Wall Street has a familiar pattern when it comes to AI: first it chases the obvious bottleneck, then it hunts for the next one that quietly determines whether the whole system can scale. In the early days of the AI…
In the Palisades fire arson case, prosecutors are not just relying on the usual ingredients of a wildfire prosecution—cellphone location pings, security-camera angles, and witness accounts. They are also leaning on something far more modern and, in many ways, far…
In the rush to measure artificial intelligence by what it can say, a quieter question is starting to matter more: what can it do—reliably, safely, and at scale—inside the places where work actually happens? A growing body of reporting and…
The Bank for International Settlements has issued a warning that will feel familiar to anyone who has watched previous technology cycles run hot and then cool sharply: when expectations outrun measurable results, funding can tighten faster than companies can adjust.…
Google has reportedly moved to limit how much Meta can use its Gemini models, a sign that the AI arms race is increasingly constrained not by software ambition but by the physical realities of running large-scale machine learning. As demand…
Shenzhen has long been a city that treats new technology like infrastructure: if it works, it gets scaled; if it doesn’t, it gets replaced. That mindset is now colliding with one of the most visible parts of China’s urban economy—the…
Elon Musk’s “orbital data center” pitch has moved from speculative futurism to a recurring talking point in boardrooms, policy circles, and the satellite industry—yet the closer people look, the more the questions multiply. SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son is only the…
Margaret Atwood’s latest comments on artificial intelligence didn’t arrive as a sweeping condemnation or a futuristic prophecy. They came, instead, from a very ordinary place: a single attempt to use a chatbot for something specific, followed by the kind of…
Paul Meade’s reported move from Apple to OpenAI is the kind of personnel shift that can look small on paper but feel enormous in practice—especially when it involves a leader tied to a flagship, highly visible product category. According to…
When Connor Christou received his cancer diagnosis, the first thing he did wasn’t to search for a single “magic” treatment or a one-time second opinion. It was to start building a system—one that could hold the messy reality of his…
Apple’s latest round of price increases has landed with a familiar thud: customers see higher tags on everyday premium devices, and executives point to forces that feel both distant and unavoidable. Tim Cook, speaking in the context of Apple’s recent…
Across Asia, a new wave of AI startups is quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) testing a bet that the next phase of model adoption won’t be decided solely by who invents the best architecture—but by who can ship it,…