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It’s almost impossible to ignore AI.That doesn’t mean it’s always easy to understand. From agentic AI to UBI, tech CEOs, Wall Street, and politicians increasingly sound like they are speaking another language. The terms seem to change almost as quickly as AI models themselves advance.Even if you don’t use AI, chances are your bank, your doctor, the streaming service you’re using, and maybe even your car do.Here’s a list of the people, companies, and terms you need to know to talk about AI, in alphabetical order.The AI terms you need to knowAgentic: A type of artificial intelligence that can make…
Austin Lau, who works in marketing at Anthropic, may have just set a new standard for AI-powered wedding planning.Ahead of marrying his longtime partner, Lau used Claude Code to analyze 12 years of iMessages between the couple, then fed the data into Claude Design to generate a custom wedding website packed with stats, charts, and inside jokes. He posted this on X, racking up more than 3 million views.The result looked like a Spotify Wrapped for their relationship: 161,000 messages, 8,600 shared photos, almost 28,000 emojis, and nearly 1,800 “I love you” texts. One chart mapped their texting habits over…
I love emojis.Yup. That’s me, in 2026. Out loud and proud.The caveat — of course, there’s a caveat — is that my emoji love is very specific: I love using emojis to modify messages in a text chat.This feels dumb to explain, because you have phones, so you’ve almost certainly seen this, even if you’re not using it yourself.But to be clear: You use these when your friend tells you the dinner reservation is for 7, and you reply by appending a “thumbs up” to their note. Or someone posts something dumb in the groupchat, and you add a “ha…
Call it Europemaxxing. Call it a Scandinavian surge. Whatever is happening, Europe’s tech scene is feeling hot.From Legora to Lovable, Klarna to Yann LeCunn’s new AMI Labs, a new generation of European startups is bedding in and defying the pull of Silicon Valley. In some areas, they’re matching or pulling in front of their US rivals.Swedish AI legal startup Legora, a challenger to US-headquartered Harvey, says it counts 20% of the 100 highest-grossing US law firms among its customers, and last month hit a major revenue milestone. The Swedish vibe-coding titan Lovable, valued at $6.6 billion, recently saw its recurring…
Vibe coding is addictive: build one app with AI, and suddenly, you’re tokenmaxxing your way through all the free credits.That’s exactly what happened to me weeks after my experiment with building an Asana-inspired dashboard for my team.This time, a friend asked me to build a Pinterest-style web app to help her create moodboards for a creative project. I wanted to see if I could do it within the free limit on the AI coding platform Base44, now that I’ve got more experience with vibe coding.The experiment taught me the limits of my own capabilities as a nontechnical user and gave…
On a recent sunny spring day, Father Eric Salobir led a delegation through St. Peter’s Square, past the crowds and toward Pope Leo XIV.With him were representatives of Meta, Google, and Amazon, part of a small group gathered in Rome to discuss child protection in the age of artificial intelligence. The encounter with the pope was brief. The meeting that followed, in the French embassy to the Holy See in central Rome, lasted for hours.There, Paolo Ruffini, the Vatican’s top communications official, sat across from the tech representatives to wrestle with a question now at the center of Leo’s young…
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the din around us, de Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered useful advice for companies navigating the AI security moment we’re all living through, noting that “there’ll be a transition period, and then I think we get to this better place.” He wasn’t speaking about Google at that moment, but it’s clear that even Google is still figuring things out. De Souza’s core message was one security professionals have…
The smart glasses industry has long been a tortured dream of Silicon Valley. The premise is appealing enough: What if, to enjoy the benefits of mobile computing, people didn’t have to stare at their phones all day long and could, instead, simply wear a lightweight computing device on their face? Science-fiction fans (a demographic that is strong in the tech industry) can see this vision perfectly. However, the industry has — for much of the last decade — resembled a financial black hole into which gargantuan investments have been sunk and from which little to no profit has ever emerged.…
X is introducing new strategies to rein in its copycat economy.Elon Musk’s social media platform is now cracking down on large accounts that have been “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” to game its creator revenue-share program, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, said.That program lets eligible creators earn money from engagement on the platform, which has also created an incentive for some accounts to rapidly repost or repackage viral content before the original creator gets the credit.Over the past month, we have identified a number of large accounts that have been programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts to game…
Tech CEOs have a lot to manage, from earnings calls and board meetings to competition and employee morale.Now, in the age of AI, they also need a “boo strategy.”This year, graduates have heckled some executives during commencement speeches after the corporate leaders made optimistic comments about AI, reflecting a growing anxiety among students about to enter the job market.Students booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the University of Arizona, while Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta drew backlash at Middle Tennessee State University after he discussed AI’s impact on music and media.So the hosts of the tech podcast “Hard…