Greenlight Family Hub (2026): Finally, a Digital Wall Calendar With a Voice Assistant
After testing multiple models, I’m convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight’s Family Hub shows why.
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The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How far can we push computing? On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” There is no physical…
Three things you should know about permafrost
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing, that it’s important in the global puzzle of climate change … and that’s about the extent of it. The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple just published two…
Making the case for context-aware AI
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As companies look to move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge ahead…
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says
The investment will provide a much needed financial boost as the company seeks to cut costs and lift its stock price.
Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise’s breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements
Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.
Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group
Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group appeared first on CyberScoop.