Real-time translation hardware used to be a curiosity — a crowdfunded earbud that half-worked on a good Wi-Fi day. In 2026 it's a real category, and the prices now run from about $23 to $699. We looked at 11 devices: 9 wearable earbuds and 2...
I keep a folder of CSVs that nobody at my company wants to touch: warranty claims, ad spend by channel, churn exports from three different billing systems. For two years the answer to "what happened in March?" was...
SpaceX's reported $60 billion acquisition of Cursor moves AI-assisted coding from standalone SaaS subscription into platform infrastructure owned by one of the world's most capital-intensive companies. For any agency...
I keep a folder of every "AI stock photo" generation I've rejected. It currently holds 412 images. Six-fingered hands, melted logos, text that reads like a ransom note, models with three earrings on one ear. The 2026...
Three of China's dominant AI platforms — ByteDance's Doubao, High-Flyer Quant's DeepSeek, and Alibaba's Qwen — approached the 2026 FIFA World Cup with measurably different prediction philosophies, and the divergence...
I started with a list of nineteen tools that put "voice cloning" on their homepage. Half of them were text-to-speech engines with a 30-second sample upload bolted on, which is fine, but it isn't the same thing as a...
The tech industry frames AI's labor market impact as a paradox: jobs disappear and new ones appear, net effect uncertain but probably fine. The OECD and IMF data tell a different story — the jobs that disappear and...
I reviewed a few dozen apps with some variation of "AI wedding planning" in their pitch. Most were a checklist with a chatbot wrapper — things you could replicate in Google Sheets in an afternoon. Six cleared a...
DeepSeek — the Hangzhou lab that trained a frontier model for a disclosed compute cost of roughly $5.5 million — has reportedly completed fine-tuning runs on Huawei's domestic Ascend 910C chips, extending China's AI...
Huawei's rotating chairman publicly credited US export restrictions with forcing China to build its own semiconductor supply chain — a chain that is now measurably deeper than it was in 2019. The gains at...
China's EngineAI says its new Shenzhen line builds a humanoid robot every 15 minutes. The real story isn't the speed — it's the price, the supply chain, and the gap between the claim and what ships in 2026.
I tested twenty-six video editing tools that advertise AI features in 2026. Most of them strap a transcript generator and a background remover onto a generic timeline and call it AI editing. A handful actually...
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