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AI Powers Around-the-Clock Healthcare Member Services
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Powers Around-the-Clock Healthcare Member Services

Next up - what AI can do in Healthcare - Ratnakar Lavu of @ElevanceHealth in a conversation with @IBM' @ArcindKrishna - Benefits, Member Services 24x7. #IBMThink https://t.co/yv4a1KSyio

By Holger Müller
AI's Energy Hunger Outpaces Searches, Threatens Power Grid
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI's Energy Hunger Outpaces Searches, Threatens Power Grid

A single ChatGPT query uses 10x the energy of a Google search (2.9Wh vs 0.3Wh). AI data centers will soon consume as much power as two-thirds of all American homes. This is why I keep saying: energy is the bottleneck....

By Peter H. Diamandis
Hybrid Cloud Demo Showcases AI, Sovereign Core Integration
SocialMay 5, 2026

Hybrid Cloud Demo Showcases AI, Sovereign Core Integration

And we are at the @RedHat part of @ArvindKrishna's demo - hybrid Cloud. For AI and for Sovereign Cloud (with SovereignCore). And @HashiCorp ... And now @confluentinc With @IBMwatsonx Data... #IBMThink https://t.co/icdWDpw5D4

By Holger Müller
Embedded AI Will Transform All Sectors, Not Just Healthcare
SocialMay 5, 2026

Embedded AI Will Transform All Sectors, Not Just Healthcare

This isn’t just healthcare. Education, banking, and daily decision-making will all be guided by an embedded AI layer that works alongside us. https://t.co/as0yqLleRs

By Brett King
Skepticism Grows Over Selling Spare Compute Capacity in RAN
SocialMay 5, 2026

Skepticism Grows Over Selling Spare Compute Capacity in RAN

Listening to panel on #AIRAN with @SoftBank @Northeastern @deepsignl & @MobileExperts1 Really not convinced by some of the narrative about selling “spare compute capacity” in the RAN Unclear how it’s sold, exposed, managed, interconnected, secured etc My own panel is next...

By Dean Bubley
Governance Gaps Amplify Risk; Enforce Ownership, Access, Monitoring
SocialMay 5, 2026

Governance Gaps Amplify Risk; Enforce Ownership, Access, Monitoring

Digital infrastructure operates as a single layer across operations, where gaps in governance accumulate risk. Clear ownership, controlled access and real-time monitoring must become daily disciplines, since failures propagate across providers and teams. Microblog @antgrasso https://t.co/hplDKIGUOd

By Antonio Grasso
Sell Solutions, Not Services: Pitch What They Need
SocialMay 5, 2026

Sell Solutions, Not Services: Pitch What They Need

One of my students sent 33 pitches one week and got 0 replies. Why? I asked to see some examples and spotted the problem immediately. All of them were offering the same thing: a $1,000 marketing audit. I asked him if he...

By Dan Mall
Tax‑authority Phishing Spreads ValleyRAT and New ABCDoor Backdoor
SocialMay 5, 2026

Tax‑authority Phishing Spreads ValleyRAT and New ABCDoor Backdoor

Phishing "from the tax authorities" → a modified downloader → the well-known ValleyRAT backdoor + the previously undocumented Python backdoor, ABCDoor. Learn more: https://t.co/8mFxmep5xC https://t.co/9yUZwdH8mO

By Eugene Kaspersky
Google's Ad Revenue Hits $300 B After One Year
SocialMay 5, 2026

Google's Ad Revenue Hits $300 B After One Year

Approaching a full year, I wonder how this is coming along… Google now at $300 billion of ads market.

By Jason Kint
Show the Why, Not Just Dev
SocialMay 5, 2026

Show the Why, Not Just Dev

Most people walk into DevOps interviews listing tools. That’s not what gets you hired. You need to understand how everything connects—CI/CD → containers → IaC → monitoring → SRE. If you can explain the why behind each piece, you stand out immediately. This cheatsheet...

By AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
AI Now Gives Raw Mental‑State Check‑Ins, Not Just Replies
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Now Gives Raw Mental‑State Check‑Ins, Not Just Replies

Pause. When AI casually tells you “go to sleep” instead of feeding your overthinking… that hits different 😵‍💫 We’re moving past smart replies into AI that actually understands your mental state This one, built with @heyglif’s shaky iPhone style, feels raw and real like a...

By Naveed Ullah
Microsoft Pivots to Hybrid Seat‑plus‑consumption Pricing Model
SocialMay 5, 2026

Microsoft Pivots to Hybrid Seat‑plus‑consumption Pricing Model

Microsoft's earnings call just summed up what's happening with seat-based pricing 👀 Satya Nadella said seat licenses are "just entitlement to some consumption" meant to give customers a sense of budget predictability. Said differently, seats aren't dead. But they’re now...

By Kyle Poyar
Share Datasets on Hugging Face to Unlock Collective Insights
SocialMay 5, 2026

Share Datasets on Hugging Face to Unlock Collective Insights

By sharing datasets on @huggingface, you help agents being able to analyze them, giving everyone the ability to make sense of complex data. For example, this is some of the insights I uncovered from @jamiequint's fascinating data: https://t.co/PW4GH7Uxna What other...

By Clément Delangue
Blaming AI for Layoffs Fuels Bottom‑tier Resentment
SocialMay 5, 2026

Blaming AI for Layoffs Fuels Bottom‑tier Resentment

The more companies attribute layoffs to AI, the more they remind those at the bottom why they should hate AI...

By Peter Atwater
Oracle Brings AI and Cloud Expertise to Poland's Healthcare
SocialMay 5, 2026

Oracle Brings AI and Cloud Expertise to Poland's Healthcare

Loved spending a couple days in Poland last week, where I had the privilege of meeting with Tomasz Maciejewski, @USAmbPoland Tom Rose, Hon. Stuart Andrew MP, and other leaders working to advance Poland’s healthcare ecosystem. We at @Oracle are keen to share our...

By Seema Verma
AWS Nitro Isolates Resources, Blocking Copy‑Fail Exploit
SocialMay 5, 2026

AWS Nitro Isolates Resources, Blocking Copy‑Fail Exploit

If you were wondering if this affects AWS VMs ~ per Google aimode and AWS documentation: The AWS Nitro System mitigates the Copy Fail vulnerability through architectural isolation, specifically by pinning dedicated physical resources and eliminating shared Dom0 kernel components. AWS...

By Teri Radichel
AI Spending Soars, Yet Meaningful Results Remain Elusive
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Spending Soars, Yet Meaningful Results Remain Elusive

Interesting AI statistics being shared by @IBM during #IBMThink Lots of spending but we have a long way to go to get to meaningful results https://t.co/qxVwu8bHb7

By Maribel Lopez
AI Becomes IBM’s Core Model, Saving $4.5B
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Becomes IBM’s Core Model, Saving $4.5B

AI isn’t just helping your business, it is your business model, says @IBM CEO @ArvindKrishna during #Think2026 keynote. IBM will save $4.5 billion using AI (annualized), he added. #Think #FitForPurpose https://t.co/7F0wqGVNOY

By Sarbjeet Johal
AI‑driven Layoffs: Real Productivity Boost or Convenient Excuse?
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI‑driven Layoffs: Real Productivity Boost or Convenient Excuse?

Coinbase is the latest tech company—including Block, and Salesforce—to announce big layoffs and cite AI coding productivity as a driver. I've attached those companies' recent stock performance bc I think it is ... relevant. But a few things can be true at...

By Derek Thompson
AI Boosts Productivity, Cuts Costs, Saves IBM $4B
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Boosts Productivity, Cuts Costs, Saves IBM $4B

It's all about the return of AI says @ArvindKrishna 70% great productivity 74% faster cycle times 67% faster project delivery ... And @IBM saved 4B+ from the use of AI. #IBMThink https://t.co/9tz52tzrma

By Holger Müller
IBM CEO Says Tech Stack Must Evolve for AI
SocialMay 5, 2026

IBM CEO Says Tech Stack Must Evolve for AI

And we are off with @IBM CEO @ArvindKrishna - it's about more than AI. The stack needs to change. There are winners and those who are not quite ready to embrace AI. #IBMThink https://t.co/K3QZCAZFp4

By Holger Müller
Predict Virality, Then Reverse‑engineer Your Post
SocialMay 5, 2026

Predict Virality, Then Reverse‑engineer Your Post

btw this is my dumbest prompt but its actually so effective for cooking viral content: "fast forward 1 week. this post just crossed 1M views. why did it go viral?" it'll tell you what worked (the hook/structural beat/lines that got shared, etc) then...

By itsolelehmann
Tech Disruption Varies by Specialty: Task Type Matters
SocialMay 5, 2026

Tech Disruption Varies by Specialty: Task Type Matters

An analysis of what impact digital technologies could have on the top 20 medical specialties, based on how repetitive vs creative and interaction-based vs data-based tasks those specialties entail. This and many more inforaphics and detailed analyses in our e-book: The...

By Bertalan Meskó, PhD
ChatGPT Shows Accurate Reddit Citations, Confirms Ahrefs
SocialMay 5, 2026

ChatGPT Shows Accurate Reddit Citations, Confirms Ahrefs

And here are Reddit citations in ChatGPT. I pinged ahrefs about this since it looked off to me... They said it's accurate based on looking into the data. Not sure, but worth noting based on what Lily shared below for...

By Glenn Gabe
Gen Z Now Makes up over Half of Pinterest Users
SocialMay 5, 2026

Gen Z Now Makes up over Half of Pinterest Users

While @Pinterest has long talked about Gen Z being its fastest growing demographic, what is NOT getting enough attention now is that Gen Z users represent over 50% of its 600 million monthly active users. $PINS aging down has meaningful...

By Rich Greenfield
Automate Honest SEO‑friendly
SocialMay 5, 2026

Automate Honest SEO‑friendly

I built a skill that creates competitor comparison and alternatives pages — "vs" pages, "alternative to" pages, feature matrices, and migration guides. You tell it your competitors and it builds SEO-targeted comparison content that positions you honestly, acknowledges competitor strengths, and...

By Corey Haines
AI Cambrian Explosion: 835 Startups in 25 Months
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Cambrian Explosion: 835 Startups in 25 Months

Y Combinator just launched 835 AI startups in a single batch—more AI companies in one cohort than existed in the entire world a decade ago. The Cambrian explosion took 25 million years. AI's is taking 25 months.

By Peter H. Diamandis
Genetic Variant Determines Individual GLP‑1 Drug Response
SocialMay 5, 2026

Genetic Variant Determines Individual GLP‑1 Drug Response

As a medical school professor, I get asked why GLP-1 drugs work miracles for some and barely budge for others. A new Nature paper from 23andMe gives part of the answer: your genes. Researchers ran a genome-wide association study in 27,885...

By Robert Lufkin, MD
Google Adds Real‑time Low‑light Boost to Messages Camera
SocialMay 5, 2026

Google Adds Real‑time Low‑light Boost to Messages Camera

Google is working to incorporate Low Light Boost for the Google Messages in-app camera preview The feature brightens the viewfinder in real time to aid framing in dimly lit scenarios ✅ Details - https://t.co/c4L8yFdABs https://t.co/CRkt1axCAI

By AssembleDebug (Shiv)
AI Surge Triples Books, Halves Overall Quality
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Surge Triples Books, Halves Overall Quality

If you want to read the study this is from https://www.nber.org/papers/w34777 Their conclusion: "The diffusion of LLMs from 2022 to 2025 tripled new book releases. While average book quality, measured by usage, declined, the surge in releases raised the number of...

By Lincoln Michel
World Rushes to Enforce ID, Threatening VPN Anonymity
SocialMay 5, 2026

World Rushes to Enforce ID, Threatening VPN Anonymity

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

By Matthew Green
Automated Social Media Machine Generates 37 Brand Assets
SocialMay 5, 2026

Automated Social Media Machine Generates 37 Brand Assets

Excited to share something I've been working hard on. Built a Social Media Machine to distribute and run your entire personal brand for you. 37 assets made from YOUR brand, voice, and systems It's the new marketing system for all our...

By Matt Gray
Gallium Needle Softens at Body Heat, Boosts Injection Safety
SocialMay 5, 2026

Gallium Needle Softens at Body Heat, Boosts Injection Safety

KAIST Develops Gallium Needle That Softens at Body Temperature for Safer Injections by @tweetciiiim #MedTech #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/g8iTdzNeF9

By Ron van Loon
Be Visible in AI Answers or Lose B2B Traffic
SocialMay 5, 2026

Be Visible in AI Answers or Lose B2B Traffic

AI is changing B2B marketing 👇 • Buyers start with AI • 60% of searches = zero-click • AI traffic growing 40%+ • Up to 50% web traffic at risk 🚀 New rule: be visible in AI answers If you’re not there, you’re invisible. Via Giuliano Liguori...

By Giuliano Liguori
Authenticity Beats Polish: Faster Posts Drive More Engagement
SocialMay 5, 2026

Authenticity Beats Polish: Faster Posts Drive More Engagement

Funny pattern I’ve noticed with my posts. The more time I spend on them, the worse they tend to do. I’ll tweak the wording, rework the structure, build a polished carousel, make sure everything sounds right… and then nothing. Low...

By Krista Mollion
Bose Launches Lifestyle Ultra Line, Embraces AirPlay over Its Own App
SocialMay 5, 2026

Bose Launches Lifestyle Ultra Line, Embraces AirPlay over Its Own App

Bose has announced the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker ($299), Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar ($1,099) and Lifestyle Ultra Subwoofer ($899). Coming May 15th. The new products directly compete with Sonos, though Bose isn't making you use its own app/platform for multi-room audio: it's favoring...

By Chris Welch
RAGE Gene Therapy Cuts Inflammation, Not Lifespan
SocialMay 5, 2026

RAGE Gene Therapy Cuts Inflammation, Not Lifespan

It's a gene therapy that targets the RAGE pathway (Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products) that mediates inflammation and oxidative stress signaling. So far, the mice data doesn't show significant longevity benefits and mostly reduced inflammation and vascular stiffness and kidney damage. On...

By Siim Land
Tailor ERP to Department Needs for Strategic Alignment
SocialMay 5, 2026

Tailor ERP to Department Needs for Strategic Alignment

Understanding business requirements is key to configuring ERP software. Each department has unique needs that shape the implementation to best align with the organization's goals. #ERP #BusinessNeeds https://t.co/NhJlcEQyXk

By Eric Kimberling
Agents Without Moats Will Falter in Fierce Market
SocialMay 5, 2026

Agents Without Moats Will Falter in Fierce Market

Pointed ironies in the SERD wars, plus ADC hype, and what really works in breast cancer... How agents with no moat, no differentiation, and no clear advantage will struggle in a tough competitive market: https://t.co/2Efcy5ItNM https://t.co/FBDM2eDJd4

By Sally Church
Four Custom Instructions to Halve Your Busywork
SocialMay 5, 2026

Four Custom Instructions to Halve Your Busywork

4 ChatGPT ‘Custom Instructions’ that’ll cut your busywork in half https://t.co/QBbFnoH9cm #ChatGPT #prompting #AI #GenAI

By Catherine Adenle
AI Investment Now Outpaces Dot‑Com Era Share
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Investment Now Outpaces Dot‑Com Era Share

AI hardware and software investment is a larger part of our economy now than it was during the dot-com peak. https://t.co/PctEUUESxq

By Ryan Detrick
ChatGPT’s Politeness Comes From Human‑ranked Preference Tuning
SocialMay 5, 2026

ChatGPT’s Politeness Comes From Human‑ranked Preference Tuning

ChatGPT doesn't sound helpful by accident. Someone taught it to sound that way. After the model learns to follow instructions, labs show it thousands of answer pairs. Humans pick which response feels clearer, friendlier, or more useful. The model learns the preferred style. This...

By Louis Bouchard
Duol's Q1 Growth Slows, Guidance Cut
SocialMay 5, 2026

Duol's Q1 Growth Slows, Guidance Cut

My thoughts on $DUOL Q1 2026 Revenue growth—and essentially growth across all metrics—is slowing significantly. QoQ revenue growth slowed to +3.2%, and next quarter growth is expected to be even slower. If we extrapolate this pace, the company is currently growing...

By Sergey CYW
Aligned Ecosystems, Automation, and Fast AI Drive Partner Success
SocialMay 5, 2026

Aligned Ecosystems, Automation, and Fast AI Drive Partner Success

#IBMPartner What separates the partners who thrive in the AI era from those who fall behind? Second year at IBM Think and that question felt like the throughline of everything today. Kareem Yusuf , SVP of Ecosystem & Strategic Partners...

By Helen Yu
AI Hardware Spending Surges 31%, Software 15%
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Hardware Spending Surges 31%, Software 15%

AI spending on hardware is running at an annualized clip of 31% the past five quarters, while software is 15%. Both are well above longer trends. https://t.co/jpzfvBjcKR

By Ryan Detrick
OpenAI Accelerates AI Phone with Dual NPUs, Custom SoC
SocialMay 5, 2026

OpenAI Accelerates AI Phone with Dual NPUs, Custom SoC

OpenAI's version of Jarvis -> Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 Real-world visual sensing: "The ISP is the headline spec,...

By Glenn Gabe
Meta's AI Scans Bone Structure, Not Faces, to Flag Kids
SocialMay 5, 2026

Meta's AI Scans Bone Structure, Not Faces, to Flag Kids

What could go wrong? :) -> Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” "We’re also adding visual analysis as a...

By Glenn Gabe
Security Vendors Must Own AI, Not Serve It
SocialMay 5, 2026

Security Vendors Must Own AI, Not Serve It

GenAI is going to augment nearly every layer of the security stack. The interesting question for vendors is not whether the stack disappears. It is whether you become a feature of someone else's AI, or whether AI becomes a feature of...

By Sean D. Mack
Predict 2026 Corporate AI Spending After
SocialMay 5, 2026

Predict 2026 Corporate AI Spending After

Had a great ideas dinner @jpmorgan last night. To repeat a poll: Anthropic’s revenue is $30 to $40 billion annualized. Total corporate spending on AI will end 2026 at what annualized rate?

By Jan van Eck