AI Industry Hits Reality Check After Year of Record Spending
The money printer ran hot for AI companies in early 2025. Then reality showed up uninvited. OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Two startups pulled in $2
The money printer ran hot for AI companies in early 2025. Then reality showed up uninvited. OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Two startups pulled in $2
AI-generated content exploded this year. Videos went from clunky disasters to near-perfect fakes in seven months flat. But here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud: None of
I’ve covered automotive tech at the Consumer Electronics Show since 2009. Back then, car tech meant aftermarket speakers and Garmin GPS units. Now we’re talking about actual
Your phone buzzes. Apple or Google says government hackers targeted you. What now? Jay Gibson knew what this meant. He used to work at spyware companies. Still, panic hit hard
Those celebrity deepfakes flooding your feed? They’re getting harder to catch every day. AI video generators like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo 3 crossed a threshold this year.
ChatGPT can now order your lunch, build your playlists, and book your rides. No switching between apps. No copying and pasting. Just tell it what you need.
Scanning barcodes at the grocery store used to mean checking prices. Now it means understanding exactly what’s inside your food.
Chatbots are nice. But they miss the point entirely. The most powerful AI applications need speed and privacy that distant data centers simply can’t deliver. So the industry is
Nalden walked away from WeTransfer in 2019. Now he’s back to fix what broke after his departure. The file-sharing service he co-founded in 2009 changed hands last year. Bending
Nvidia built an empire by investing in startups that turn around and buy Nvidia chips with borrowed money. Now that circular system faces serious threats from every direction.