A growing body of research is challenging a popular wellness trend. Microdosing psychedelics, long promoted by tech workers and artists, may not ease depression beyond the effects of expectation, according
This week made one thing clear: synthetic video is no longer a party trick. It is usable, scalable, and jaw-droppingly real. My take is simple. China’s permissive approach to intellectual
You can usually tell when a system has crossed the threshold from scrappy to scaled. The codebase gets larger, the org chart fills out, and suddenly every problem seems to
You have seen the moment when a platform tips from enabling teams to slowing them down. Every change requires coordination across five services. Incident response turns into archeology. New engineers
You do not notice hot partitions when your system is small. Everything is fast. Latency charts are boring. Your autoscaling group barely wakes up. Then traffic grows. Suddenly, one shard
You probably have a scar story. A downstream service crashes at 2 a.m. because a “harmless” field was renamed. A data warehouse job silently drops a column, and no one
You shipped the model. Offline benchmarks looked strong. The demo impressed leadership. Then production traffic hit and latency spiked, GPU utilization hovered at 30 percent, and your carefully tuned pipeline
Airbnb has moved a large share of its North American customer support to an artificial intelligence agent, marking one of its biggest steps yet into automated service. CEO Brian Chesky
At the Munich Security Conference, the U.S. secretary of state urged deeper coordination with European partners, framing unity as essential for security and economic stability. The comments, delivered in Munich
Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon discussed succession plans, the squeeze from inflation, tariff risks, and artificial intelligence on “Mornings with Maria,” laying out how the nation’s largest retailer plans to
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, adding a 1 million-token context window, multi-agent “agent teams” in Claude Code, and new API controls. The move raises the stakes in enterprise AI
Hennion & Walsh Asset Management’s president and chief investment officer, Kevin Mahn, is steering attention to an AI-fueled spending wave and the sectors set to benefit. In a recent discussion,
Thesis: the best phone lookup APIs are engineered for outcomes, not curiosity A phone lookup API is often pitched as “just enrichment,” but in practice, it becomes part of a
Artificial intelligence is moving from pitch meetings to the set, with television and film creators testing new tools to write, edit, and localize content faster. On Fox & Friends, tech
Fauna is staking its future on a simple idea: humanoid robots can do useful jobs in hospitality, research, and entertainment. The young company is entering a field where tech ambitions
AI is racing ahead, and the energy bill is exploding with it. Gigawatt-scale data centers rise like new factories, each hungry for power. I believe we have the problem backwards.
OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT. That decision may keep access free for more people, but it carries a cost that isn’t measured in dollars. My view is simple:
Machine learning teams can spend months developing more complex models. This is often seen as a solution to performance issues, but the root cause of failure lies in inconsistent or
As the city marks another year since the September 11 attacks, a single memory captures how crisis can reorder a life. A New Yorker recalled the moment she learned her
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most cloud waste hides inside technically reliable systems. Reducing cloud costs without sacrificing reliability does not mean slashing instances or turning off redundancy. It means designing
MIT research scientist Judah Cohen has taken top honors in a major international weather contest, advancing a crucial piece of the climate puzzle: predicting weeks-ahead weather. His machine learning model,
U.S. officials have linked a 2009 message from Jeffrey Epstein to Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem of DP World, raising new questions about the late financier’s outreach and network after his
Your first WebSocket feature usually ships as a small miracle. One server, a handful of clients, and suddenly your product feels alive. Then production traffic shows up with its own
You rarely lose a system because of one obviously broken endpoint. You lose it because something subtle shifts. A new caching layer adds a tiny bit of overhead. A query
A Miami-based data software company said it secured new capital to speed growth. Matia, a unified data operations platform, announced a $21 million Series A round in Miami, Florida. The
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is moving past simple screen time limits and urging families to focus on what children do on screens, and when and where they use
Great software rarely fails because of weak ideas. It fails when systems cannot scale to handle growth. Users notice slow pages and broken features immediately. Trust drops even faster. Infrastructure
A judge has imposed the maximum sentence on Milton Otto Martin III for indecent behavior committed against a teenager 15 years ago, closing a long-running case that weighed on the
Legrand said on Thursday that surging demand for data centers is fueling growth and allowing a slight increase to its medium-term profitability targets, signaling confidence as digital infrastructure expands worldwide.
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has been expelled from the Winter Olympics after refusing to abandon a planned tribute to Ukraine’s war dead, a move that has reignited debate over