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.
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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We are standing on the precipice of a monumental shift in how humans interact with machines. For over four decades, the personal computer has been a fundamentally passive device. It waits for a keystroke, a mouse click, or a touch
Companies are investing in AI at record levels, yet most are still struggling to translate it into measurable business value. The well-known MIT study, State of AI in Business 2025, concludes that 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots have failed to
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The PC industry has never been shy about creating labels. Multimedia PC. Internet PC. Ultrabook. Creator laptop. Gaming rig. Workstation. Some of those labels described real shifts in architecture or use. Others mostly offered marketing teams a new sticker for
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AMD is aggressively reshaping local AI development with massive memory capabilities in its new Ryzen AI Halo platform and Max PRO processors, leaving competitors scrambling to match this raw power. Here in my home office in the high desert of
At this year’s Google I/O, the atmosphere at the Shoreline Amphitheatre was electric as the CEO laid out a vision for a world deeply intertwined with agentic AI. We heard about the sheer computing muscle of the new TPU 8i
If I’ve learned anything in my decades covering the tech industry, it’s that we have a pathological obsession with “the engine.” In the 90s, we obsessed over clock speeds while our software crashed. In the 2000s, we obsessed over browser
