2026-07-23

Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%

Sundar Pichai spent Alphabet’s Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether the company had quietly ceded the frontier to OpenAI and Anthropic. “We’ve had clearly frontier […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]

2026-07-23

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way of describing a self that turns its love […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-23

Geopolitical interference takes center stage during the World Cup

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event ever staged. This makes for an unprecedented attack surface for threat actors. [...]

2026-07-23

The best — and most stunning — sunrise spots in the world

From Angkor Wat's dawn reflection in a still pond to Fairbanks where northern lights overlap with a pink arctic sunrise over the snow [...]

2026-07-23

Best graphic novels for kids they'll want to read again and again

These five picks feature adventure, friendship, fantasy and heartfelt stories that make reading exciting for kids [...]

2026-07-23

‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease. [...]

2026-07-23

Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video. [...]

2026-07-23

MANGOS is not the endgame. It is the beginning

Forget simple AI upgrades. MANGOS is just the foundation for a total company redesign. [...]

2026-07-23

Everyone hates massive data centers. This $18 billion CEO has a better way to get you the AI compute you need

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton shares his contrarian vision for building a faster (and cheaper) kind of AI infrastructure. And he’s got Nvidia on his side. [...]