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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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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 10, 2026

Fransiska Nangoy / Reuters: Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to…

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Q&A with Sam Rodriques, CEO of Edison Scientific, about Kosmos, Edison’s AI tool for scientific research, why AI likely won’t cure diseases anytime soon, and more (New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 27, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Alex and Ranjan’s Outlook for 2026: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple’s Big Year, AI…

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Sources: Resolve AI, which develops an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation levels, including $1 billion (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 20, 2025

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A…

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Sources: US FTC investigating Instacart’s AI pricing tool, after study showed different prices for same items in same stores; CART falls more than 8% after hours (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 18, 2025

Jody Godoy / Reuters: Sources: US FTC investigating Instacart’s AI pricing tool, after study showed different prices for same items…

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USPTO issues new guidance clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 27, 2025

Blake Brittain / Reuters: The USPTO issues new guidance clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human…

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Truffle Security, whose open source tool detects, verifies and remediates leaked secrets such as API keys, raised a $25 million Series A round led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 6, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Technology is becoming more and more political, isn’t it? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Oreo maker Mondelez spent more than $40 million on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to reduce marketing content production costs by 30% to 50% (Jessica DiNapoli/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 25, 2025

Jessica DiNapoli / Reuters: Oreo maker Mondelez spent more than $40 million on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and…

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Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation of $400 million, bringing the total raised to $74 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 10, 2025

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation…

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Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for security testing, and says it has observed several cases of models attempting to blow the whistle (anthropogenic)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 7, 2025

Anthropic: Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for security testing, and says it has observed several instances…

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

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Browsing: tool

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)

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

Q&A with Sam Rodriques, CEO of Edison Scientific, about Kosmos, Edison’s AI tool for scientific research, why AI likely won’t cure diseases anytime soon, and more (New York Times)

Sources: Resolve AI, which develops an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation levels, including $1 billion (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: US FTC investigating Instacart’s AI pricing tool, after study showed different prices for same items in same stores; CART falls more than 8% after hours (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

USPTO issues new guidance clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Truffle Security, whose open source tool detects, verifies and remediates leaked secrets such as API keys, raised a $25 million Series A round led by Intel Capital and a16z (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Oreo maker Mondelez spent more than $40 million on an AI tool, developed with Publicis and Accenture, to reduce marketing content production costs by 30% to 50% (Jessica DiNapoli/Reuters)

Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation creation tool for businesses, raised $30 million at a valuation of $400 million, bringing the total raised to $74 million (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Anthropic releases Petri, an open-source tool using AI agents for security testing, and says it has observed several cases of models attempting to blow the whistle (anthropogenic)