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Nothing's mystery AI-first device concept: monolith gadget with a keyhole

Nothing’s Stunning AI Device Teaser: No Screen, No App

Nothing has confirmed it will ship its first AI-native product in December, according to a post this week from CEO Carl Pei — and that is almost everything the company will say about it. The startup known for translucent smartphones has promised a tool with no new screen that, in Pei’s own words, couldn’t have […]

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OpenAI 2028 election megaphone and ballot box metaphor

OpenAI’s Stunning New Deal Pitch Reveals Its 2028 Play

OpenAI is spending political capital on a race two years away. In a sweeping essay on its Global Affairs blog, the company’s chief policy officer Chris Lehane declared 2028 “the AI election” and outlined a policy playbook aimed at voters who increasingly blame artificial intelligence for job anxiety, data-center sprawl and a tech consensus that […]

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Meta Conductor Acquisition: What Meta’s AI Coding Bet Means

On November 4, 2026, Meta confirmed it had acquired Conductor, the AI coding startup whose parallel-agent workspaces let developers spin up entire software projects in minutes. The Meta Conductor deal closes a stretch of aggressive moves by Meta’s Superintelligence Labs and raises a question every engineering leader should care about: what happens to a developer […]

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Uber AI agents booked only four rides in Q3 2026, shown as a tiny robot hand hailing a car

Uber AI Agents: A Shocking Look at Q3’s Four-Ride Reality

Uber AI agents made headlines this week for the smallest reason imaginable: only four of them actually bought a ride. During its third-quarter earnings call, Uber disclosed that third-party Uber AI agents arranged just four rides across the entire quarter, alongside roughly 500 Uber Eats orders during Halloween week. Against 320 million rides and deliveries, […]

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AI data center rollout election ballot box with lightning bolt illustration

AI Data Center Rollout: Stunning Democratic Wins Threaten the Outlook

Stunning Democratic victories from Texas to Georgia have put the AI data center rollout squarely on notice. Newly elected governors arrive this month with a shared promise: moratoriums, pauses and tougher rules for the energy-hungry facilities that power modern artificial intelligence. The results ended a four-year political shelter around what President Donald Trump calls “super […]

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