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Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026 Jan 01, 2026

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The exact impact AI will have on the enterprise labor market is unclear but investors predict trends will start to emerge in 2026.

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The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly? Dec 31, 2025

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"We're not going to be using iPhones in 10 years," Callaghan says flatly. "I kind of don't think we'll be using them in five years."

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VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026 — through fewer vendors Dec 31, 2025

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Enterprises have been experimenting with AI tools for a few years. Investors predict they will start to pick winners in 2026.

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Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about Dec 30, 2025

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Meta Platforms is acquiring Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup that’s become the talk of Silicon Valley since it debuted last spring with a demo video that showed an AI agent doing things like screening job candidates, planning vacations, and analyzing stock portfolios. Manus claimed at the time that it outperformed OpenAI’s Deep Research.

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Why the electrical grid needs more software Dec 30, 2025

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The electrical grid is facing unprecedented stress from the addition of new data centers. Software could offer a cost-effective way to boost reliability and capacity.

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You’ve been targeted by government spyware. Now what? Dec 29, 2025

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Tech companies are increasingly warning their customers that they have been targeted by governments with advanced government spyware, such as NSO's Pegasus or Paragon's Graphite. What happens after receiving a threat notification?

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Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government spyware Dec 29, 2025

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For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone Dec 26, 2025

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As Nigel Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most.

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How would the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal reshape Hollywood? Dec 25, 2025

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The $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros., and the acquisition has already been described as sending Hollywood into “full-blown panic mode,” “possibly a death blow to theatrical filmmaking,” and maybe even “the end of Hollywood” itself.

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OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo? Dec 24, 2025

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TechCrunch's Dominic-Madori Davis writes about women who ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn's new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But experts say there's more complexity involved.

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