After years of “please, just give the frame rate a snack” discourse, The Pokémon Company and Game Freak have finally said the quiet part out loud: the next mainline Pokémon adventure will be built for newer hardware first, and nostalgia can ride in the back seat. During the February 27, 2026 Pokémon Presents livestream (Pokémon…
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank Test Agentic AI for Trade Surveillance: From “Rules + Alerts” to Reasoning Systems (and New Risks)
Banks have a long history of buying shiny new technology, bolting it onto a legacy workflow, and then acting surprised when the shiny part doesn’t magically fix the legacy part. Trade surveillance—monitoring orders, executions, and related behaviors for market abuse—has been one of the most stubborn examples. It’s mission critical, massively data-heavy, and famously prone…
PayPal’s Historic BigQuery Migration: The Unsexy Data Move Powering Its Next GenAI Wave
Some technology stories begin with a shiny demo and end with a funding round. This one begins with the kind of sentence that makes executives reach for coffee and engineers reach for the exit: “We need to migrate hundreds of petabytes of production analytics data.” On February 26, 2026, PayPal published a detailed account of…
PayPal’s historic BigQuery migration: why moving 300+ petabytes is really an AI strategy (not just a database project)
When a company says it migrated “more than 300 petabytes” of analytics data with “zero downtime,” my default reaction is to check whether my coffee has been replaced with an energy drink. Then I read the details, and the story gets even more interesting: PayPal’s leadership is explicitly framing an enormous data-warehouse consolidation as the…
Finding Value with AI in an Industry 5.0 Transformation: From ‘Automation for Savings’ to Human-Centric Growth
On February 26, 2026, MIT Technology Review published an item titled “Finding value with AI and Industry 5.0 transformation”. The piece sits in the increasingly crowded intersection of industrial transformation, AI adoption, and that somewhat mischievous phrase executives love: “value realization.” Unfortunately for reporters (and fortunately for paywalls), the full Technology Review page is not…
Salesforce’s “SaaSpocalypse” Moment: Why Marc Benioff Thinks AI Agents Won’t Kill SaaS (and What Actually Might)
On February 25, 2026, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff did what every seasoned enterprise-software leader eventually learns to do: stare into the camera, acknowledge the panic, and then politely tell the market it’s being dramatic. The panic has a nickname now—“SaaSpocalypse”—a catchy way of describing investor fear that AI agents will make classic software-as-a-service business models…
The Future Is Modular: What 10+ Years of Running Kubernetes Taught Platform Teams (and Why Bundles Are a Trap)
Platform engineering has a funny habit: it starts as a noble effort to “make developers faster,” and within a year it’s also responsible for compliance, cost controls, uptime, multi-cloud portability, and answering the eternal question: “Why is this cluster bill shaped like a hockey stick?” That’s why the latest argument from Giant Swarm — that…
Galaxy S26 vs S26 Plus vs S26 Ultra: Specs, Prices, and the Real Differences That Matter (2026)
Samsung’s 2026 flagship trio has arrived, and yes: on a spec sheet, the differences look as dramatic (and as expensive) as a three-monitor gamer setup in a coffee shop. The Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26 Plus, and Galaxy S26 Ultra share a common foundation—Android 16, Samsung’s latest Galaxy AI features, and Qualcomm’s newest “for Galaxy” silicon—yet…
When a Meme Page Might Be a Government Megaphone: WIRED Says a White House Staffer Appears Linked to the “Johnny MAGA” X Account
In 2026, the fastest way to launder an official talking point into “the internet is saying…” is not a press conference. It’s an anonymous meme account with a good GIF folder and a suspiciously fast trigger finger. That’s the uncomfortable premise of a new report from WIRED, which argues that a major pro-Trump X (formerly…
India’s AI Boom Is a User Land-Grab: Why Firms Are Sacrificing Near-Term Revenue (and What Happens Next)
India has become the world’s most enthusiastic downloader of generative AI apps—and the world’s most stubborn monetization puzzle. If you’re an AI company, the country looks like a dream: hundreds of millions of smartphone users, a young population, and a national ambition to become an AI powerhouse. If you’re a CFO, it looks like a…