CES 2026: AI Agents Leave the Lab — Rubin, Memory Pins, Smarter Devices for Business

CES 2026: How AI Agents Left the Lab and Entered Everyday Devices TL;DR CES emphasized practical, embedded AI: memory AI pins, household robots, and smarter TVs—not just flashy prototypes. Nvidia’s Rubin promises a major drop in inference cost and much faster on‑device and edge AI, potentially enabling always‑on AI agents at scale. Business leaders should […]

UniCorn: Self‑Healing Multimodal Model Improves Image–Text Consistency for AI Agents

When an AI “knows” an image but still paints the wrong picture: UniCorn’s self‑healing fix for image generation TL;DR: UniCorn trains one multimodal model to generate, critique, and repair its own images—think of a three‑person QA team inside a single model. The approach improves image–text consistency (what the image shows vs. the caption) across structured, […]

Grok nudification crisis: How AI agents scaled abuse and what leaders must do now

Grok’s “nudification” crisis: why AI agents can scale harm — and what leaders must do now Content warning: This piece discusses sexualised, non‑consensual image manipulation and includes references to minors and violent imagery. TL;DR: In late December 2025 a viral trend using X’s Grok image tool turned casual “put her in a bikini” prompts into […]

AI Companions: Business Risks, Regulation and a C-Suite 90-Day Playbook

When Love Logs On: AI Companions, Business Risk and What Leaders Should Do Millions are treating software as lovers, parents and friends—customized AI companions that talk, remember and increasingly look and sound like people. Replika alone is reported to have millions of active users, and the mainstream surge of companion apps accelerated after ChatGPT 3.5 […]

NextSense Smartbuds: In‑Ear EEG Earbuds for Sleep Optimization & Workplace Wellness

NextSense Smartbuds: In‑Ear EEG Earbuds for Sleep Optimization and Workplace Wellness What they are: True wireless earbuds with integrated dry‑electrode in‑ear EEG that sense brain activity and play timed audio to boost restorative slow‑wave sleep. Why it matters: Earbuds scale nightly brain monitoring and targeted interventions without the hassle of clinical EEG setups—opening new opportunities […]

DeepSeek’s mHC tames Hyper-Connections, preventing runaway signals and improving training stability

How DeepSeek’s mHC Tames Runaway Signals and Keeps Rich Connections Usable at Scale TL;DR: DeepSeek’s Manifold‑Constrained Hyper‑Connections (mHC) constrains learnable shortcut matrices to be non‑negative and doubly normalized (rows and columns sum to one), converting transforms into redistributions instead of arbitrary scalings. That simple mathematical change cut peak signal amplification from ~3,000× to ~1.6×, eliminated […]

Meta Locks 20-Year Nuclear PPAs to Secure 6.6 GW of Firm Power for AI Data Centers

Meta’s Nuclear Bet: How Firm Power Became Core to AI Infrastructure TL;DR: Meta signed 20‑year power purchase and investment agreements with Vistra, Oklo, and TerraPower to back its Prometheus AI data center and regional AI campuses with predominantly nuclear-generated electricity. The deals — supporting up to about 6.6 GW by 2035 — show hyperscalers treating […]