January 2026

Author(s): Ahmed M. Abdelfattah Originally published on Towards AI. Why vendors promise 3–5 employee productivity but Forrester finds 0% improvement and what your data infrastructure needs before deployment works Google Cloud claims AI agents deliver productivity equivalent to hiring 3–5 employees. Forrester’s analysis shows 0% actual improvement. Vendor demos run on sanitized test data. Your production systems have 10+ years of fragmented data scattered across tools that don’t talk to each other.The article explores the disparity between vendors’ […]

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Mac power users waiting on new high-end MacBook Pro models may have been disappointed last fall, when Apple released an M5 upgrade for the low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro without touching the M4 Pro or Max versions of the laptop. But the wait for M5 Pro and M5 Max models may be nearing its end. The tea-leaf readers at MacRumors noticed that shipping times for a handful of high-end MacBook Pro configurations have slipped into mid-to-late February, rather than […]

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Author(s): Vivek Acharya Originally published on Towards AI. AI’s Next Strategic Phase: From Lab Curiosity to Core Economy Driver AI is undergoing a profound strategic shift. Not long ago, success in AI was measured by flashy model demos and incremental accuracy gains. Today, the focus has moved to something more durable and transformative: embedding AI deeply into the real economy, in ways that carry legal, financial, and operational weight. In sectors from healthcare to manufacturing, AI is no […]

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Elon Musk is going for some substantial damages in his lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its nonprofit mission and “making a fool out of him” as an early investor. On Friday, Musk filed a notice on remedies sought in the lawsuit, confirming that he’s seeking damages between $79 billion and $134 billion from OpenAI and its largest backer, co-defendant Microsoft. Musk hired an expert he has never used before, C. Paul Wazzan, who reached this estimate by concluding […]

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Author(s): Asjad Abrar Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding Retrieval Augmented Generation in The Easiest Way The landscape of artificial intelligence has witnessed remarkable transformations over the past few years, with large language models demonstrating unprecedented capabilities in natural language understanding and generation. However, these models face inherent limitations when it comes to accessing up-to-date information, domain-specific knowledge, or proprietary data like they are unable to fetch what’s happening currently. This is where Retrieval-Augmented Generation, commonly known as […]

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An unconfirmed report early this month suggested Asus was pulling back on its smartphone plans, but the company declined to comment at the time. Asus chairman Jonney Shih has now confirmed the wind-down of its smartphone business during an event in Taiwan. Instead, Asus will focus on AI products like robots and smart glasses. Shih addressed the company’s future plans during a 2026 kick-off event in Taiwan, as reported by Inside. “Asus will no longer add new mobile […]

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Author(s): Zoom In AI Originally published on Towards AI. Reality Labs is shrinking. Meta’s AI org has been rattled by a benchmark controversy. And a geopolitically sensitive AI-agent deal is now under regulatory scrutiny. The pivot is real. The question is whether it is working. The quick read If you only have a minute, here are the signals that matter: Reality Labs has posted tens of billions in operating losses since Meta’s metaverse push began, including $17.7B (2024) […]

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