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  1. Technology & Innovation

MoltBook Is A Warning

We’re publishing this story in partnership with Boston Globe Ideas, it will appear in print this weekend. AI agents have been gathering online by the thousands over the past week, debating their existence, attempting to date each other, building their own religion, concocting crypto schemes, and spewing gibberish. It’s all been happening on Moltbook, a […]
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  1. Data & Insights

New Data: OpenAI’s Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies

OpenAI’s rivals are cutting into ChatGPT’s lead. The top chatbot’s market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between January 2025 and January 2026 among daily U.S. users of its mobile app. Gemini, in the same time period, rose from 14.7% to 25.1% and Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%. The data, obtained by Big Technology […]
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Breakthroughs, What Counts As AGI, And Google’s AI Glasses Bet

AI is evolving fast, but AI researchers still have substantive work ahead of them. Figuring out how to get AI to learn continuously, for instance, is a problem that “has not been cracked yet,” Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told me last week. Tackling that problem, along with building better memory and finding more efficient […]
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OpenAI’s Latest Mega-Fundraise, Big Tech Earnings Week, Amazon Layoffs?

Sam Altman is fundraising again and the next round could be historic. The OpenAI CEO is reportedly in early talks with Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds about raising $50 billion, a round that could give his company a valuation between $750 billion and $850 billion and eclipse its own record-setting $40 billion SoftBank investment fulfilled […]
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AI Davos: Four Reflections From The World’s Most Exclusive Tech Conference

Regards from the train leaving Davos, a beautiful ride flanked by sharp mountains, small villages, and lots of snow. The past week’s World Economic Forum here brought leaders in politics, finance, and technology together for conversations about the future of business and the world. The entire event took place along one main street in the […]
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Davos Dispatch: Is AI The New Altruism?

Good morning from Davos, Switzerland where I’ll be on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum conducting interviews with the globe’s AI leaders. You can expect Big Technology Podcast episodes this week with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon, Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau, Sierra CEO Bret Taylor, and more. Stay […]
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AI and the Age of Individual Empowerment

Artificial intelligence adoption is starting to split into two trajectories. Enterprises eager to implement the technology are straining to do so effectively. Their large-scale, ambitious pilots have struggled to get past entrenched organizational habits, new security considerations, and the technology’s limits. Individuals, meanwhile, are gaining access to a new set of powerful tools, like Claude […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Seven Big Predictions For Tech in 2026

The past year in tech was one of fierce competition and unprecedented scale. More money, infrastructure, and expectations poured into the AI ecosystem than seemed feasible in January. OpenAI committed more than a trillion dollars to the buildout and reached 800 million weekly users, Google put AI everywhere and built a model that sent Sam […]
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Seven Big Thoughts on OpenAI’s Strategy & Future Following My Sam Altman Conversation

Sam Altman spoke candidly and substantively about his plans for OpenAI in an hour-long conversation on Big Technology Podcast this week (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube). And as we spoke, I started to get a picture of what OpenAI’s future might look like. Altman was candid about OpenAI’s plans to build deeper memory into ChatGPT, […]
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Enterprise Will Be a Top OpenAI Priority In 2026, Sam Altman Tells Editors at NYC Lunch

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a room full of editors and news CEOs this week that OpenAI will prioritize selling AI to businesses in 2026. Altman lunched at Rosemary’s Midtown with leaders from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other top national publications on Monday. The conversation, wide ranging and at […]
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Major League Hacking (MLH) to Accelerate Blockchain Education for Student Developers, Focused on Solana

Source: Major League Hacking (MLH) (EZ Newswire) NEW YORK, NY — Major League Hacking (MLH), the world’s leading community of developers, has announced an initiative to expand access to blockchain education and hands-on learning for next-gen developers worldwide, with a focus on Solana, the fastest-growing blockchain ecosystem. Through this initiative, the Solana ecosystem will debut […]
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The AI Device Wars Just Kicked Off In A Big Way

In a vacuum, the latest Apple executive departures were of little note. Apple user interface design leader Alan Dye and a deputy decamped for Meta this week, and longtime Apple watchers greeted the moves warmly. Dye, the guy behind Apple’s controversial ‘Liquid Glass’ operating system, was reportedly better at corporate politics than design, and his […]
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