A new breakdown shows Apple’s Detroit Developer Academy costs about $20,000 per student, with taxpayers footing a big part of the bill. Job placement sits around 71%, raising questions about the program’s value and real-world impact.
A Fast Company article argues that bad AI tools are everywhere, and they’re poisoning the well for the real thing. Business leaders aren’t resisting innovation—they’re rejecting the disappointing products falsely labeled as AI.
Moving to the cloud isn’t just a lift-and-shift operation; it’s a major security event. A new article warns that failing to prioritize ransomware protection during this chaotic phase can lead to catastrophic data loss and downtime. The time to plan your defense is before you migrate a single byte.
According to a year of executive interviews by PYMNTS, the biggest shift in 2025 was AI becoming an invisible “governing layer” for commerce. The real action was in infrastructure: payments networks repositioning, loyalty becoming a real-time currency, and regulation evolving from a brake to a stabi
Instacart has shut down an AI tool that was running algorithmic price experiments on shoppers. The system resulted in different customers paying different prices for identical items from the same store.
Forget the hype. The real crypto story of 2025 was about banks, regulation, and building boring infrastructure. The US GENIUS Act provided stablecoin rules, and over $16 billion in venture capital flowed in.
The CEOs of multi-billion-dollar AI companies Glean and Databricks are tempering expectations about AI automation. They reveal that complex internal projects often fail, pushing companies back to simpler models. They argue this high failure rate is actually healthy for innovation.
A writer for XDA-Developers attempted to do all his work from the Windows Terminal, ditching GUI apps. He found it’s more possible than you’d think, using tools like Edit, Links, and winget, though it’s far from a perfect replacement for modern computing.
OpenAI has launched an app store for ChatGPT, allowing third-party apps to run natively inside conversations. This move turns the chatbot into a platform, but key challenges around developer revenue and app quality remain. The next few months will be critical.
New York’s landmark RAISE Act was significantly weakened before Governor Kathy Hochul signed it. A lobbying group including major universities and tech companies ran ads against the original bill, which had stricter safety rules for AI developers.
