Apple hiring news usually arrives with the emotional texture of a firmware update: important, inevitable, and delivered in a tone best described as “silent mode.” So when a well-known independent designer openly announces he’s joining Apple’s design team—and the story pops up across the Apple ecosystem in a matter of hours—you pay attention. On January…
The First Human Test of “Rejuvenation” Is Finally Here: Life Biosciences, Epigenetic Reprogramming, and What FDA Clearance Really Means
On January 27, 2026, MIT Technology Review published a story with a headline that sounds like it escaped from a sci‑fi writer’s room: “The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin ‘shortly’”. The piece (and the discussion it immediately triggered across the internet) centers on a milestone that longevity researchers have been inching…
Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going: What WIRED’s ‘For Future Reference’ Gets Right (and What Comes Next)
On January 27, 2026, WIRED published a neat little reality check titled Where Tech Leaders and Students Really Think AI Is Going. It’s part of WIRED’s freshly sharpened “For Future Reference” framing, and it reads like what happens when you put AI CEOs, policy wonks, artists, and UC Berkeley students in the same room, then…
The Power of Sound in a Virtual World: Why Audio Is the Real MVP of VR, AR, and Online Meetings
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 Technology Review Insights’ Laurel Ruma and features Erik Vaveris (Vice President of Product Management and Chief Marketing Officer at Shure) and Brian Scholl (Director of…
Claude Cowork: How Anthropic Is Turning Claude Into Shared AI Infrastructure (and Why Teams Should Care)
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 you ask again next week. That workflow has been remarkably popular for something that’s basically the digital equivalent of shouting questions into a canyon. Anthropic…
Chatbots for Health Are Here. So Are the AI Regulation Knife Fights.
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 escalating U.S. political brawl over who gets to regulate AI. The item was published by MIT Technology Review (the original creator), and the specific “The…
Everything in Voice AI Just Changed: What Enterprise Builders Can Do Next (and What Could Go Wrong)
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 about it. A synthetic voice replies after a pause long enough for you to question your life choices. If you interrupt, it keeps talking like…
Railway’s $100M Series B Is a Bet That “AI-Native” Cloud Won’t Look Like AWS (and That Developers Are Done Waiting)
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, paste IAM policy, then wait again” is running out of cultural runway. The news was first reported by Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, which is the…
One Year Into Trump 2.0: How Big Tech Outmaneuvered MAGA Populists (and Why AI Was the Wedge)
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 corporate hostage video. Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Bezos. Sundar Pichai. Everyone standing close enough to be in the shot, far enough to deny they were friends.…
The Download: America’s New Digital-Rights Muscle Flex, and Why AI Companions Are About to Get Regulated Like a Nightclub
On January 19, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s The Download newsletter bundled two stories that look unrelated at first glance: a US government move against prominent European digital-rights figures, and the rapid rise of “AI companions” (chatbots people treat as friends, therapists, lovers, or all three at once). The connective tissue is power—who gets to shape…