On January 16, 2026, MIT Technology Review published an edition of its weekday newsletter The Download titled “The Download: cut through AI coding hype, and biotech trends to watch”, credited…
AI infrastructure has spent the last couple of years doing its best impression of a garage-band soundcheck: loud, experimental, and held together by duct tape. Lots of innovation, sure—but also…
Retail has a long-standing love affair with dashboards. Beautiful, colorful dashboards. Dashboards with just enough filters to make you feel powerful and just enough dropdown menus to make you question…
Agentic AI is the new office intern who somehow has root access, an expense card, and the confidence to “just ship it.” If that sentence made your security team spill…
Silicon Valley has a long and proud tradition of doing extremely normal things to recruit engineers. You know: catered dinner talks, GitHub stars, the occasional “we have a foosball table”…
On January 15, 2026, TechCrunch reported that the AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai has signed a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp—with an initial deployment focused on Dow Jones Newswires. The…
For the last few years, the AI infrastructure story has been easy to summarize: buy more GPUs, pray the supply chain cooperates, and hope your CFO doesn’t discover what “H100”…
There are two kinds of AI image generators in 2026: the ones that can paint you a cinematic dragon at sunset, and the ones that can spell “Quarterly Revenue (Q4)”…
On January 14, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigation into xAI’s Grok over the alleged proliferation of nonconsensual sexually explicit images—some reportedly involving minors—generated and shared online.…
AI infrastructure has had an awkward teenage phase: fast growth, expensive habits, and a tendency to break in public. Over the past couple of years, organizations have raced from “we…