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Zoom Steps Up Its Game With AI and
Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Zoom taps AI to empower customers in safe hybrid work environment. Zoom – the communications platform used by nearly 13 million people each month – is working to further elevate its collaboration services with AI technology. Announcements include…
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AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s systems last November.Sybil uses a mix of different AI models—as well as a few proprietary technical tricks—to scan computer systems for issues that…
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to not only violate X’s own policies, which prohibit sharing illegal content such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but may…
Steve Jobs’ Early Apple Items Are Going Up for Auction—Along With His Bow Ties
Coincidentally, that original partnership agreement between Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, signed on April 1, 1976, is also up for bid this month at Christie’s. (Wayne got cold feet shortly after the signing and sold his 10 percent stake to the Steves for $800.) It's among the “works of art,…
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In the same way that the Romans gradually amassed an empire of land spanning three continents and one-ninth of the Earth’s circumference, the CEO and his cohort are now dotting the…
AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI are racing to develop “operating systems” for AI-powered devices—and 2026 is likely the year these efforts will start to take off. The devices are largely built around a future where AI agents can take actions on a user’s behalf, without requiring them…
Google Gemini Is Taking Control of Humanoid Robots on Auto Factory Floors
For several decades, Boston Dynamics has pioneered the development of advanced robots, including humanoids and four-legged systems tested by the military as a way to carry supplies over rough terrain. The company was sold to Google in 2013 and was bought by SoftBank in 2017. In 2021, Hyundai acquired a…
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
I’m fully convinced a generative AI bubble will pop in the not-so-distant future. Not everything will be wiped out, but things will shift. My prediction? San Francisco’s techno-idealist vision of an economy overhauled by an AI workforce will fade away, but one queer byproduct of the great AI surge will…
The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay in alternatives—starts to build momentum. The more Washington uses the dollar as a weapon, the more the world builds ways to circumvent it.America’s share of global trade has fallen from…
So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen
On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in Hangzhou, China. As I chatted with engineers, their words were swiftly translated from Mandarin to English, and then transcribed onto a tiny translucent screen just above my right eye using…
In Cryptoland, Memecoin Fever Gives Way to a Stablecoin Boom
When US president Donald Trump launched his own meme cryptocurrency on January 17, days before his return to the White House, I was halfway up a Swiss alp, attending a crypto conference in the town of St. Moritz.Memecoins, which typically have no purpose beyond financial speculation, were having a moment.…
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