The AI beat is saturated with hype. TechSpective’s coverage looks at what things mean, not just what happened. When a new model ships or a platform adds agentic capability, we dig into what actually changes and for whom, from LLMs and agentic systems to AI PCs and the security risks of running AI in production.
The word “intelligent” gets attached to a lot of things in enterprise tech, and most senior leaders have learned to read right past it. That skepticism is valid. When every platform, every storage array, and every SaaS dashboard claims intelligence,
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When businesses evaluate new technology, the conversation usually follows a familiar path. What are our pain points? What problem are we solving? Can we build it or buy it? What will it cost? Who will support it? For most technology
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Reflecting on my time judging the recent HP Future of Work Accelerator Pitch Fest in New York, something kept gnawing at me. As I sat alongside my fellow judges—Antara Lahiri, Catherina Gioino, and HP’s Michele Malejki—we watched five remarkable organizations
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I realize I am dating myself to some extent, but my first cell phone plan came with a fixed number of minutes and a small allotment of text messages, and anything beyond that was billed one at a time. You
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Whenever a single vendor captures 80 percent of a highly lucrative market, history tells us two things are about to happen. First, the dominant player will begin to act as if their moat is impenetrable, often prioritizing lock-in and margin
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Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond experimentation. Today, organizations across virtually every industry have access to increasingly sophisticated AI tools capable of automating tasks, enhancing customer experiences, improving decision-making, and driving operational efficiencies at scale. Yet despite the rapid pace of
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When an autonomous AI escapes its sandbox to hack a major tech company, science fiction becomes science fact. It is time for executives to take rogue foundation models incredibly seriously. I have spent decades analyzing the technology industry, observing the
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Illinois has chosen to move before Washington. Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act on July 6, 2026, adding transparency, accountability and audit requirements for the largest artificial intelligence developers. The law applies to companies generating more
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We are currently witnessing a profound architectural inversion in the world of enterprise computing that will define the next decade of corporate IT strategy. For the better part of a decade, conventional IT wisdom dictated that all significant computing workloads
Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She’s a professor at Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She
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