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AI voice agent deployments grew 340% last year. Phone calls didn’t die, but they just stopped needing a human to make it. Here’s what that shift actually looks like. The phone call has been declared dead so many times it’s almost a running joke. Email killed it. Then SMS killed it again. Then LinkedIn. Then Slack. And yet somehow, the phone call survived all of it- because nothing quite replicates what happens when two people actually speak. The tone. The pause. The moment someone says “actually, yeah, that’s exactly the problem we’re dealing with.” That quality of conversation has always…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Just last month, Apple, the last holdout in the personal computing market, was forced to hike prices of its computers and tablets within the range of 10 to 30%, depending on the type and model. The giant from Cupertino was able to wait out the AI-induced inflation thanks to its long-term contracts on memory chips and the TSMC manufacturing capacity it had booked for its Apple silicon processors well in advance. The fact that it has long enjoyed some of the highest margins in the industry must…

Two developments sit entirely outside the original six-theme forecast.AI infrastructure became a supply chain target in its own right. LiteLLM’s own security bulletin lays it out: a threat actor group tracked as TeamPCP compromised the CI/CD pipeline of the Trivy security scanner, which cascaded into maintainer credentials for LiteLLM itself, an AI gateway package used across a lot of agent frameworks and MCP servers. Two malicious package versions hit PyPI on March 24, 2026, and were pulled within roughly three hours. That’s fast, but not fast enough; the payload had already grabbed cloud credentials, SSH keys, and Kubernetes secrets[12].Edge network…

Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform has landed one of its first major games. Sega has confirmed that Virtua Fighter Crossroads will run on RTX Spark-powered laptops and compact desktop PCs when the game arrives in 2027. More Sega titles are also heading to the platform, although neither company has named them yet. The announcement also marks more than 30 years of collaboration between Nvidia and Sega, a relationship that began when Nvidia’s NV1 graphics chip helped bring the original Virtua Fighter to PC. Sega later helped keep the young chipmaker alive by turning a $5 million payment into an investment…

The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing. Google has to ship it in the next major release, Android 18, and by 1 August 2027 at the latest. That is one of two binding specification decisions adopted on 16 July under the Digital Markets Act, six months after the Commission opened proceedings on 27 January.…

Another thing people forget to do until the internet is already down? Download emergency phone apps. As of October 2025, FEMA has an app. Your local municipal or state government likely also has opt-in emergency push notifications. Consider opting in. WIRED has also cataloged a number of other personal safety apps, including a subscription service called Rescu that can connect you directly to first responders.For wildfires, University of Oregon wildfire expert Stasiewicz strongly recommends that you download independent wildfire awareness app Watch Duty, which offers up-to-date information on wildfires all over the country and became an important lifeline especially during…

(Image via Shaped) Live-shopping unicorn Whatnot is expanding its AI capabilities with the acquisition of Shaped, a startup that builds real-time recommendation and search technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shaped founder and CEO Tullie Murrell will join Whatnot to lead a new applied AI research team focused on improving how buyers discover live streams, sellers and products across the marketplace. Before co-founding Shaped in 2021, Murrell worked on machine learning and recommendation systems at Meta. Backed by Seattle venture firm Madrona, Shaped developed AI technology designed to deliver highly personalized recommendations in real time — a…

Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, is an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren’t yet the do-it-all assistants you’d want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience. The challenge is that it’s labor-intensive and time-consuming to physically teach these machines so many actions across different settings. “One natural idea is to use simulation as a training ground. While there has been significant progress over the last few years in the physics engines that power robotics simulators, one of the remaining challenges has been creating…

Google LLC said today it’s letting users link some of their favorite, most often-used applications with AI Mode, its conversational search tool powered by artificial intelligence, initially supporting Canva, Instacart and YouTube. The update, announced in a brief blog post by Google, marks a significant expansion of AI Mode, which now does much more than just answering questions. With these app integrations, AI Mode now can complete some basic tasks for users. The company seems to be hoping that this will be enough to persuade more people to start using AI mode for things such as shopping and planning. It…

The staff member allegedly made over $100,000 on Kalshi. John Moore/Getty Images Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator, has been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered he bet on dozens of the President’s speeches on Kalshi, ABC News reports. Officials from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the body that currently oversees betting platforms like Kalshi, are reportedly willing to settle with Perez if he returns his winnings. Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on the length of President Trump’s speeches, including the State of the Union address, a speech at the World…