CES 2026 officially opens Tuesday in Las Vegas with 4,500 exhibitors across 2.6 million square feet. I've attended for decades. Here's what has my attention. Continue Reading →
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CES® 2026 opens in nine days, and for the thirteenth year, the Shelly Palmer Innovation Series Breakfast will bring together C-suite executives from the world's most influential media, marketing, and technology companies. Continue Reading →
A new study from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University suggests that over-reliance on generative AI may erode critical thinking skills. In other words: if you don’t use it, you lose it. Continue Reading →
Researchers from Stanford and the University of Washington have trained an AI “reasoning” model for less than $50 in cloud compute credits. Their model, s1, rivals OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 in math and coding benchmarks, raising serious questions about AI commoditization. Continue Reading →
The new Alexa integrates AI technology from Anthropic, an AI startup in which Amazon has invested $8 billion. Despite delays due to concerns over response accuracy and speed, Amazon expects the AI-powered assistant to enhance daily tasks, from scheduling to shopping. Analysts at Bank of America estimate that if just 10% of active Alexa users subscribe at $5 per month, the service could generate $600 million annually. Continue Reading →
Google is doubling down on AI-powered search. During yesterday's earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai outlined Google’s plans to transform Search into an AI-driven assistant, expanding beyond traditional query-based results. Continue Reading →
Anthropic, the AI research company behind the Claude family of LLMs, has launched a public test of its new Constitutional Classifier, a system designed to block jailbreaks that circumvent content restrictions. The test follows an extensive internal bug bounty program, where 183 security researchers spent more than 3,000 hours attempting to bypass the system—with limited success. Continue Reading →
The Authors Guild – the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for published writers – has launched the Human Authored Certification, which allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. "Human Authored" means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal or trivial uses (such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research). Continue Reading →
Why the history lesson? Because everyone should have known this was coming. To be very clear, it's going to keep happening. We are living on the exponential. The cost ratio of OpenAI to DeepSeek is a pretty clear example of what an exponential shift in cost looks like. Continue Reading →
Greetings from Las Vegas. I spent a few hours wandering the CES floor and stumbled upon something extraordinary in North Hall: the Land Aircraft Carrier by XPeng AeroHT, a subsidiary of XPeng Motors. Continue Reading →