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Live from Nvidia’s Nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over technology and the future of banking AI A…

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STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive, physically demanding tasks, in a bid to avoid shutdowns (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 13, 2026

Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive,…

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Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 11, 2026

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic…

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Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially…

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A look at Hyundai’s Atlas humanoid robot, whose assembly tasks are planned for 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: A look at Hyundai’s Atlas humanoid robot, whose assembly tasks are planned for 2028; Hyundai has…

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Several AWS developers say they are being asked to take on new roles with the help of AI tools, and engineers are now required to perform technical writing tasks (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Bad Date”, with Jason Snell The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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Trump turning into Jesus revealed the depths of his madness

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Trump and MAGA see their future as Viktor Orbán is eliminated in Hungarian elections

Google calls “back button hijacking” malicious, saying sites that interfere with a browser’s back button function could be demoted in search starting in June (Abner Li/9to5Google)

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will close its doors on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Voters in Festus, Missouri, ousted all four incumbent council members up for re-election last week, days after the council approved a $6 billion data center (Jeff Tomich/Politico)

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)

Anthropic says its $20 million donation to Public First Action cannot be “used to influence federal elections” and aims to educate the public on AI policy (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)

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How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost and workload reductions (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

Source: Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform for AI to perform biotechnology tasks such as planning drug research, for around $400 million (The Information)

Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI’s core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects computing to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

New York-based Blossom Health, which makes a "AI co-pilot" to augment psychiatrists’ clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20 million in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

it’s super impressive even if it’s very slow and fails at certain tasks; he can order food, book Ubers and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots at its former chip factories for repetitive, physically demanding tasks, in a bid to avoid shutdowns (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to the Pentagon’s 3 million employees, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

A look at Hyundai’s Atlas humanoid robot, whose assembly tasks are planned for 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)

Several AWS developers say they are being asked to take on new roles with the help of AI tools, and engineers are now required to perform technical writing tasks (Financial Times)