What Business Owners Thought AI Would Be, Why It Didn’t Work, And Why the Canonical Intelligence Layer (CIL) Changes Everything

For most business leaders, the AI story began with a simple expectation: “I want to ask my company a question and get a correct answer in seconds.” Not a document.Not a dashboard.Not a spreadsheet. An answer. What followed instead was one of the biggest expectation gaps in modern enterprise technology. Phase One: The AI Dream […]

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The Compound and Friends: It’s Not 1929, but It Might Be

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Jensen Huang discusses the economics of inference, power delivery, and more at CES 2026 press Q&A session — ‘You sell a chip one time, but when you build software, you maintain it forever’

When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at Nvidia’s CES 2026 keynote, the conversation stretched across Rubin, power delivery, inference economics, open models, and more. Following this, Tom’s Hardware had the opportunity to sit down and attend a press Q&A session with Huang himself in Las Vegas, Nevada. While we can’t share the transcript in its […]

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The Hype We Can Ignore (And the Risks We Can’t)

Jan 09, 2026The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn’t a lack of forecasts—it’s identifying which predictions reflect real, emerging risks and which can safely be ignored. An upcoming webinar […]

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New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System

Yves here. AI delivering “more better” surveillance is yet another disheartening prospect for use of this technology. However, New York City may not be alone in being at least a tad transparent about how it might go forward, given that it already has cameras widely deployed in its subways and busses. A reason for official […]

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The 10 eternally true steps to financial freedom

The principles of achieving financial freedom are timeless. Economies change, governments come and go, and your cable TV, The National Geographic, and Loaded magazine subscriptions give way for broadband, Netflix, and that meditation app that you’re always too busy to use. Yet while hairstyles wax and wane (I’m personally bringing back the bouffant for 2026) […]

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Tell us what you really, really… do not want to spend time working on

Developers are working smarter with AI: 84% currently incorporate or plan to incorporate AI into their development workflow according to this year’s Stack Overflow Developer Survey. We found that developers that were partially using AI in their workflow were mostly using it for writing code (59%), searching for answers (56%), learning new concepts (47%), or […]

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Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and […]

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Dear Hilton: Lose My Number

from the corporate-hypocrisy dept For those who wish to tell Hilton what they think of them, here is a model letter. Dear Hilton: I, as well as many of my friends and fellow citizens (as social media reflects), initially read with patriotic pride the news that a Hilton franchisee in Minnesota had refused service to […]

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