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The Chatbot Moment: Mapping the Emerging 2026 U.S. Chatbot Legislative Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/the-chatbot-moment-mapping-the-emerging-2026-u-s-chatbot-legislative-landscape/
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PitchBook: VC dealmaking in the media sector fell 69% YoY to $165M across 47 deals in the first two months of 2026, as investors take an "AI-first" approach (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

AI Still Dominates as Media VC Deals Fell 69% to $165 Million in First 2 Months of 2026
Lead the Future, Justin and Ben Smith’s Semafor and former Paramount co-CEO Brian Robbins’ Big Shot Pictures were among the biggest VC investments in January and February

Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stratechery, TSMC, Stripe, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/ben-thompson-from-stratechery-on…

Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
Ben Thompson, the internet’s premier tech analyst, joins John for a wide-ranging conversation on the mechanics of the internet economy.

One advantage of being an artistic weirdo who makes completely commercially non-viable music is that I have a •lot• of practice forging that sense of purpose and meaning for myself when the world is aggressively not handing it to me.
Software development has been coasting on a wave of profitability / employability for several decades, and as a discipline perhaps has an underdeveloped sense of intrinsic purpose. Now is a good time to for us to redevelop that as a community, regardless of future job market prospects.

I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.

Audio Alignment Implementation
This is not a suggestion of some feature. I plan to implement a functionality that is already on the Road Map. But I would like to discuss, document and, if possible, get support from volunteers. I am not really familiar with MLT and Shotcut terminologies. Feel free to correct things (this post is a wiki). The “MLT only” part has been accomplished. All we need now is to integrate it in Shotcut. I (André) plan to wait until the next release because people are busy with beta tests, right n…

The Jackson Hole region has long been a refuge for the rich,
but an explosion of new affluence has allowed a growing cadre of extraordinarily wealthy people to ⛔️dominate both the local economy and Wyoming state politics.
Teton County is not merely the richest county in the country, per capita -- by far;
⭐️it is a window into America’s near future, as the country enters a new #gilded

America’s Billionaires Continue to Flock to Wyoming
Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/broadcom-agrees-to-expanded…

Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic
Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google artificial intelligence chips, and announced an expanded deal with Anthropic.

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow #Greenland

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow
A growing network of meltwater lakes at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating the flow of major glaciers, potentially increasing the pace of global sea-level rise. Warmer air and sea temperatures have led to the loss of around 264 gigatons of ice every year in Greenland since 2002, causing sea levels to rise by 0.8 millimeters annually. But a new study by the University of Leeds examining glacier behavior across the entire ice sheet has highlighted a lesser-known feature that is a…

Just read an article by @… and stumbles across this question:
> "...if Clawdbot can create a virtual remote for my LG television (something I did) or give me a personalized report with voice every morning (another cron job I set up) that work exactly the way I want, why should I even bother going to the App Store to look for pre-built solut…

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like
For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sonos speaker, my Philips Hue lights, as well as my Gmail. It runs on...

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world
to show their solidarity with anti-government demonstrators in Iran
whose continued protests have been met with brutal and deadly repression.
On Saturday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah,
addressed a crowd of 200,000 people in Munich,
telling them he was ready to lead the country to a “secular democratic future”.
Pahlavi urged Iranians at home and abroad to continu…