Category Archives: Business

For the past two years, I’ve written predictions for how AI will continue to change the media industry and the business of news in the coming year. Prognosticating is a risky business even at the most tranquil of times, and media’s AI era is anything but: bots are multiplying, newsrooms are shrinking, and new businessContinueContinue reading “5 predictions for AI’s growing role in the media in 2026”

“Season’s greetings” aren’t as cheery when it’s a season of layoffs. November marked the eighth time this year that job cuts were up over the same period the year before, according to research from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. To make matters worse, hiring in November was down 35% from 2024, marking the lowestContinueContinue reading “Fearing a layoff? Channel your inner doomsday prepper”

Entrepreneur and investor Kim Perell shared the advice on the latest episode of ‘Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.’ source https://www.entrepreneur.com/starting-a-business/serial-investor-says-this-is-a-major-red-flag-in-pitches/498642

It’s rare that your esoteric, impossible-to-pronounce, decade-long research project becomes a technology so crucial to national security that the President of the United States calls it out from the White House. But that’s exactly what happened to Dr. Eric Wengrowski, the CEO of Steg AI. Wengrowski spent nearly a decade of his life advancing steganography,ContinueContinue reading “This guy’s obscure PhD project is the only thing standing between humanity and AI image chaos”

Many Americans are likely to see massive changes to their taxes in 2026, especially seniors. That’s largely due to President Donald Trump’s so-called big, beautiful bill, a massive 940-page bill signed into law over the summer that includes an array of new tax write-offs but also fails to renew some previous deductions from the BidenContinueContinue reading “Social Security checks could get a big tax break in 2026 from a new ‘senior deduction.’ What you need to know”