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Emails, text messages and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robo-taxis to stop for school buses, as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

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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Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that transforms a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 11, 2026

Jesus Diaz / Fast business: Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that transforms a flat bitmap image into a…

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Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 27, 2026

Bloomberg: Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its…

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WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that display user roles, text stickers generated from any word and personalized event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: WhatsApp is rolling out new group chat features: member tags displaying user roles, text stickers generated…

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How David Sacks and AI Advisor Sriram Krishnan Overcame Opposition to Trump’s AI EO, Contacting Lawmakers and Ultimately Changing the Text of the Order (Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 15, 2025

Washington Post: How David Sacks and AI Advisor Sriram Krishnan Overcame Opposition to Trump’s AI EO, Contacting Lawmakers and Ultimately…

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Zac Room / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always…

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Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features like adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 25, 2025

The information: Sources: OpenAI develops AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features such as adding…

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Microsoft unveils Mai-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in less than a second on a single GPU, and a text model called May-1-Preview (Reed Albergotti / Semaor)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 28, 2025

Featured podcasts Tech Brew is home: Gains from Nvidia and Nano Banana Tech News titles every day. 15 minutes and…

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Q&R with the CEO of the British Library Rebecca Lawrence on the consequences of a major October 2023 Cyberatack, Stinging, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 6, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: Solo founder, out of $ 80 million, 6 months: The Base44 Bootstrapped Startup Success Story…

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Alibaba unveils the image generation of text and image generation models in the Qwen VLO image, with progressive generation technology, which shows the image creation process (Luz Ding / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 27, 2025

Featured podcasts Hard Fork: Hard fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap d’Opnai The future is already there.…

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

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

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

UPS and FedEx have started requesting certain fare refunds

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) First Quarter 2026 Results

Trump’s executive order on psychedelics and what it means for cannabis

Disturbances in Hormuz hit China’s capital of Christmas and holiday spending

Rivian factory damaged by tornado during crucial R2 EV launch

Trump and Mike Johnson desperately try to save the House before Virginia votes on a new map

Democrats turn up pressure, force another vote to end Trump’s Iran war

Trump collapses mentally as his lying superpower abandons him

Troops warned they would be prosecuted for war crimes if they followed Trump’s illegal orders

Inflation and Cost of Living Are Expected to End Trump’s Presidency

OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads in ChatGPT, setting bids between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday)

Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better position than ever as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back the decisiveness of the Jobs era, moving away from the Cook era where decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook has reshaped Apple in his own image and is stepping down as CEO on his own terms, apparently choosing the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant jumps about 57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising about $2.6 billion in its IPO, the biggest in the city so far this year (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)

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Emails, text messages and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robo-taxis to stop for school buses, as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Canva launches Magic Layers, an AI tool that transforms a flat bitmap image into a fully editable Canva project by extracting text and objects into individual layers (Jesus Diaz/Fast Company)

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, claiming K2.5 can process text, images and video simultaneously and beats its open source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that display user roles, text stickers generated from any word and personalized event reminders (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

How David Sacks and AI Advisor Sriram Krishnan Overcame Opposition to Trump’s AI EO, Contacting Lawmakers and Ultimately Changing the Text of the Order (Washington Post)

OpenAI merges ChatGPT’s voice mode directly into the default main text chat interface; users can always revert to the original separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including features like adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)

Microsoft unveils Mai-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in less than a second on a single GPU, and a text model called May-1-Preview (Reed Albergotti / Semaor)

Q&R with the CEO of the British Library Rebecca Lawrence on the consequences of a major October 2023 Cyberatack, Stinging, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain / Bloomberg)

Alibaba unveils the image generation of text and image generation models in the Qwen VLO image, with progressive generation technology, which shows the image creation process (Luz Ding / Bloomberg)