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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, We Will Never Forget
A personal reflection on Sept. 11, the friends we searched for, the silence that followed and what it means to remember 25 years later.
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Julie Wohlberg
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Analysis
AI Discovery Is Starting to Change Where Advertisers Put Their Money
IAB raised its 2026 U.S. ad-spend growth forecast to 12.3% as marketers put more emphasis on brand equity, creator partnerships and visibility inside AI-driven discovery.
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Developing
DOJ Is Asking Whether Nvidia’s $17 Billion Groq Deal Was an Acquisition in Disguise
The Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia structured its Groq licensing deal to avoid the antitrust review that a conventional acquisition would face.
NextTech
Developing
AI’s Extinction Debate Is Escaping the Labs
Public warnings from Anthropic researchers are pushing a long-running debate over catastrophic AI risk into politics and the mainstream technology conversation.
NextTech
Analysis
Anthropic’s Bioweapon Warning Shows AI’s Dual-Use Problem Is Here
Anthropic says it blocked researchers whose Claude use could have supported biological weapons development—but could not determine whether the work was legitimate science or malicious. That ambiguity is the point.
NextTech
Analysis
Mistral’s €3 Billion Round Turns AI Sovereignty Into Strategy
Samsung-led financing gives Europe’s flagship AI company more capital to compete on models, infrastructure and enterprise control.
NextCommerce
Analysis
AI Makes Content Cheap. Compliance Is the New Bottleneck
Blee’s $27 million financing highlights the next constraint in AI marketing: reviewing, approving and governing an expanding volume of content.
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Field Report
NextNow Is Heading to Shoptalk Fall in Nashville
NextNow will report from Shoptalk Fall 2026 in Nashville on the technology, commerce and customer decisions defining retail’s next operating cycle.
NextTech
Analysis
Texas Is Turning AI Infrastructure Into a Political Contract
Texas is auditing data-center grid requests and weighing tougher conditions, turning AI infrastructure growth into a test of power, water and public legitimacy.
NextTech
Analysis
OpenAI’s ‘Research Intern’ Claim Raises a Bigger Management Question
OpenAI says its researchers now receive days of useful agent work each day. The larger management question is how to measure output when human judgment remains central.