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Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and chatbots competing for their attention — can easily fall into unhealthy relationships with digital platforms. But what if chatbots weren’t mere distractions from real life? Could they be designed humanely, as moral partners whose digital goal is to be a social guide rather than an addictive escape?At MIT, a friendship between two professors — one an anthropologist, the other a computer scientist — led to creation of an undergraduate class that set out to find the answer to those questions. Combining the two…
Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Your security stack is built on a model that was never designed to survive what’s coming.Seat licenses. Annual renewals. Feature tier upgrades. That’s the architecture of every major security vendor you rely on — your SIEM, your EDR, your GRC platform, your identity solution.It was a great model. It made vendors rich. It gave you predictability. And it is fundamentally changing. In this issue, we step back from cybersecurity to examine two forces transforming the software landscape. First, AGC’s private equity data shows that SaaS growth, valuation, and exit dynamics are slowing, challenging the traditional focus on short-term…
NASA is preparing to conduct its first spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) in nearly a year, ending an unusually long break for the activity. Truth be told, NASA had a spacewalk planned for early January but called it off after one of the two participating astronauts experienced a serious health issue that ultimately forced the early return to Earth of a SpaceX crew. The space agency is currently targeting March 18 for a spacewalk involving NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams. Coincidentally, the spacewalk is scheduled for the 61st anniversary of the first-ever spacewalk. The milestone was…
Elyena Lee’s personal journey into motherhood sparked the business idea When Elyena Lee, 34, had her first child during COVID-19 in early 2020, she struggled to find baby products that matched her personal style. Back then, she recalled, most options in Singapore leaned heavily toward “kiddish” aesthetics, and high-quality organic essentials from overseas often came at an extremely premium price point. Frustrated with the lack of accessible choices, she started her own baby brand with a university friend that same year: Soft Spot. Today, Soft Spot sells around 20,000 products annually—and interestingly, many of its products are also purchased by…
A large measles outbreak in South Carolina is finally showing signs of slowing down as the total number of cases in the state nears 1,000.For several weeks now, the state has experienced a downward trend in new infections, with approximately 10 cases being reported per week. At its peak in mid-January, the state was reporting around 200 new cases a week.The South Carolina outbreak is the largest measles outbreak in the US in more than 30 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has confirmed 1,281 measles cases across the country this year,…
Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing. Conversely, the steam engine was a practical breakthrough, but it took fundamental research in thermodynamics to fully harness its power. Today, artificial intelligence and science find themselves at a similar inflection point. The current AI revolution has been fueled by decades of research in the mathematical and physical sciences (MPS), which provided the challenging problems, datasets, and insights that made modern AI possible. The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, recognizing foundational AI…
From top left, clockwise: Makko CEO Jeremy Bird; Pipeshub CEO Rishabh Gupta; Flightline CEO Jesse Collins; AttorneyAide CEO Rohit Kundaji; and Liminary CEO Sarah Andrabi. Our latest Startup Radar spotlight features founders from the Seattle region using AI to help automate the assessment of medical records, video game production, and much more. Read on for brief descriptions of each company — along with pitch assessments from “Mean VC,” a GPT-powered critic offering a mix of encouragement and constructive feedback. Check out past Startup Radar posts here, and email tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies and startup news. AttorneyAide Rohit Kundaji. Founded: 2025 The business:…
Ravie LakshmananMar 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Browser Security Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers’ tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model itself to lower their security guardrails, Guardio said in a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication. “The AI now operates in real time, inside messy and dynamic pages, while continuously requesting information, making decisions,…
Observability is becoming the control system for the complex infrastructure powering modern digital services and AI workloads. As enterprises move from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment, the operational challenge of keeping those systems reliable is intensifying. Companies such as Virtana are focusing on observability platforms that can monitor entire environments rather than isolated components — particularly as organizations work with infrastructure partners such as Dell Technologies Inc. to build out AI factories, according to Paul Appleby (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Virtana, which provides observability software that helps enterprises monitor, optimize and manage complex hybrid cloud and AI…
Introduction The large‑language‑model (LLM) boom has shifted the bottleneck from training to efficient inference. By 2026, companies are running chatbots, code assistants and retrieval‑augmented search engines at scale, and a single model may answer millions of queries per day. Serving these models efficiently has become as critical as training them, yet the deployment landscape is fragmented. Frameworks like vLLM, TensorRT‑LLM running on Triton and Hugging Face’s Text Generation Inference (TGI) each promise different benefits. Meanwhile, Clarifai’s compute orchestration lets enterprises deploy, monitor and switch between these engines across cloud, on‑premise or edge environments. It examines technical bottlenecks such as the…