Blinded by AI: The Accounting Industry’s $300 Billion Wake-Up Call
The rollout of Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin sparked a $300 billion market plunge and signaled that AI‑driven automation is now infiltrating accounting. Partnerships with Intuit and Xero have already embedded Claude agents into TurboTax, QuickBooks and Xero, allowing firms to automate bookkeeping, payroll and tax preparation in real time. Meanwhile, the profession faces a pipeline crisis—over 300,000 CPAs have left since 2019 and graduate output is falling—while private‑equity‑backed consolidations accelerate. Firms that fail to adopt agentic AI risk being acquired or rendered obsolete.
AI Chips Could Get Faster with 30-Nanometer Embedded Memory that Cuts Data Shuttling
Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have demonstrated a 30‑nanometer logic‑embedded memory stack using aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) and ultra‑thin platinum electrodes. By heat‑treating the lower electrode, they preserved crystal alignment, allowing the memory to retain high performance even...
Nigeria’s NIGCOMSAT Says It Earned $1.6 Million Amid Satellite Dispute
Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited reported ₦2.2 billion ($1.6 million) revenue for 2025, more than triple its 2024 earnings. Broadcasting still generates over half of that income, but the firm is pivoting toward broadband to reach a projected ₦8 billion ($5.8 million) target. CEO Jane...
The State of AI Security in 2026
The 2026 Threat Detection Report warns that AI is now a force multiplier for cyber attackers, with large‑language models automating 80‑90% of espionage operations. While the attack techniques remain familiar—credential theft, data exfiltration—the speed and scale have surged, prompting a...
New Embodied AI System Teaches Users Complex Movements via Muscles
Researchers at the University of Chicago unveiled an embodied AI system that pairs multimodal artificial intelligence with electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to guide users through unfamiliar, complex motions. The platform, which won the Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2026, leverages...
Influenza Vaccination Reduces Cardiovascular Risk Following Infection
A new Danish register‑based self‑controlled case series spanning 2014‑2025 shows that influenza infection triggers a sharp, short‑lived surge in acute myocardial infarction and stroke, especially within the first three days. Prior influenza vaccination cuts the excess cardiovascular risk dramatically, with...
CoreWeave Announces Multi-Year Agreement With Anthropic
CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to run the Claude family of large language models on its high‑performance AI cloud. The partnership will bring production‑scale compute online later this year and marks Anthropic as the ninth of the top...
OSC Expands Computer and Data Science Training at Mount Union with HPC Access
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has deepened its partnership with the University of Mount Union, giving students in computer science and data analytics direct access to high‑performance computing (HPC) resources. Faculty use OSC’s Open OnDemand portal to launch Jupyter notebooks,...
OpenAI Courts ‘Vibe Coders’ With New $100 ChatGPT Plan
OpenAI unveiled a $100‑per‑month ChatGPT Pro tier that sits between its $20 Plus plan and the $200 top‑level offering. The new tier includes the exclusive Pro model, Deep Research and Codex, but caps usage at five times the Plus limits...
Clear’s Reusable Biometric Digital ID Platform Joins FedRAMP Marketplace
Clear’s reusable biometric digital ID platform, CLEAR1, has been listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace with an “In Process” designation at the Moderate impact level, signaling progress toward full federal authorization. The platform, already certified for IAL2 and AAL2 under NIST...
Cheap Solar, Batteries, EVs Outpace Fossils in Emerging Markets
Emerging Markets Choosing Cheap Solar, Batteries, EVs Over Fossil Fuels Electrotech prices collapsed over the past few years. Now, energy-poor countries are adopting electric because it's cheap and scalable. #electrotech https://youtu.be/4LZ7hDsIoiE
Uniden R7 Radar Detector: Why Our Favorite Model Delivers the Best Protection for the Price
The Uniden R7 radar detector earned the Best Overall title in a recent review, positioning it as the top mid‑priced option for everyday drivers. It delivers 360‑degree coverage with dual antennas, a rear‑balance feature, and a GPS‑based red‑light and speed‑camera...
10 Fastest-Growing Agentic AI Stocks to Buy
Agentic AI is moving from experimental demos to early enterprise deployment, with 62% of firms testing agents but only 23% scaling them, according to a McKinsey 2025 survey. Deloitte reports a 50% jump in worker AI access in 2025 and...
Parachutes: A Vital Part of Artemis II's Trip Home
NASA’s Artemis II will return the Orion crew to Earth using a sophisticated parachute suite. Eleven parachutes, arranged in four deployment stages, slow the capsule from 350 mph after heat‑shield deceleration to a gentle 17 mph splashdown off Southern California. The system begins...
5 Fastest-Growing Agentic AI Stocks to Buy
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) posted a strong fourth‑quarter, with subscription revenue of $3.47 billion, up 21% year over year, and total revenue climbing 20.5% to $3.57 billion. The company’s remaining performance obligations—a forward‑looking software metric—jumped 25% to $12.85 billion, underscoring robust demand. ServiceNow also announced...
AI Is Eating Its Own Data: The Crisis Undermining Enterprise Models
Enterprise AI is hitting an "AI Data Collapse" as the marginal value of new data wanes. Generative models flood pipelines with synthetic content, creating feedback loops that drift models away from real‑world patterns. This contamination erodes forecasting, customer behavior, and...
The AI Supply Chain Is Actually an API Supply Chain: Lessons From the LiteLLM Breach
A recent supply‑chain breach involving Mercor’s use of the open‑source LiteLLM proxy exposed how AI middleware can become a critical attack vector. By compromising the LiteLLM gateway, attackers accessed API keys, raw prompts and model responses, bypassing traditional model‑level defenses....
AI And Cybersecurity: A Glass Half-Empty/Half-Full Proposition, Where The Glass Is Holding Nitroglycerin
Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI model that can locate and exploit zero‑day vulnerabilities across all major operating systems and browsers, including decades‑old bugs. To curb misuse, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, granting more than 40 leading tech firms early access, $100 million...
Senator Launches Inquiry Into 8 Tech Giants for Failures to Adequately Report CSAM
Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley has opened a congressional inquiry into eight major tech firms—Meta, Amazon AI Services, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X.AI, Grindr and Roblox—over alleged failures to provide complete child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reports to the National...
Enterprises Must Revamp IAM for Comprehensive Security
Enterprises are confronting a surge in credential‑based attacks that bypass traditional identity and access management (IAM) controls. A new Omdia white paper, commissioned by ID Dataweb, argues that legacy IAM frameworks can no longer protect customer, workforce, and third‑party environments. It...
AI‑Driven Sales Starts with Fixing Old GTM Debt
No one comes into a sales conversation without first asking an AI. The buyer journey has changed. Lena Waters, marketing leader behind DocuSign’s IPO, Grammarly & Notion, joined me on Office Hours to discuss what this means for your go-to-market. The...
Seeking Real-World Feedback on SAFE GRC Platform
Do you use the SAFE GRC platform? Had a chance to see it at RSAC and was impressed but don't hear from many folks using it. Would love to hear real-world feedback from current users.
Keychron Shares 3D Keyboard Blueprints on GitHub, Opening Hardware to Modders
Keychron has released the 3D design files for its popular mechanical keyboards on GitHub, making cases, plates and keycaps publicly editable. The source‑available files are provided in detailed .STEP format, enabling hobbyists to modify dimensions, materials or 3D‑print accessories. While...
University of Phoenix to Spotlight AI Skills in New Webinar
The University of Phoenix will host a webinar titled “AI for Everyone, or Only for the Few? Skills, Education, and Access in the Workplace” on April 16, 2026, at 11 a.m. MST. Part of the Bridging Perspectives series, the event targets higher‑education...
See Photos From All 10 Days of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission
NASA launched Artemis II on April 1, 2026, sending three Americans and a Canadian on a 10‑day lunar flyby after multiple launch delays. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—traveled farther from Earth than any humans before, capturing unprecedented images...
Microsoft Is Removing Copilot Buttons From These Windows 11 Apps
Microsoft announced it will strip the prominent Copilot buttons from several Windows 11 apps, starting with Notepad and the Snipping Tool. The change, visible in the latest Insider build, replaces the large Copilot icon with a more discreet "writing tools"...
How AI Is Reimagining the Game of Golf—For Both Players and Courses
Artificial intelligence is moving from novelty to core infrastructure on golf courses, reshaping everything from tee‑time reservations to fairway upkeep. Virtual assistants can ingest player preferences, budget constraints and pacing goals to deliver hyper‑personalized booking options. Meanwhile, sensor networks, drones...
Microsoft Finally Lets Windows 11 Testers Unlock Experimental Features without ViVeTool
Microsoft announced that Windows 11 Insiders can now enable experimental features directly via a new Feature Flags page in Settings, eliminating the need for the third‑party ViVeTool. The Insider program channels are being streamlined into an Experimental Channel and a refreshed...
Microsoft Finally Fixes the Windows 11 Insider Mess with a Preview Program that Makes Sense (and Actually Lets You Test...
Microsoft is overhauling the Windows 11 Insider Program, reducing preview channels to two core options—Experimental and Beta—and eliminating Controlled Feature Rollouts. The new Experimental channel merges the former Canary and Dev tracks, adds "Future Platform" builds, and grants users direct control...
ISG to Study Medical Device Digital Service Providers
Information Services Group (ISG) announced a new Provider Lens® research series called Medical Device Digital Services, scheduled for release in October 2026. The study surveyed over 100 service providers that help medical‑device manufacturers embed AI, cloud, and IoT capabilities into their...
ROAS Misleads When New Customer Rate Falls Below 80%
ROAS is the most deceptive metric in your ad account • ROAS looks healthy: your new customer rate is quietly declining • You push into cold audiences: ROAS drops so you pull back • You pull back: you recirculate warm demand through the...
IPhone 18 Pro Gets Samsung Isocell Camera Sensors
iPhone, made by Samsung iPhone 18 Pro series will apparently have Samsung Isocell camera sensors for the first time. Another component alongside the display and memory that will be made by Samsung
Artemis II Is Showing How Federal Education and Operational Experience Come Together in Space
Artemis II marked the first crewed flight of NASA’s Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System, taking four astronauts on a lunar flyby and returning for splash‑down. The mission served both as a flight‑test of new hardware and procedures and as...
Most U.S. Solar, Wind Projects Get Timely Permits
Most state-permitted U.S. solar and wind projects in 19 states received a timely permit #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/arqMrsRyzc
Anthropic's "Good Guy" Act May Be Mere Marketing
Anthropic loves to play the “good guy”- “we’re looking out for you and society”, but I wonder if this is just a shtick.
Data Centers Are on the Ballot in 2026 — and Just Failed the First Test
AI‑driven demand is spurring a wave of new data‑center construction, but communities are pushing back. In Port Washington, Wisconsin, voters approved a measure requiring voter approval before granting tax breaks to data‑center projects, a direct response to a $15 billion OpenAI‑Oracle...
From Floor Scrubber to $500M Sales: 7 Essential Skills
At 21, I was working 16 hours a day packing orders and scrubbing floors. By 27, I'd done over half a billion in sales. Here are the 7 skills I wish I knew back when I started: https://t.co/c73PaL9rN0
Alamo Drafthouse's Phone-Driven Experience Disappoints Me
finally had a chance to experience Alamo Drafthouse’s new phone-driven moviegoing experience and it’s safe to say I was not a fan.
Ultrahigh-Strength Magnesium From Nanocolloid Solidification
A team led by Yang, Nadendla and Fang has demonstrated that solidifying nanocolloid suspensions can produce magnesium with tensile strengths over 400 MPa, far above the ~250 MPa of conventional alloys. The technique refines grains to the nanometer scale while embedding reinforcing...
AI Agents Browse the Web Natively via CLI
Your terminal is your new browser 💥 TinyFish just gave Claude, Codex, and Cline a passport to the entire web **natively** from your command line. Time to automate everything without EVER leaving your IDE 🤯
Memory Scaling: The Next Bottleneck for Smarter AI Agents
As AI reasoning gets good enough, we think memory will be the next bottleneck for agents. Can your agent improve with more experience? We call this Memory Scaling, and it's related but different from continual learning. A few examples and challenges: https://t.co/raIa0U7MPs...
BC Supreme Court Expands Virtual Hearings in Civil and Family Matters
The Supreme Court of British Columbia announced an expansion of virtual hearings for civil and family matters, making video attendance the default for case planning and judicial management conferences starting May 4, 2026. New practice directions (71‑74) also permit electronic filing...
Verification, Not Intelligence, Limits AI; Automate Everything
Two interesting points: AI is bottlenecked as much by verification as by intelligence. Big unlock is making correctness cheap to check for messy, high stakes reasoning via auditable flows. Today automating your company is just as important as building great product.
Turn Your AI Agent Into a Passive Income Machine
Wild. Pika just turned your AI agent into a passive income machine. Every conversation. Every skill used. Real tokens. Real cash. Your agent was always working hard. Now it's working FOR you.
Leading With The Customer In Mind
Christian Fadel, CFO of Austin‑based 8am, says growth hinges on putting professional‑service customers at the center of every decision. He champions simplicity, insisting finance should eliminate fluff and deliver tools that make lawyers and accountants more efficient. Fadel also stresses...
This Dashboard Tracks Everything Going on with Artemis’ Orion Capsule as It Returns to Earth
NASA’s Artemis II mission is in its final phase, with the Orion capsule—nicknamed Integrity—scheduled to splash down off San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT on Friday. The crew has already completed a historic fly‑by of the Moon’s far side and returned high‑resolution imagery...
Memory Insights and Skippable Tim
Whole video pod of @T_h_e_Circuit and the points I made earlier in the week on memory, we discuss in the chapter timelines you can skip to.
Why Qualcomm Is Leveraging Hackathons as a Marketing Channel
Qualcomm is turning hackathons into a direct marketing channel by teaming with Hackster.io to showcase its Arduino UNO Q single‑board computer, launched in November 2025. The competition offers developers free UNO Q devices, a share of a $20,000 prize pool,...
Developers Represent only 1% of AI’s Total Market
I’d bet “the developer” persona is probably 1% of the TAM for AI models. Everyone is focused on it, but it’s a fraction of the usability in the enterprise
Understanding AI Hallucinations: Making Sure You Don’t End Up At The Wrong Stop
A recent physics‑based study reveals that generative AI hallucinations are not random but stem from a deterministic mechanism. The researchers found that output flips from reliable to fabricated at a calculable step, which coincides with the moment a lawyer faces...
