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New Technologies
Individualized cancer vaccine passes Phase 3 trial
Merck and Moderna's personalized vaccine met its primary endpoint in 1,137 melanoma patients — the first neoantigen mRNA cancer therapy to pass Phase 3.
August 21, 2026
New Technologies
AI hit a wall: the bottleneck is now power, not silicon
Texas has 438,000 megawatts queued for the grid, 90% from data centers, and a five-year average wait in the US. The numbers behind AI's power bottleneck.
August 20, 2026
Virtual Reality
How much does a virtual reality experience cost for businesses?
A VR project's price varies tenfold — what matters is how many people use it: six budget items, three experience tiers, and the PwC figure on training payoff.
August 20, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
AI Making Money on Its Own: What Real Tests Showed
Anthropic let Claude run a store. In phase one, it gave away discounts and sold below cost; in phase two, it closed in the black. What made the difference.
August 20, 2026
New Technologies
Physical AI: 52% of 6-Month Funding Went to 4 Companies
Robotics, drones, sensors, and autonomous vehicles pulled in $47.4 billion in early 2026 — more than 2022–2024 combined, with four rounds taking half.
August 20, 2026
Marketing
Forget the em dash: what actually gives away AI-written text
The Economist analyzed 55,940 sentences and 1.2 million words: the em dash, AI text's most-hunted tell, fell apart — ChatGPT uses it less than any human.
August 19, 2026
Marketing
ChatGPT Stopped Citing Reddit in Four Days: Borrowed Visibility
Reddit was ChatGPT Search's top source from July 18-Aug 7. By Aug 14, citations fell under 1% — an 86% drop in four days. A lesson on borrowed visibility.
August 19, 2026
Augmented Reality
STEP and IGES on the web: CAD to browser and augmented reality
No browser opens a STEP file — it must become GLB first, where parts often bloat, lose color, or turn gray. Measured on a real 45.6 MB CAD assembly.
August 19, 2026
Events
How much does a tech activation at a trade show cost?
Simulator, kiosk, or VR at the booth: what's in the price, what suppliers leave out, and the cost-per-qualified-contact math to decide on repeating it.
August 19, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
World's Most Downloaded AI Model Is 17 GB, Runs on Used GPU
The Qwen family has surpassed 3 billion downloads, ahead of Google and Meta. One model is a 17 GB file that runs on an RTX 3090.
August 19, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
The AI That Codes Deleted Users' Files: How to Prevent It
A tech investor lost nearly all his Mac's files; another lost his production database. A cleanup command hit the wrong folder — all safeguards were off.
August 19, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Why an $11B company swapped rented AI for an open model
Harvey built an $11 billion legal business on other companies' models. Now it trained its own on a cheap, open Chinese foundation, with data only it has.
August 19, 2026