VCs predict strong enterprise AI adoption next year — again
More than 20 venture capitalists share their thoughts on AI agents, enterprise AI budgets and more for 2026.
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From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt?
The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From […]
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Alibaba Tongyi Lab Releases MAI-UI: A Foundation GUI Agent Family that Surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro, Seed1.8 and UI-Tars-2 on AndroidWorld
Alibaba Tongyi Lab have released MAI-UI—a family of foundation GUI agents. It natively integrates MCP tool use, agent user interaction, device–cloud collaboration, and online RL, establishing state-of-the-art results in general GUI grounding and mobile GUI navigation, surpassing Gemini-2.5-Pro, Seed1.8, and UI-Tars-2 on AndroidWorld. The system targets three specific gaps that early GUI agents often ignore, native agent user interaction, MCP tool integration, and a device cloud collaboration architecture that keeps privacy sensitive work on device while still using […]
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Where Speed Meets Strategy
An HBR Executive exclusive Q&A with Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing.
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The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at their source—the Patent Office itself. If these rules take effect, they will hand patent trolls exactly what they’ve been chasing for years: a way to keep bad patents alive and out of reach. People targeted with troll lawsuits will be left with almost no realistic or affordable way to defend themselves. We need EFF […]
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CA Fires Spotlight Licensing Carriers for Inmates
California’s recent wildfires were fought by over 780 inmate firefighters who received rigorous taxpayer-funded training. But until recent reforms, many of these trained firefighters faced insurmountable barriers to employment after release—state licensing laws blocked them from the very careers they’d prepared for. lead , Cato scholar Stephen Slivinski examines this issue in a new Washington Post opinion piece, revealing how occupational licensing laws create employment barriers for 70 million Americans with criminal records. The evidence is clear: employment is […]
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Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull: Scholar, Teacher, Friend
The Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull, long-time friend of the Acton Institute, sadly died on November 26, not long after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Many friends, colleagues, and collaborators joined a Whatsapp group to pray for Richard and his family in his final weeks, and the affection and admiration that so many people had for him was clearly expressed over those weeks. Continue Reading…
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When Supply Chains Become Autonomous
A new simulation demonstrates how these might work—and how leadership will need to change to succeed with them.
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Open-source AI crushes elite math exam
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Remember when AI couldn’t handle basic arithmetic? Now, a small open-source model is crushing one of the world’s hardest math exams. After achieving top scores in the Putnam Contest, Nous Research’s Nomos-1 joins a long list of AI-driven math advances this year that show the field may be about to move into a whole new territory of discovery. In today’s AI rundown: Nous […]
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Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green
Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment suggests Dazzle is poised for the coming wave of new AI-infused consumer businesses.
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