Big Tech’s $660B AI Capex Wave: Investors Demand Faster ROI and Measurable Payback

Big Tech’s $660B AI Bet — Why Investors Want Faster ROI TL;DR Big Tech plans roughly $660 billion in AI-related capital expenditures (capex) this year; investors responded by wiping about $900 billion from market value across major firms. Spending aims to buy AI infrastructure—data centers, chips, models—but markets now demand nearer-term revenue, not just scale. […]

How ZDNET Tests Headphones in 2026 — Real‑World Trials, Not Just Lab Charts

How ZDNET Tests Headphones in 2026: Real‑World Runs, Not Just Lab Charts Headphone lab charts matter — but they don’t tell you how a pair behaves on a cross‑country flight or during a sweaty run. ZDNET’s headphone testing pairs objective measurement with weeks of everyday use to answer that practical question: how will this gear […]

Claude Opus 4.6: 1M-Token Agentic AI Unlocking Enterprise Automation & Long-Context Workflows

Claude Opus 4.6: Building Agentic AI with a 1M‑Token Memory TL;DR — Key takeaways What it is: Claude Opus 4.6 (model ID: claude-opus-4-6) is Anthropic’s push toward agentic AI and long‑horizon automation with beta support for a 1,000,000‑token context and up to 128,000 output tokens. What’s new: a massive context window, four configurable effort levels, […]

Claude Opus 4.6: 1M‑Token Context and AI Agents Transform Enterprise Workflows

Claude Opus 4.6: How new AI agents and a 1M‑token context change AI for business TL;DR: Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 pushes LLMs toward autonomous, end‑to‑end work on high‑value enterprise tasks. Key advances: stronger agentic planning (parallel subagents), a beta 1M‑token long‑context window, and productivity integrations like PowerPoint that respect templates. Early vendor tests report measurable […]

GPT-5.3-Codex: Agentic AI for Long-Running Dev Workflows – Pilot Plan for CTOs

GPT-5.3-Codex: When code assistants become long-running AI agents TL;DR: GPT-5.3-Codex is a faster, more agentic Codex release from OpenAI that can run extended, multi-step software workflows—think triaging failing tests overnight, proposing patches, and opening PRs automatically. It’s reported to be ~25% faster than prior Codex versions and was even used by OpenAI to help debug […]

Best Business Messaging Apps of 2026: AI Features, Pricing and Top Picks for Teams

The best business messaging apps of 2026: AI features, pricing, and picks for teams TL;DR Slack — Best for integration-heavy teams and neutral ecosystems; excels at AI-powered summaries and workflow automation. (Estimate: paid tiers from ~$8.75/user/month — verify with vendor.) Microsoft Teams — Best for organizations committed to Microsoft 365; strong compliance, meetings, and single-vendor […]

Local AI Agents: Qwen3-coder, Ollama & Goose — Cut Cloud Costs, Keep Code In-House

Local agentic coding: replace cloud coding agents with Qwen3‑coder, Ollama and Goose TL;DR: For teams wrestling with recurring cloud bills, IP exposure or compliance rules, a practical local agentic coding stack exists today: Qwen3‑coder (a downloadable coding LLM), Ollama (a local LLM runtime), and Goose (an orchestration agent). It trades subscription and data egress for […]

VIBETENSOR: LLM Agents Built a CUDA-First Deep-Learning Runtime — Kernel Gains, System Tradeoffs

VIBETENSOR: How LLM Agents Built a CUDA‑First Deep Learning Runtime TL;DR: VIBETENSOR is an open-source, CUDA‑first deep‑learning runtime where LLM‑powered coding agents wrote most of the implementation under human high‑level direction. It demonstrates that agents can assemble a multi‑language runtime and validate it with automated tests, but kernel‑level speedups (≈5–6× in microbenchmarks) did not translate […]

Gemini LLM’s Bullish Crypto Scenarios: AI for Finance Playbook for Executives

AI for Finance: What Gemini’s Crypto Price Scenarios Mean for Executives Executive summary: Google’s Gemini LLM was prompted to sketch bullish price scenarios for XRP, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL). Under an optimistic path—sustained bull market, ETF inflows and clearer U.S. rules (notably the proposed CLARITY bill)—Gemini produced high‑end targets (XRP ≈ $8, ETH breaking […]