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Iran Seizes Ships, closes Hormuz until US lifts Blockade (www.juancole.com)
2026-4-24 Iran

Dynamics and Surging Magnitude of US LNG Exports: Started 10 Years Ago in a Glut of Natural Gas that Collapsed the Price (wolfstreet.com)
2026-4-24 Gas

Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (www.ft.com)
2026-4-24 Germany AI Canada

Holding out: Japan rearms impressively, but Taiwan can't count on it (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-4-24 Japan Taiwan

FCC's Foreign-Made Router Ban Expands To Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Devices (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-4-24 Ban

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (www.ft.com)
2026-4-24 AI

Kiev-backed neo-Nazis planned bomb attack on Russian media regulator – FSB (www.rt.com)
2026-4-24 Russia

DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (simonwillison.net)
2026-4-24

Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-4-24 India

Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-24 India Welfare

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (restofworld.org)
2026-4-24 Startup

Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2026-4-24

China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-24 China AI

The AI boom has pushed the market cap of Shenzhen-listed Zhongji Innolight, a leading optical communications device maker, close to $146B, a record high (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-24 AI Shenzhen

DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (www.scmp.com)
2026-4-24

Scientists create atomically precise molecular chains to power next generation tech (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Detailed map of life-threatening Vibrio bacteria reveals new target for treatment (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Move smarter not harder: how less exercise is more (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

in Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24 Africa

McMaster-built AI speeds up drug discovery, designs new antibiotic in early tests (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24 AI

Scientists discover how the Twelve Apostles were formed - and their real age (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-4-24

Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-24 AI

DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-24

S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access (www.reuters.com)
2026-4-24 AI SpaceX

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-4-24

AI danger is no longer a myth – it's called Mythos (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-24 AI

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-4-24 Google AI

Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-4-24 Trump Tax

Taiwan's deeper vulnerability is politics at home (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-4-24 Taiwan

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