Boston Dynamics Names Former Amazon Alexa Chief Rohit Prasad as CEO
Boston Dynamics announced on October 7, 2026, the appointment of Rohit Prasad, formerly senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa at Amazon, as its new chief executive officer. The move comes as the robotics company looks to accelerate its push into Physical AI and commercialize intelligent robotic systems at scale.Prasad’s background is squarely in […]
AI Overtakes All Other Causes of US Job Cuts in 2026
Artificial intelligence has become the single leading reason employers cite for job cuts in the United States in 2026, according to layoff tracking data. AI-related layoffs in the January-August period already surpassed the combined total recorded across all of 2024 and 2025, with roughly 116,175 US job cuts attributed to AI, about 22% of all […]
Google Pushes Nano Banana 2.1 Into Production Across Its AI Products
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an updated image-generation model, into production on October 6, 2026, making it live across the Gemini app, Google AI Studio, AI Mode in Search, and other Google platforms. The release came with an aggressive pricing move: Google halved image output pricing to $30 per million tokens, well below OpenAI’s competing […]
How We Decide Which Editorial Stories Make the Cut
Every day brings more Editorial coverage opportunities than we could possibly take on, so the real editorial work happens before a single word gets written: deciding what is worth a reader’s time in the first place.We weight verifiability over velocityA claim that is easy to verify beats a claim that is merely exciting. If a […]
The AI Market Trends Statistic We Stopped Citing
Not every widely repeated number holds up, and AI Market Trends coverage has its share of statistics that sound authoritative mostly because they get cited so often.The number that lost its contextA frequently cited statistic made the rounds across AI Market Trends coverage for months before we looked closely at its original source and realized […]
How We Decide Which AI Market Trends Stories Make the Cut
Every day brings more AI Market Trends coverage opportunities than we could possibly take on, so the real editorial work happens before a single word gets written: deciding what is worth a reader’s time in the first place.We weight verifiability over velocityA claim that is easy to verify beats a claim that is merely exciting. […]
What We Got Wrong About AI Companies Coverage a Year Ago
Looking back at our own AI Companies coverage from a year ago surfaces a few calls that did not hold up the way we expected, and we think naming them is more useful than letting them quietly disappear.We underestimated how fast the consensus could shiftA view that seemed like a safe, widely shared assumption in […]
The AI Companies Statistic We Stopped Citing
Not every widely repeated number holds up, and AI Companies coverage has its share of statistics that sound authoritative mostly because they get cited so often.The number that lost its contextA frequently cited statistic made the rounds across AI Companies coverage for months before we looked closely at its original source and realized the methodology […]
How We Decide Which AI Companies Stories Make the Cut
Every day brings more AI Companies coverage opportunities than we could possibly take on, so the real editorial work happens before a single word gets written: deciding what is worth a reader’s time in the first place.We weight verifiability over velocityA claim that is easy to verify beats a claim that is merely exciting. If […]
How We Decide Which Interviews Stories Make the Cut
Every day brings more Interviews coverage opportunities than we could possibly take on, so the real editorial work happens before a single word gets written: deciding what is worth a reader’s time in the first place.We weight verifiability over velocityA claim that is easy to verify beats a claim that is merely exciting. If a […]