Smartphone prices are about to get even worse
Xiaomi’s president just dropped some bad news for smartphone shoppers. Memory chip prices are skyrocketing thanks to AI demand, and those costs are coming directly to your next phone purchase in 2026.
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Earnings and Jobs: A Huge Week for Markets
According to The Wall Street Journal, the week of February 2nd is stacked with major financial events. Earnings season continues with Alphabet and Amazon reporting…
Tesla Stock Jumps on Musk Merger Buzz
According to Reuters, shares of Tesla jumped nearly 5% on Friday, January 30th, after reports surfaced of merger talks within Elon Musk's empire. SpaceX is…
Apple Almost Picked Claude Over Google for Siri, Says Report
According to MacRumors, citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on the TBPN podcast, Apple was initially planning to rebuild its Siri assistant around Anthropic's Claude AI model.…
Windows 11 Tiling Managers That Are Way Better Than Snap Layouts
According to XDA-Developers, power users tired of Windows 11's basic Snap Layouts have at least four superior third-party options for true tiling window management. These…
US Pushes Allies on Rare Earth Price Fix to Counter China
According to Bloomberg Business, a senior Trump administration official, Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg, says the US will seek a consensus with allies on…
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Forget the CAIO, You Need an AI “Magician”
According to ZDNet, there's a major debate over who should own AI strategy, with 60% of companies already having a Chief AI Officer and another…
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X’s New “Edited” Image Labels Are a Mess Waiting to Happen
According to TechCrunch, Elon Musk has teased a new feature for X that will label "edited visuals," resharing an announcement…
Why 95% of AI Projects Fail and How to Actually Scale Them
According to VentureBeat, organizations are stuck in "proof-of-concept purgatory" with AI, with MIT research estimating a staggering 95% of enterprise…
Meta Pulls the Plug on Teen AI Chatbots
According to Futurism, Meta announced on Friday that it is cutting off teenagers' access to its AI chatbot characters, starting…
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Apple Might Drop Two MacBook Pro Upgrades This Year. Seriously.
According to Mashable, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is planning not one, but two separate MacBook Pro upgrades in 2026. The first wave, expected…
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Earnings and Jobs: A Huge Week for Markets
According to The Wall Street Journal, the week of February 2nd is stacked with major financial events. Earnings season continues with Alphabet and Amazon reporting…
Apple Quietly Updates Power Adapters and Magic Accessories
Apple has rolled out firmware updates for several key accessories including the 140W USB-C Power Adapter and Magic Keyboard lineup. The updates bring newer firmware versions automatically to connected devices. This marks the first update for USB-C accessories launched in October 2024.
a16z Bets $21M on AI Tax Startup That Founder Needed Himself
Sphere just landed $21 million in Series A funding led by a16z to automate tax compliance for global companies. The startup uses AI to handle registration, calculation, and filing across 100+ tax authorities. Founder Nicholas Rudder built the product after struggling with international taxes at his
Cloudflare Outage Takes Down X, ChatGPT in Global Disruption
A major Cloudflare network outage disrupted access to popular websites including X, ChatGPT, and Shopify for several hours Tuesday morning. The company identified a bug in its bot mitigation service that crashed after a configuration update around 6:30 a.m. EST. Cloudflare reported the incident reso
Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic’s $45 Billion AI Power Play
In a massive AI infrastructure deal, Anthropic will buy $30 billion of compute from Microsoft Azure while receiving $15 billion in combined investments from Nvidia and Microsoft. This represents one of the largest AI deals ever and signals where the industry is heading. The arrangement further conso
A $100 Million AI Super PAC Just Picked Its First Political Target
Leading the Future, a $100 million pro-AI super PAC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, has identified its first political target. The group is going after Alex Bores, a Democratic congressional candidate who sponsored New York’s RAISE Act requiring AI safety plans and disclosu
Microsoft Wants to Give Your AI an Employee ID
Microsoft is launching Agent 365 to manage AI agents as digital employees. The system gives each agent a unique ID and integrates with existing corporate security tools. This comes as the AI agent market is projected to explode from $7.8 billion to over $50 billion by 2030.
Microsoft’s Agentic AI Pitch Faces Analyst Skepticism
Microsoft is betting big on agentic AI to simplify cloud operations, but industry analysts aren’t convinced. They’re questioning whether this creates more administrative complexity than it solves. The debate centers on whether this is genuine innovation or just “agentic washing” of existing technolo