The Convenient Fable of AI Efficiency The global tech industry is currently engaged in a profound act of self-deception, one with potentially severe consequences for its future. The convenient fiction that artificial intelligence is driving Read More
The Agentic Assistant Nobody Asked To Be Renamed Google’s latest attempt to embed AI deeper into our daily lives, Gemini Spark, arrives with a familiar contradiction: genuine utility obscured by a confusing product strategy. Read More
The Echo Chamber of “Category-Defining” As applications for TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield 200 program close on May 27, the relentless drumbeat for “category-defining” startups offers a revealing glimpse into a Silicon Valley mindset that consistently overlooks much Read More
The 23-Minute Problem: A Glaring Vulnerability Twenty-three minutes. That is the critical window, according to recent research, during which a supposedly deleted Google API key can still authenticate requests, allowing attackers ample time to exfiltrate Read More
The Ghost in the Machine: Why Fax Still Rules Healthcare Referrals Let’s be honest about this: The American healthcare system, for all its marvels of surgical precision and pharmaceutical innovation, often feels like it’Read More
The Uncomfortable Urgency Behind OpenAI’s Latest Safety Play OpenAI, for all its revolutionary strides, has found itself navigating increasingly treacherous waters. The latest ripple is a new feature dubbed ‘Trusted Contact,’ designed to step Read More
The Unseen Cracks in the AI Economy’s Foundation I’ve been covering tech long enough to know when the air starts to get a little thin at the top of a hype cycle. And Read More