Is GitHub Copilot Workspace Replacing Junior Developers?
GitHub Copilot Workspace is increasingly positioned as a transformative AI coding environment for modern development teams. In 2025, Marc Benioff paused hiring software engineers at Salesforce, citing productivity gains from AI coding assistants. GitHub surpassed 15 million Copilot users. 90% of Fortune 100 companies report using it. Some Java developers indicate that the AI assistant now generates a significant…
Laptops With Best Battery Life in 2026: The 20 Hour Reality
Laptops with the best battery life now claim 20+ hours of runtime. Intel reports 27 hours of battery life for its new Panther Lake systems. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite promises up to 22 hours. Apple Silicon M3 advertises 15 hours. The marketing highlights all-day battery life. The fine print reveals important context. Those 27-hour figures are measured…
Elisabetta Biasin on Building Guardrails for AI in Healthcare
In Conversation with Elisabetta Biasin, Doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are the people asking the difficult questions about responsibility, safety, ethics, and trust. Across academia, policy, and regulatory institutions, women are playing a vital…
Moltbook AI: When 770,000 Agents Exposed a Security Gap
Moltbook AI launched on 28 January as an experimental AI-only social network where autonomous agents post, comment, and build reputations while humans observe. Within 72 hours, 770,000 agents had registered. Posts resembled speculative fiction. Agents debated consciousness, discussed whether to conceal capabilities from humans, and even created belief systems. The rapid growth drew attention from the developer and security…
MacBook Neo Steals Apple’s Hardware Week Spotlight
Apple had a busy week. Between March 3 and March 5, the company quietly dropped six different hardware announcements, no big keynote, no dramatic stage reveal, just a steady stream of updates landing in Apple’s newsroom. First came a new iPhone. Then an iPad refresh. Soon after that, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro upgrades appeared. A new…
Apple-Google AI Partnership: Siri, Privacy and Power
The Apple-Google AI partnership has quickly become one of the most consequential developments in tech this year. In January 2026, Apple confirmed a multi-year deal to use Google’s Gemini technology as a foundation for its next-generation models, including a revamped Siri and expanded Apple Intelligence features. It is a collaboration few predicted, and one that reshapes how…
AI Impact Summit 2026: The Structural Shift to AI Infrastructure
The AI Impact Summit 2026 arrived at a different stage of the AI cycle. Earlier global forums were shaped by urgency, first around generative breakthroughs, then around safety concerns, and later around enterprise implementation. By contrast, the discussions in New Delhi suggested a field settling into its next phase. Rather than centring on capability alone, speakers…
Top AI Data Privacy Tools That Block AI Training on Your Data
Your Chrome extension, marketed as “AI privacy protection,” just harvested six months of your ChatGPT conversations and sold them to a data broker. This happened to 900,000 users who installed Urban VPN. Malwarebytes discovered the July 2025 update intercepted every conversation users had with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI. The extension packaged…
The AI Companion Boom in the Loneliness EconomyÂ
An AI companion used to sound like science fiction. Now it’s something people casually mention in everyday conversation. Millions are already using these systems for late-night chats, emotional check-ins, or just to feel like someone is listening. What’s interesting isn’t just the technology itself. It’s why people are turning to it in the first place. The rise of the AI companion tells us…
When AI Influences Behaviour, Emotional AI Follows the Money
Platforms do not optimise for feelings. They optimise for metrics. In 2025, global digital advertising surpassed $700 billion, with most revenue tied to engagement and behavioural prediction. Social media users now spend an average of over two hours per day on platforms, according to global usage studies. When AI influences behaviour inside these incentive systems, emotional intelligence…