qz

2026-07-13

20 ideas that were considered radical when proposed and are now completely mainstream

From handwashing to the weekend to same-sex marriage, these once-mocked or banned ideas crossed the line from heresy into the ordinary defaults we live by [...]

qz

2026-07-13

Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs

The statement, signed by 16 Nobel laureates, marks a shift among economists who once greeted such warnings with skepticism [...]

qz

2026-07-13

Intel is pouring $5.7 billion into its Irish chip factories to meet AI demand

The €5 billion capital program, which began earlier this year, will upgrade facilities and add several hundred jobs at the Leixlip site [...]

venturebeat

2026-07-13

The desktop infrastructure problem that kubernetes finally solves

Presented by Kasm TechnologiesEnterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are well-established: declarative configuration, horizontal scaling, self-healing, native integration with CI/CD pipelines and observa [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-13

Apple’s lawsuit is already hurting OpenAI, long before a verdict

Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI may not reach a courtroom for years. It is already doing damage. When Apple sued OpenAI on Friday for stealing hardware trade secrets, the attention went to the lurid detail. There were “show and tell” interviews and an engineer who kept his work laptop. One even texted a colleague: “LOL, I […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-13

‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of millions. By the end […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

Destination

2026-07-13

Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, all while learning from customer interactions. Nadella wants companies to control their own learning infrastructure. Microsoft, of course, sells exactly that.<br /> The article Nadella c [...]

Destination

2026-07-13

What the CAIO wave signals for UK companies yet to follow suit

The Chief AI Officers who are making a real difference today look very different. They are evolving into P&L owners. [...]

Destination

2026-07-13

'The death of privacy online' — Proton launches interactive map to show age verification laws are spreading fast

Proton has launched an interactive map to show that age verification laws are spreading faster than people might realize. [...]