The enterprise voice AI split: Why architecture — not model quality — defines your compliance posture

For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick [...]

The Environmental and Human Rights Costs of China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad

Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas, but the projects are having significant social, environmental, and human rights impac [...]

SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

In short: SiFive, the RISC-V chip IP firm founded by the Berkeley engineers who created the open-source instruction set architecture, raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G on April 9, 202 [...]

Summer Game Fest runs from June 5-8

It's getting to be that time of year again. Summer Game Fest officially kicks off on June 5 and will go until June 8. The Live Kickoff show will once again be hosted by Geoff Keighley and takes p [...]

Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs

In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requiring users to open another application, [...]

Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features

A wave of Workspace updates puts Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, with a benchmark result Google is happy to shout about. The blinking cursor is Google’s enemy. Every time a Workspace [...]

Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws

In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each [...]

The 10 best communities for aging gracefully in America, according to AARP

These communities offer retired Americans better access to healthcare, walkable neighborhoods, social engagement, and safety [...]

Big stages, smaller impact.

For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, more panels, more noise. Five thousand people became ten thousand. Ten thousand became the goal. Some [...]