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The AI Trust Gap: How AI Products Sell Their Own Fixes
The AI trust gap today has less to do with fear of artificial intelligence and more to do with how AI products are built and sold. Users still want AI to help them write, hire, detect fraud, and manage risk, but confidence drops when tools appear to introduce friction before offering paid ways to remove it. Over…
Meta GDPR Fine: Why the €1.2 Billion Penalty Changed Nothing
Ireland imposed the largest privacy penalty in history in May 2023 — the €1.2 billion fine against Meta under the GDPR. The ruling targeted Meta’s long-running transfer of European Facebook user data to US servers without adequate legal protection, ordering the company to stop unlawful transfers and bring existing data storage into compliance. The violation? Transferring…
Major AI Failure Scandals Big Tech Didn’t See Coming
For the past few years, companies have rushed to add artificial intelligence to products, workflows, and customer interactions, a push that has also led to a growing number of AI failure scandals playing out in public. Sometimes it worked. Other times, it didn’t — at least not in the way teams expected. What follows are moments where AI didn’t fail in dramatic…
Digital Minimalism at Work and the Limits of Tool Bans
Companies ban Slack after 6 PM. Meeting schedules get blocked. Async-first communication is pushed. Microsoft added Slack to its “prohibited” list in 2019. 88% of executives managing remote teams do not plan a return to the office. Remote work has created a permanent need for workplace boundaries. In response, organisations experiment with no-meeting days, tool restrictions, and right-to-disconnect…
Why an AI Deepfake Detector with 98% Accuracy Still Fails
UC Riverside and Drexel researchers built a universal AI detector that identifies deepfakes with 98.3% accuracy, covering face swaps, synthetic speech, and fully generated content within a single model. This was widely seen as a long-awaited solution to the deepfake problem. A system positioned as effective across multiple content formats. At scale, however, a 98% accuracy rate behaves very differently….
Why Are People Paying Premium Prices for Dumb Phones?
The Light Phone III costs $799. That places it close to flagship smartphone pricing for a device that makes calls, sends texts, and takes basic photos. The company has stated it does not plan to add features typically found on smartphones. Despite the limitations, demand is growing. Buyers are now deliberately choosing dumb phones. There is…
Apple Shareholder Lawsuit Targets AI Claims
Apple’s stock has fallen 25% since December. Wiped out $900 billion in value. Shareholders filed an Apple shareholder lawsuit alleging the company overstated the readiness of its AI features while continuing to promote them to investors. In the June 2024, WWDC keynote Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” would make Siri actually useful. Understanding context, handling complex requests, and executing advanced tasks….
The Great App Purge: What People Actually Deleted in 2025
Google removed 49,613 apps from the Play Store in May 2025 alone. Users manually deleted millions more. The Play Store catalog shrank from 3.4 million apps to 1.8 million by May. That is a 47% reduction. The Great App Purge on the Google Play Store reflected both platform enforcement and rising user exhaustion, driven by battery drain, storage bloat, and notification spam. …
AI Browsers are Quietly Changing How We Search and Work
For years, the browser has been the most familiar tool on our screens. Open a tab. Search for something. Click links. Switch between pages. Repeat. That rhythm barely changed, even as cloud apps and AI tools evolved around it. That is now starting to shift. AI browsers are emerging as a new layer between users and the web….
Starlink India Approval: Why Rural Connectivity Gaps Remain
India cleared Starlink for satellite internet operations in July. Despite this approval, around 630 million people across the country still lack reliable internet access. The Starlink India approval marks regulatory progress, but it does not address the scale of India’s rural connectivity gap. IN-SPACe’s clearance concluded a three-year licensing process, allowing SpaceX to operate 4,408 low-Earth-orbit satellites over India. While the…