Technology

Demand is melting hardware, throttling performance, and showing just how brittle the infrastructure behind AI’s biggest platforms really is

With promised features missing, the rollout echoes a broader trend of overpromising and underdelivering in AI.

With training lagging and pressure mounting, businesses risk losing talent and momentum in a workplace increasingly shaped by automation.

With fresh data running out online, AI bots are swarming Wikimedia, creating costly bandwidth surges and risking future paywalls.

By buying The Search Monitor, Similarweb adds compliance firepower, but integration hurdles and pricing shifts may test smaller clients

With video ad completion rates topping 80% and new measurement partners onboard, Roblox is positioning itself as a premium ad platform for younger audiences.

On today’s podcast episode, we discuss why people might become more worried about using AI at work, why they might become less worried, and how significant an impact artificial intelligence has had on jobs already. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Vice President Henry Powderly, and Senior Analyst Gadjo Sevilla, for the conversation. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

Companies like Klarna and StubHub are loading IPO documents with AI buzzwords, risking SEC scrutiny and signaling a growing AI bubble driven more by marketing than substance.

xAI’s takeover of X gives it AI training data, compute power, and a ready-made audience—offering a path to revive X’s ad business and investor confidence.

Meta’s CTO claims nimbleness trumps incumbency in AI. However, Meta’s AI future still depends on the health of its core ad business.

Amazon’s AI can track prices and book trips, pushing advertisers to prep for automation and agent-optimized experiences.

As feature parity becomes strategy, Meta chases engagement and relevance.

The EC weighs soft enforcement on Apple and Meta to sidestep tensions with Trump, risking weakened regulatory leverage.

Government missteps turned into a viral ad for privacy, giving Signal a rare shot at user loyalty in a market crowded by data-hungry giants.

By integrating iSpot’s tools, Paramount aims to attract ad dollars with sharper data on purchases, attention, and campaign impact across TV and streaming.

A $40 billion funding round could boost its value, but mounting pressure from Big Tech and nimble rivals threatens to outpace its growth.

With physical sales fading and subscription interest rising, smart in-game ads offer consistent revenues without alienating players.

Apple’s use of Look Around for model training demonstrates a resourceful strategy shift—using proprietary assets as public data reaches its limit.

Gemini 2.5 Pro’s logic-based responses and deep Workspace integration give it a massive edge in mainstream, enterprise-ready AI adoption

With Researcher and Analyst, Copilot gets smarter at handling strategy and data—key upgrades as businesses demand more value.