If you listened only to earnings calls in late 2025, you’d think Salesforce had pulled off the corporate magic trick of the decade. Four thousand customer service jobs gone. AI agents stepping in. Costs down. Efficiency up. Future secured. Marc Benioff said the quiet part out loud: they needed fewer people now. Four months later,…
There is a pattern the tech industry keeps repeating. A product ships with sensors, connectivity, and software layered on top of ordinary hardware. It is labeled “smart.” Expectations spike. A year later, it quietly disappears. This is not an AI problem. It predates generative models by a decade. The real issue is that intelligence is…
On October 13, 1994, Netscape Navigator became free for everyone – 31 years ago this week. It wasn’t just a software release, it was a cultural spark. Suddenly, the web stopped being a niche experiment for universities and became something anyone could wander into. The idea that a browser could be free changed everything: the…
Big Tech isn’t just investing in OpenAI. It’s underwriting an industrial-scale bet on the future of AI. Nvidia’s $100 billion supply-and-finance play, Oracle’s $300 billion cloud commitment, and OpenAI’s 10-gigawatt data centers show how AI is colliding with energy, hardware, and geopolitics. Here’s what it really means for the industry – and for you. OpenAI…
Google just told a U.S. court the quiet part out loud: the open web is already in rapid decline. The company later narrowed what it meant, focusing on open-web display advertising, but the thrust stands. If you work anywhere near publishing or search, it tracks with lived reality: less referral traffic, more AI summaries, more…
Most people meet artificial intelligence through chat. You ask for a summary, a fix, a recipe, a pep talk. The reply is fast, confident, and eerily tuned to your mood. It feels like wisdom. It is mostly pattern matching with great bedside manner. That’s the core problem with AI chatbot reliability: the interface flatters you,…
I like clean stories. This one starts with a name and a date. On 18 August 2025, Reuters reported that ARM hired Rami Sinno, the Amazon executive who helped ship Trainium and Inferentia, to push ARM from blueprint seller to silicon shipper. That sentence carries more weight than it looks. It says ARM is done…
I’m Cal, and I’ll give it to you straight. As of August 2025, AI is loud, useful, and occasionally brilliant, but it is not steering your city budget, rewriting trade policy, or quietly deciding who wins elections. We’re still in the tools era. The good news: there is a sane ladder from where we are…
AI assistants are multiplying faster than “coming soon” blockchain startups did in 2017, and most of them share one ugly truth: your prompts aren’t just answers waiting to happen – they’re fuel for someone else’s machine-learning pipeline. The marketing calls it improvement. I call it unpaid labour, with a side of surveillance. Proton’s Lumo claims…
I’ve lost track of how many “private” AI assistants I’ve tested that turned out to be just another way to funnel your data into some corporation’s training pipeline. So when Proton – the people behind Proton Mail and Proton Drive – announced Lumo, my skepticism was on full alert. I’ve seen too many tech companies…
