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The $80 Billion Retreat: Why Meta is Finally Giving Up on VR

News spread quickly this week that Meta was finally calling time on its namesake: the Metaverse. In reality, they were just pullin…

March 2026

Analysis

Can Governments Handle a Generation Displaced by AI?

The news is packed with layoff fervour. But what about those that can’t get a first job to be laid off from? Recent stats have pus…

March 2026

Analysis

Too Big to Fail by 2027: OpenAI’s $200M Gamble for Survival

Following the analysis from our latest podcast, where we broke down Anthropic’s pivot away from the public sector and OpenAI’s agg…

March 2026

Analysis

The hidden paradox of AI layoffs

Data released earlier this month from New York, a state that requires companies to reveal their reasons for layoffs, raised eyebro…

February 2026

Analysis

Agentic AI’s Moltbot Security Crisis: Bad Architecture or Bad Engineering?

Clawdbot. Moltbot. The same agentic AI assistant, wearing different names after Anthropic raised reasonable objections to the orig…

January 2026

Analysis

From AGI to adverts: A new money-making scheme

To say OpenAI’s latest foray into revenue generation is underwhelming might sound glib, but it marks a staggering retreat from the…

January 2026

Analysis

Ads in OpenAI: Can they plug the financial gap?

There’s a prevailing and entirely understandable scepticism about OpenAI’s prospects. In a recent interview, Sam Altman brushed of…

December 2025

Analysis

Humanoid robots provide a pragmatic fix for manufacturers

In October, reports emerged of Western business leaders returning from China deeply unsettled. The spooked execs bore testimony of…

October 2025

Analysis

Microsoft Just Accidentally Armed Voice Cloners Everywhere

Microsoft recently released, and then abruptly retracted, an open-source text-to-speech model named VibeVoice. The model was capab…

September 2025

Analysis

OpenAI: Their own research reveals a troubling utility challenge

OpenAI’s latest research explores how people are using ChatGPT. Three big categories dominate the field. Writing (of which, thankf…

September 2025

Analysis

Meta’s New App Lets Strangers Walk Through Your House

Meta just shipped something genuinely fresh: Hyperscape, a photorealistic scene capture for Quest 3/3S that lets you scan a real s…

September 2025

Analysis

Is Microsoft’s Anthropic gambit a sign of partnership panic?

Microsoft just announced it will integrate Anthropic s AI models into Office 365, marking a stunning departure from its exclusive …

September 2025

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