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Europe’s social media age shift: Will tougher rules change how teens use the internet?
It is just the beginning of 2026, and things are happening even faster than last year. Not only in technology, but also in regulations, laws, and in how we deal with all the information around us. As a person born in the 90s, social media was once an unknown land for me, a place that felt genuine in the beginning. It still had dangers, but it seemed less risky, or maybe our parents’ rules were stricter. I don’t want to go down the psychological path here, but I want to look at where we are heade
TechEx Global returns to London with enterprise technology and AI execution
London, TechEx Global 2026, one of Europe’s biggest enterprise technology conferences, brought thousands of technology professionals together at Olympia London on 4 and 5 February. The event went beyond buzzwords, focusing on how emerging technologies, especially AI, are being applied in real business contexts. TechEx Global combines several co-located expos, including AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud, IoT Tech, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Transformation. Over 200 expert sp
Elon Musk wants to lure investment bankers off Wall Street to train his AI. Here's what he's offering.
The remote positions are advertised as 8.5-hour work days, compared to the typically grueling investment banking hours.
Elon Musk Posts Cryptic Message: ‘Money Can’t Buy Happiness’
Musk, the richest man in the world wrote on X, the platform he owns that "money can't buy happiness," followed by a sad face emoji.
Elon Musk says money can't buy happiness. Research shows he's both right and wrong.
Elon Musk, the world's richest person, questions if money buys happiness. Studies suggest income boosts happiness, but with diminishing returns.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires Elon Musk's xAI, including social media platform X
Elon Musk's AI company xAI, which includes Elon Musk's social media platform X, has just been acquired by Elon Musk's space ...
How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface
A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developer’s machine — GitHub personal access tokens, AWS API keys, Azure service principals and more — are exfiltrated, and the adversary is inside the cloud environment within minutes.Your email security never saw it. Your dependency scanner might have flagged the package. Nobody was watching what happened n
Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools
The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.
Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity
During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and AI search together and hinted that although search is not yet monetized, "it's an enormous market and opportunity."
AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high
AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.
Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?
In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!
TTT-Discover optimizes GPU kernels 2x faster than human experts — by training during inference
Researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI have developed a new technique that can discover new solutions to very complex problems. For example, they managed to optimize a critical GPU kernel to run 2x faster than the previous state-of-the-art written by human experts.Their technique, called “Test-Time Training to Discover” (TTT-Discover), challenges the current paradigm of letting models “think longer” for reasoning problems. TTT-Discover allows the model to continue training during the
The Washington Post is retreating from Silicon Valley when it matters most
The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin.
a16z VC wants founders to stop stressing over insane ARR numbers
Andreessen Horowitz VC Jennifer Li, who oversees some of the firm's fastest-growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.
OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own
The new model is built to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.
Blurry Transitions
Turning 60 in December marked an important moment for me. A key section from that blog post was:“I’ve definitely shifted into a new mode over the past year. I’m still on a bunch of boards for Foundry and deeply involved in several companies. But I’m much less focused on the broader technology industry, uninterested in many of the things that are going on, and tired+bored of the arc the narrative about technology and society has taken.”Amy and I spent the last six weeks in New Zealand
One of Europe’s largest universities knocked offline for days after cyberattack
An alleged ransomware attack has taken down the systems of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers
We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.
NASA astronauts can now bring their phones with them on their mission to the moon
Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission -- which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s -- was delayed until March.
OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents
OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.