Meta recently agreed to a seventeen-billion-dollar settlement resolving ongoing youth addiction lawsuits. The deal forces Facebook to implement strict daily time limits for teenage users. Executives are paying billions to actively lock kids out of their own platforms. This won’t
I track these industry shifts from my home office here in Bend, Oregon. I serve as the Trustee for a shopping center-owning trust (or did). Recently, I finalized the official closing date for the shopping center we held in Tustin,
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The Google Pixel launch event in New York was amazing! Trevor Noah opened the stage with his standard comedic delivery. A musical set from PinkPantheress followed him. The entertainment quickly gave way to a stark corporate message when Rick Osterloh
For the past three years, the technology industry has been utterly obsessed with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). This made perfect sense during the initial generative AI boom, where the primary workloads involved training massive Large Language Models (LLMs) and generating
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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We are currently navigating one of the most profound transformative phases in the history of the tech industry. As brilliantly demonstrated by the opening video at the AMD Advancing AI 2026 Keynote in San Francisco, the raw computational power required
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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
I was at the AWE (Augmented World Expo) and even though the name seemed to imply the kind of plastic surgery you’d see in Las Vegas this show was all about augmented and virtual reality. As always Qualcomm’s Vuforia group
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Hillary Clinton, who is the non-declared front runner to be the next US President, used a personal email server during her time as Secretary of State. Supposedly the Administration wasn’t aware of this and she says she did it because
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