On January 26, 2026, MIT Technology Review published (via its Business Lab channel) an episode titled “The power of sound in a virtual world”. The conversation is hosted by MIT…
When most people think “AI assistant,” they still picture a glorified autocomplete box with manners: you ask, it answers, you copy-paste, you forget where you put the answer, and then…
On January 23, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s “The Download” put two stories side-by-side that, frankly, deserve to be in the same room: the rapid rise of health chatbots and the…
Voice AI has always had a small PR problem: it’s been marketed like the future, but behaved like a bad conference call. You say something. A server far away thinks…
On January 22, 2026, Railway announced a $100 million Series B that reads like a polite but unmistakable challenge to the hyperscalers: the era of “click here, wait two minutes,…
2025 was the year the U.S. semiconductor market stopped pretending it was “just” an industry and fully embraced its new role as a geopolitical sport, an AI arms race, and…
When Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term on January 20, 2025, the photo-op of Silicon Valley royalty in the Capitol rotunda looked like the closing scene of a…
AWS has a habit of shipping new EC2 instance families like it’s dropping surprise albums. On January 20, 2026, the company quietly added another entry to the “please update your…
Retail has always loved a good dashboard. It’s comforting: neat charts, tidy KPIs, and enough color gradients to make a PowerPoint feel like a work of art. But dashboards also…
AI coding is now everywhere. If you can open an IDE, you can probably also open a dropdown full of copilots, agents, “plan modes,” and chat panes that promise to…