From the Field
Field Report
At Shoptalk Fall, AI Grew Up
At Shoptalk Fall in Nashville, the AI conversation shifted from what the technology can do to the data, controls and people needed to make it work.
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Topic: AI
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Developing
California Tightens Online Child Safety Rules for Social Media and AI Chatbots
California is moving beyond warning labels, restricting addictive social-media features for children under 16 while imposing new safety and audit requirements on AI chatbots used by minors.
NextDesign
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.
NextWork
Analysis
Wipro Says AI Freed the Capacity of 20,000 Workers. It Redeployed Them.
Wipro says AI has created productivity gains equivalent to 20,000 employees while the company redeploys workers into new roles—a glimpse at what large-scale human-AI work may actually look like.
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.
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News Brief
Meta Loses Star AI Researcher Andrew Tulloch to Anthropic
Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta for Anthropic less than a year after joining the company amid an extraordinary bidding war for frontier AI talent.
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
Developing
Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek as AI Chip Alliance Deepens
The convertible-bond investment ties MediaTek’s custom silicon to Nvidia’s data-center architecture across cloud systems, PCs and vehicles.
NextCommerce
Analysis
Google’s Preferred Sources Button Puts Loyalty Into Search
An embeddable Preferred Sources control gives publishers a new way to ask audiences for durable visibility inside Google’s changing discovery products.