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Millions of Americans are holding onto empty homes,
fearing the tax hit a sale would bring.
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Roughly 7.2 million single-family homes are sitting empty and being kept off the market, according to the real estate investment service Flock Homes, contributing to a nationwide housing shortage. But a closer look at these “zombie homes” shows that for many owners, selling just isn’t worth it. https://nyti.ms/4w2X7l9

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Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/business/trump-foreign-disinformation-iran.ht…

Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
The war in Iran has exposed the need to mount a defense against foreign influence campaigns, officials and experts say.

The persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.

Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/technology/anthropic-defense-dept-openai-talks.…

How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.

A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/business/economy/digita…

Global Ban on Digital Duties Expires After Stalled Talks at W.T.O.
A prohibition on taxing digital downloads expired, after members of the World Trade Organization concluded their annual meeting without an agreement.

Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is "partly" true (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/30/technology/openai-…

Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial
On his third day of testimony, Elon Musk is being cross-examined by lawyers from OpenAI and Microsoft. His answers on the stand grew testy on Wednesday.

How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/india-technology-jobs-ai.html

India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.

Musk v. Altman: the judge told Musk's lawyer she did not want talk of AI's existential threat seeping into the trial, focusing instead on OpenAI's founding (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/technology/openai-trial-elon-musk-…

Elon Musk’s A.I. Claims of Danger Face Limits in OpenAI Trial
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.