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Bitcoin fell to ~$78,000, down around 7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the last week, and down around 37% since its ATH in October 2025; Ethereum fell about 18% last week (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The Anthropogenic Rocket, AI Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind…

Technology

The US government finalized the forfeiture of more than $400 million linked to crypto mixer Helix last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon sentenced to three years in prison in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Gokul Rajaram – Lessons learned from investing in 700 companies The leading destination for…

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Slice, which uses AI agents to code tax policies and legal rules in more than 60 countries, raised a $25 million Series A led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $32 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

Mary Ann Azevedo / This week in Fintech: Slice, which uses AI agents to code tax policies and legal rules…

Technology

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "LEFT" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week in which he claimed xAI circumvented regulations (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 22, 2026

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he “left” the company days after appearing on a podcast last…

Technology

Cursor’s recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to create a web browser, writing more than a million lines of code in 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The PM’s Non-Technical Guide to Building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) Interviews with world-class product…

Technology

Roblox’s AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using technology from a company called Persona, faces criticism for age misidentification (David Gilbert/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 13, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Can we build a better social network? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

Politics

Democrats and Republicans will act next week to stop Trump from continuing his actions in Venezuela

By Frank M. EverettJanuary 4, 2026

To say that most of Congress is very upset about Trump invading another country and impeaching its leader without congressional…

Technology

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to create open source AI agent standards this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 9, 2025

Aaron Holmes / The information: Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation…

Technology

OpenAI Estimates About 0.07% of ChatGPT Users Active in a Week Experience “Serious Mental Health Symptoms” Like Mania, and Details Its Security Improvements (OpenAI)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 27, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Yossi Mathias, Head of Research at Google: AI for Cancer Research, Quantum Advances and the…

Technology

Apple Glasses can fully run VisionOS when paired with a Mac and a lighter UI with an iPhone; Apple could unveil the iPad, MacBook Pro and Vision Pro M5 this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 12, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Inside Google’s AI Turnaround: The Rise of AI Mode, the Strategy Behind AI Previews, and Their…

Russia and the Sino-American summit – The Diplomat

Why hasn’t China criticized Australia’s national defense strategy? – The diplomat

Japan’s Middle Power Arming Strategy in the Indo-Pacific – The Diplomat

The man who created China’s modern navy – The Diplomat

Ending Chinese visa-free travel could cripple tourism in the Northern Marianas – Radio Free Asia

Allegiant CEO defends low-cost airline plan as Sun Country deal closes

Beer demand falls due to rising gas prices, data shows

Kool-Aid Kraft Heinz to launch electrolytes without artificial colors

Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

Trump FDA Commissioner Marty Makary absent

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Trump barely arrives in China with a thud

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% year-over-year to ~$67 billion and net profit up 19% year-over-year to ~$1.6 billion, matching estimate as it boosts production of AI servers, its largest source of revenue (Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI’s financial sector push, but financiers rarely use it for their work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Cisco reports third-quarter revenue up 12% year-over-year to $15.84 billion, compared to an estimated $15.56 billion, forecasts fourth-quarter revenue above estimates and cuts nearly 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps more than 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

Browsing: week

Bitcoin fell to ~$78,000, down around 7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the last week, and down around 37% since its ATH in October 2025; Ethereum fell about 18% last week (Bloomberg)

The US government finalized the forfeiture of more than $400 million linked to crypto mixer Helix last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon sentenced to three years in prison in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

Slice, which uses AI agents to code tax policies and legal rules in more than 60 countries, raised a $25 million Series A led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $32 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "LEFT" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week in which he claimed xAI circumvented regulations (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

Cursor’s recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to create a web browser, writing more than a million lines of code in 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Roblox’s AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using technology from a company called Persona, faces criticism for age misidentification (David Gilbert/Wired)

Democrats and Republicans will act next week to stop Trump from continuing his actions in Venezuela

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and more are expected to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to create open source AI agent standards this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

OpenAI Estimates About 0.07% of ChatGPT Users Active in a Week Experience “Serious Mental Health Symptoms” Like Mania, and Details Its Security Improvements (OpenAI)

Apple Glasses can fully run VisionOS when paired with a Mac and a lighter UI with an iPhone; Apple could unveil the iPad, MacBook Pro and Vision Pro M5 this week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)