Google cannot build its fence around the open web if publishers stop supplying the bricks. A handful of major media companies are considering cutting it off. Every publisher should be prepared to join them.

Every email app promising to tame high-volume inboxes with AI eventually buckled under real load — memory bloat, crashes, daily force-quits. After exhausting the field, one operator found the surprising fix wasn’t a new tool at all, but the one he’d abandoned years earlier, now rebuilt for exactly this problem.

Data centers. Data centers everywhere. For most of the generative […]

Starbucks’ decision to build AI-assisted replacements for enterprise applications rattled software stocks. The larger warning is that AI may be overturning the economics that made “buy, don’t build” enterprise orthodoxy.

Enterprise customers already pay for software. Vendors shouldn’t treat their data as a second form of payment.

Every June, International Women in Engineering Day lands on the […]

As China explores underwater AI data centers and SpaceX looks toward orbital compute, a much bigger story is emerging. The AI revolution may ultimately be defined not by the models we build, but by the unprecedented physical infrastructure required to power them—and by the question of whether infrastructure this consequential should serve a few companies or all mankind.

For years, networking was treated as infrastructure plumbing. AI is changing that equation. As enterprises move beyond GPUs and models toward operating AI at scale, Cisco is betting the next strategic layer is the network itself.

Futurum’s acquisition of ETR looks like a data play. Shimmy says it’s something more complicated — a bet that the future of technology research belongs to firms that can combine analyst expertise with direct market evidence, and a question about whether that combination actually works.

The integration of ETR’s deep, buyer-driven survey data into Futurum’s advisory framework tackles a historic weakness in the technology analyst industry: the loose accountability loop between strategic forecasting and actual enterprise deployment.