A design firm is editing a new campaign video on a MacBook Pro. The creative director opens a collaboration app that quietly requests microphone and camera permissions. MacOS is supposed to flag that, but in this case, the checks are loose. The app gets access anyway. On another Mac in the same office, file sharing is enabled through an old protocol called SMB version one. It’s fast and

Thanks to everyone who made this year's San Francisco event what it was -- and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn't make it? These images tell part of the story.

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The burgeoning demands of generative AI are fundamentally reshaping the competitive landscape of cloud computing, compelling even market leaders like Amazon to critically assess their strategic investments. CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos, reporting on Amazon’s third-quarter earnings, underscored that the company’s cloud momentum and substantial AI infrastructure spending are now under intense scrutiny, with investors eager to […]

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It's no secret that Amazon Games had been working on some version of a Lord of the Rings MMO, although the game had already been cancelled once due to contract disputes, and the second version, which was being worked on in conjunction with Embracer, hasn't been seen or heard from in a while. The recent news of Amazon's mass layoffs shift towards casual games, and specifically away from MMOs and AAA games, raised questions about the future of the Lord of the Rings MMO, however Amazon had—and still hasn't—made an official proclamation regarding the game's demise.

Ashley Amrine, a software engineer affected by those Amazon Gaming layoffs has more or less confirmed, in a now-deleted LinkedIn post (via Rock Paper Shotgun), that the Lord of the Rings MMO has seemingly been cancelled. In her post addressing the fact that she had been laid off, Ashleigh Amrine, a former engineer at Amazon Games, wrote: "This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y'all would have loved it)." Her revelation suggests that it would still have been a while before the new MMO launched, but it was previously described as "open-world MMO adventure in a persistent world set in Middle-earth, featuring the beloved stories of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings literary trilogy" when it was first announced. The team working on the game was the same one that had been responsible for New World, which, despite its hiccups, seemed to have largely been a success, managing to hold onto a fairly impressive ~35,000 daily players on Steam alone.

Apple's new MacBook Pro isn't just about the M5 – it packs another surprisingly peppy upgrade under the hood.

Sora’s Character Cameos let you turn real-world objects into custom video stars.

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Salesforce Agentic Commerce introduces AI-powered tools and strategic partnerships to redefine retail, enhancing discovery, personalization, and operational efficiency.

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The Genode operating system framework continues innovating over a decade and a half later on this original open-source OS creation and with that Sculpt OS as its general purpose OS. Out today is Sculpt OS 25.10 to incorporate the latest enhancements to the platform...

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2025. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $102.5 billion, up 8 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $1.85, up 13 percent year over year on an adjusted basis.

"Today, Apple is very proud to report a September quarter revenue record of $102.5 billion, including a September quarter revenue record for iPhone and an all-time revenue record for Services," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "In September, we were thrilled to launch our best iPhone lineup ever, including iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and iPhone Air. In addition, we launched the fantastic AirPods Pro 3 and the all-new Apple Watch lineup. When combined with the recently announced MacBook Pro and iPad Pro with the powerhouse M5 chip, we are excited to be sharing our most extraordinary lineup of products as we head into the holiday season."

Western Digital Corp. today reported fiscal first quarter 2026 financial results for the period ended October 3, 2025.

"Western Digital continues to execute well in a strong demand environment driven by growth of data storage in the cloud. In our fiscal first quarter, we achieved revenue and gross margin above the high end of our guidance range, while delivering strong free cash flow," said Irving Tan, CEO of Western Digital. "As AI accelerates data creation, Western Digital's continued innovation and operational discipline position us well to capture new opportunities and drive sustained shareholder value. Reflecting confidence in the company's strong business momentum, the Board of Directors has increased the quarterly cash dividend on the company's common stock by 25% to $0.125 per share."

PUBG and other top games are about to change? NVIDIA’s ACE technology aims to introduce human-like AI squadmates ready to play, listen, and adapt alongside you.

OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered autonomous security researcher agent now available in private beta.

Designed to emulate how human experts identify and resolve software vulnerabilities, Aardvark offers a multi-stage, LLM-driven approach for continuous, 24/7/365 code analysis, exploit validation, and patch generation!

Positioned as a scalable defense tool for modern software development environments, Aardvark is being tested across internal and external codebases.

OpenAI reports high recall and real-world effectiveness in identifying known and synthetic vulnerabilities, with early deployments surfacing previously undetected security issues.

Aardvark comes on the heels of OpenAI’s release of the gpt-oss-safeguard models yesterday, extending the company’s recent emphasis on agentic and policy-aligned systems.

Technical Design and Operation

Aardvark operates as an agentic system that continuously analyzes source code repositories. Unlike conventional tools that rely on fuzzing or software composition analysis, Aardvark leverages LLM reasoning and tool-use capabilities to interpret code behavior and identify vulnerabilities.

It simulates a security researcher’s workflow by reading code, conducting semantic analysis, writing and executing test cases, and using diagnostic tools.

Its process follows a structured multi-stage pipeline:

1. Threat Modeling – Aardvark initiates its analysis by ingesting an entire code repository to generate a threat model. This model reflects the inferred security objectives and architectural design of the software.

2. Commit-Level Scanning – As code changes are committed, Aardvark compares diffs against the repository’s threat model to detect potential vulnerabilities. It also performs historical scans when a repository is first connected.

3. Validation Sandbox – Detected vulnerabilities are tested in an isolated environment to confirm exploitability. This reduces false positives and enhances report accuracy.

4. Automated Patching – The system integrates with OpenAI Codex to generate patches. These proposed fixes are then reviewed and submitted via pull requests for developer approval.

Aardvark integrates with GitHub, Codex, and common development pipelines to provide continuous, non-intrusive security scanning. All insights are intended to be human-auditable, with clear annotations and reproducibility.

Performance and Application

According to OpenAI, Aardvark has been operational for several months on internal codebases and with select alpha partners.

In benchmark testing on “golden” repositories—where known and synthetic vulnerabilities were seeded—Aardvark identified 92% of total issues.

OpenAI emphasizes that its accuracy and low false positive rate are key differentiators.

The agent has also been deployed on open-source projects. To date, it has discovered multiple critical issues, including ten vulnerabilities that were assigned CVE identifiers.

OpenAI states that all findings were responsibly disclosed under its recently updated coordinated disclosure policy, which favors collaboration over rigid timelines.

In practice, Aardvark has surfaced complex bugs beyond traditional security flaws, including logic errors, incomplete fixes, and privacy risks. This suggests broader utility beyond security-specific contexts.

Integration and Requirements

During the private beta, Aardvark is only available to organizations using GitHub Cloud (github.com). OpenAI invites beta testers to sign up here online by filling out a web form. Participation requirements include:

• Integration with GitHub Cloud

• Commitment to interact with Aardvark and provide qualitative feedback

• Agreement to beta-specific terms and privacy policies

OpenAI confirmed that code submitted to Aardvark during the beta will not be used to train its models.

The company is also offering pro bono vulnerability scanning for selected non-commercial open-source repositories, citing its intent to contribute to the health of the software supply chain.

Strategic Context

The launch of Aardvark signals OpenAI’s broader movement into agentic AI systems with domain-specific capabilities.

While OpenAI is best known for its general-purpose models (e.g., GPT-4 and GPT-5), Aardvark is part of a growing trend of specialized AI agents designed to operate semi-autonomously within real-world environments. In fact, it joins two other active OpenAI agents now:

• ChatGPT agent, unveiled back in July 2025, which controls a virtual computer and web browser and can create and edit common productivity files

• Codex — previously the name of OpenAI's open source coding model, which it took and re-used as the name of its new GPT-5 variant-powered AI coding agent unveiled back in May 2025

But a security-focused agent makes a lot of sense, especially as demands on security teams grow.

In 2024 alone, over 40,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were reported, and OpenAI’s internal data suggests that 1.2% of all code commits introduce bugs.

Aardvark’s positioning as a “defender-first” AI aligns with a market need for proactive security tools that integrate tightly with developer workflows rather than operate as post-hoc scanning layers.

OpenAI’s coordinated disclosure policy updates further reinforce its commitment to sustainable collaboration with developers and the open-source community, rather than emphasizing adversarial vulnerability reporting.

While yesterday's release of oss-safeguard uses chain-of-thought reasoning to apply safety policies during inference, Aardvark applies similar LLM reasoning to secure evolving codebases.

Together, these tools signal OpenAI’s shift from static tooling toward flexible, continuously adaptive systems — one focused on content moderation, the other on proactive vulnerability detection and automated patching within real-world software development environments.

What It Means For Enterprises and the CyberSec Market Going Forward

Aardvark represents OpenAI’s entry into automated security research through agentic AI. By combining GPT-5’s language understanding with Codex-driven patching and validation sandboxes, Aardvark offers an integrated solution for modern software teams facing increasing security complexity.

While currently in limited beta, the early performance indicators suggest potential for broader adoption. If proven effective at scale, Aardvark could contribute to a shift in how organizations embed security into continuous development environments.

For security leaders tasked with managing incident response, threat detection, and day-to-day protections—particularly those operating with limited team capacity—Aardvark may serve as a force multiplier. Its autonomous validation pipeline and human-auditable patch proposals could streamline triage and reduce alert fatigue, enabling smaller security teams to focus on strategic incidents rather than manual scanning and follow-up.

AI engineers responsible for integrating models into live products may benefit from Aardvark’s ability to surface bugs that arise from subtle logic flaws or incomplete fixes, particularly in fast-moving development cycles. Because Aardvark monitors commit-level changes and tracks them against threat models, it may help prevent vulnerabilities introduced during rapid iteration, without slowing delivery timelines.

For teams orchestrating AI across distributed environments, Aardvark’s sandbox validation and continuous feedback loops could align well with CI/CD-style pipelines for ML systems. Its ability to plug into GitHub workflows positions it as a compatible addition to modern AI operations stacks, especially those aiming to integrate robust security checks into automation pipelines without additional overhead.

And for data infrastructure teams maintaining critical pipelines and tooling, Aardvark’s LLM-driven inspection capabilities could offer an added layer of resilience. Vulnerabilities in data orchestration layers often go unnoticed until exploited; Aardvark’s ongoing code review process may surface issues earlier in the development lifecycle, helping data engineers maintain both system integrity and uptime.

In practice, Aardvark represents a shift in how security expertise might be operationalized—not just as a defensive perimeter, but as a persistent, context-aware participant in the software lifecycle. Its design suggests a model where defenders are no longer bottlenecked by scale, but augmented by intelligent agents working alongside them.

Researchers at Meta FAIR and the University of Edinburgh have developed a new technique that can predict the correctness of a large language model's (LLM) reasoning and even intervene to fix its mistakes. Called Circuit-based Reasoning Verification (CRV), the method looks inside an LLM to monitor its internal “reasoning circuits” and detect signs of computational errors as the model solves a problem.

Their findings show that CRV can detect reasoning errors in LLMs with high accuracy by building and observing a computational graph from the model's internal activations. In a key breakthrough, the researchers also demonstrated they can use this deep insight to apply targeted interventions that correct a model’s faulty reasoning on the fly.

The technique could help solve one of the great challenges of AI: Ensuring a model’s reasoning is faithful and correct. This could be a critical step toward building more trustworthy AI applications for the enterprise, where reliability is paramount.

Investigating chain-of-thought reasoning

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been a powerful method for boosting the performance of LLMs on complex tasks and has been one of the key ingredients in the success of reasoning models such as the OpenAI o-series and DeepSeek-R1. 

However, despite the success of CoT, it is not fully reliable. The reasoning process itself is often flawed, and several studies have shown that the CoT tokens an LLM generates is not always a faithful representation of its internal reasoning process.

Current remedies for verifying CoT fall into two main categories. “Black-box” approaches analyze the final generated token or the confidence scores of different token options. “Gray-box” approaches go a step further, looking at the model's internal state by using simple probes on its raw neural activations. 

But while these methods can detect that a model’s internal state is correlated with an error, they can't explain why the underlying computation failed. For real-world applications where understanding the root cause of a failure is crucial, this is a significant gap.

A white-box approach to verification

CRV is based on the idea that models perform tasks using specialized subgraphs, or "circuits," of neurons that function like latent algorithms. So if the model’s reasoning fails, it is caused by a flaw in the execution of one of these algorithms. This means that by inspecting the underlying computational process, we can diagnose the cause of the flaw, similar to how developers examine execution traces to debug traditional software.

To make this possible, the researchers first make the target LLM interpretable. They replace the standard dense layers of the transformer blocks with trained "transcoders." A transcoder is a specialized deep learning component that forces the model to represent its intermediate computations not as a dense, unreadable vector of numbers, but as a sparse and meaningful set of features. Transcoders are similar to the sparse autoencoders (SAE) used in mechanistic interpretability research with the difference that they also preserve the functionality of the network they emulate. This modification effectively installs a diagnostic port into the model, allowing researchers to observe its internal workings.

With this interpretable model in place, the CRV process unfolds in a few steps. For each reasoning step the model takes, CRV constructs an "attribution graph" that maps the causal flow of information between the interpretable features of the transcoder and the tokens it is processing. From this graph, it extracts a "structural fingerprint" that contains a set of features describing the graph's properties. Finally, a “diagnostic classifier” model is trained on these fingerprints to predict whether the reasoning step is correct or not.

At inference time, the classifier monitors the activations of the model and provides feedback on whether the model’s reasoning trace is on the right track.

Finding and fixing errors

The researchers tested their method on a Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model modified with the transcoders, evaluating it on a mix of synthetic (Boolean and Arithmetic) and real-world (GSM8K math problems) datasets. They compared CRV against a comprehensive suite of black-box and gray-box baselines.

The results provide strong empirical support for the central hypothesis: the structural signatures in a reasoning step's computational trace contain a verifiable signal of its correctness. CRV consistently outperformed all baseline methods across every dataset and metric, demonstrating that a deep, structural view of the model's computation is more powerful than surface-level analysis.

Interestingly, the analysis revealed that the signatures of error are highly domain-specific. This means failures in different reasoning tasks (formal logic versus arithmetic calculation) manifest as distinct computational patterns. A classifier trained to detect errors in one domain does not transfer well to another, highlighting that different types of reasoning rely on different internal circuits. In practice, this means that you might need to train a separate classifier for each task (though the transcoder remains unchanged).

The most significant finding, however, is that these error signatures are not just correlational but causal. Because CRV provides a transparent view of the computation, a predicted failure can be traced back to a specific component. In one case study, the model made an order-of-operations error. CRV flagged the step and identified that a "multiplication" feature was firing prematurely. The researchers intervened by manually suppressing that single feature, and the model immediately corrected its path and solved the problem correctly. 

This work represents a step toward a more rigorous science of AI interpretability and control. As the paper concludes, “these findings establish CRV as a proof-of-concept for mechanistic analysis, showing that shifting from opaque activations to interpretable computational structure enables a causal understanding of how and why LLMs fail to reason correctly.” To support further research, the team plans to release its datasets and trained transcoders to the public.

Why it’s important

While CRV is a research proof-of-concept, its results hint at a significant future for AI development. AI models learn internal algorithms, or "circuits," for different tasks. But because these models are opaque, we can't debug them like standard computer programs by tracing bugs to specific steps in the computation. Attribution graphs are the closest thing we have to an execution trace, showing how an output is derived from intermediate steps.

This research suggests that attribution graphs could be the foundation for a new class of AI model debuggers. Such tools would allow developers to understand the root cause of failures, whether it's insufficient training data or interference between competing tasks. This would enable precise mitigations, like targeted fine-tuning or even direct model editing, instead of costly full-scale retraining. They could also allow for more efficient intervention to correct model mistakes during inference.

The success of CRV in detecting and pinpointing reasoning errors is an encouraging sign that such debuggers could become a reality. This would pave the way for more robust LLMs and autonomous agents that can handle real-world unpredictability and, much like humans, correct course when they make reasoning mistakes. 

LinkedIn's also taking more action to crack down on fake engagement activity.

The company's shares surged as much as 14% on strong sales in its cloud business AWS.

A new 30-second ad airs as The Trade Desk's rivalry with Amazon reaches new heights.

The CMO of Take 5 Oil Change shares how he's solving the brand value equation.

This compact SSD offers rapid transfers and fingerprint access, but its limited capacity and uncertain durability curb its professional potential.

The Quoted Tech Shield gaming PC is a great way to get into serious PC gaming, but there are some quirks that you'll have to navigate to do so.

The end of Windows 10 support has driven users toward Apple’s Mac devices, reshaping global PC sales and computing preferences.

Best Buy has some excellent budget gaming laptops available ahead of Black Friday, including this excellent value HP Victus 15 with an RTX 4050.

A YouTuber used Raspberry Pi hardware to recreate the eerie dial-up screech, transforming Wi-Fi signals into nostalgic analog noise.

Navan finished its first day trading at an approximate valuation of $4.7 billion, which is about half of its last private valuation of $9.2 billion.

Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in its $500 million Series A round in 2024.

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Stripe, under the leadership of Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI, is not merely adapting to the artificial intelligence revolution; it is actively constructing the financial infrastructure upon which this burgeoning agent economy will operate. In a recent Latent Space podcast interview with hosts Shawn Wang and Alessio Fanelli, Sands articulated Stripe’s ambitious […]

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AI code generation startup Poolside is reportedly raising up to $1 billion from investor Nvidia to build tools that accelerate software development.

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The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence into daily life and industrial infrastructure is no longer a distant vision but a tangible reality, as evidenced by the rapid-fire developments discussed in Matthew Berman’s latest Forward Future AI news briefing. From the nascent stages of consumer robotics to revolutionary computing paradigms, the AI landscape is undergoing a […]

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In an era where artificial intelligence often conjures images of job displacement, XPO CEO Mario Harik offers a refreshingly pragmatic perspective: AI, for his logistics giant, is fundamentally about efficiency and optimization, not headcount reduction. This insight anchored a recent interview on CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange with anchor Frank Hollan, where Harik detailed XPO’s latest earnings […]

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Amazon’s third-quarter profits rose 38% to $21.2 billion, but a big part of the jump had nothing to do with its core businesses of selling good or cloud services.

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in its non-operating income for the quarter.

The windfall wasn’t the result of a sale or cash transaction, but rather accounting rules. After Anthropic raised new funding in September at a $183 billion valuation, Amazon was required to revalue its equity stake to reflect the higher market price, a process known as a “mark-to-market” adjustment.

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business — historically Amazon’s primary profit engine — generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits.

At the same time, Amazon is spending big on its AI infrastructure buildout for Anthropic and others. The company just opened an $11 billion AI data center complex, dubbed Project Rainier, where Anthropic’s Claude models run on hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s Trainium 2 chips.

Amazon is going head-to-head against Microsoft, which just re-upped its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI; and Google, which reported record cloud revenue for its recent quarter, driven by AI. The AI infrastructure race is fueling a big surge in capital spending for all three cloud giants.

Amazon spent $35.1 billion on property and equipment in the third quarter alone, up 55% from a year earlier. Andy Jassy, the Amazon CEO, sought to reassure Wall Street that the big outlay will be worth it.

“You’re going to see us continue to be very aggressive investing in capacity, because we see the demand,” Jassy said on the company’s conference call. “As fast as we’re adding capacity right now, we’re monetizing it. It’s still quite early, and represents an unusual opportunity for customers and AWS.”

The cash for new data centers doesn’t hit the bottom line immediately, but it comes into play as depreciation and amortization costs are recorded on the income statement over time.

And in that way, the spending is starting to impact on AWS results: sales rose 20% to $33 billion in the quarter, yet operating income increased only 9.6% to $11.4 billion. The gap indicates that Amazon’s heavy AI investments are compressing profit margins in the near term, even as the company bets on the infrastructure build-out to expand its business significantly over time.

Those investments are also weighing on cash generation: Amazon’s free cash flow dropped 69% over the past year to $14.8 billion, reflecting the massive outlays for data centers and infrastructure.

Amazon has invested and committed a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes. A portion of that investment converted to equity with Anthropic’s prior funding round in March.

Corsair just announced its entrance into the leverless fightstick scene first popularized by Hit Box, the new Corsair Novablade Pro. Or to be more specific, the Corsair Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller—but we'll stick with Novablade Pro for now. The Novablade Pro is a direct competitor to the likes of Hit Box's

Alleged results for Core Ultra X7 358H & Ultra X5 338H CPUs suggest they're actually slower than their predecessors.

With Halo: Campaign Evolved, the remake of Combat Evolved having been confirmed to launch in 2026, replete with a PS5 launch, rumors have started circulating that the 2004 and 2007 Halo 2 and Halo 3 will also be getting a remake, supposedly also courtesy of Halo Studios. These leaks come courtesy of @leaks_infinite on X, a prolific leaker who previously tipped the upcoming Campaign Evolved game, so there's a solid chance they're legitimate. No release date has yet been revealed by the leaker's source, suggesting that the release date would still be a way out, although there are a handful of details that have been revealed.

As with the Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and 3 will be complete remakes of the games, but with the addition of sprinting and with the multiplayer game modes stripped out. Supposedly, multiplayer gameplay is reserved for Halo 7, the next modern release in the franchise, with the justification that having multiplayer in too many Halo games would result in the different games in the franchise simply competing against themselves, ultimately resulting in a diminished experience for all of the games involved. This means that all the focus for the remakes will also go into the campaigns and general single-player gameplay, which has many Halo fans excited about the prospect of the remakes.

Arc Raiders launched less than 24 hours ago, and it has already become a smash hit, beating out many of the top free-to-play games currently topping Steam charts, despite its $39.99 price tag on Steam. At the time of writing, around seven hours after Arc Raiders launched, the game had peaked at 264,673 players, putting it in fourth place in SteamDB's real-time concurrent player tracker and in the number-one spot in the trending games category. For comparison, The Finals, a free-to-play shooter from the same developer, Embark Studios, launched almost two years ago, and it similarly hit high player counts as early as day one, topping out at 242,619 concurrent players, according to SteamDB. Given that Arc Raiders launched on a Thursday and reached such heights already, it stands to reason that the weekend may see player counts rise even further.

Arc Raiders still has a way to go to catch up to some of its more popular peers in the shooter genre, though. Battlefield 6, which launched earlier this month, has recorded concurrent players counts as high as 747,440 players, while PUBG: Battlegrounds peaked at over 3 million players in January 2018. Arc Raiders's popularity comes with a rather impressive "Very Positive" (89% positive) rating on Steam, despite the developer's use of divisive generative AI tech in the game's development. As is the case with The Finals, Arc Raiders only offers a Windows installer package and uses Easy Anti-Cheat, but Embark Studios is not hostile towards Linux users, and many users on ProtonDB have reported that the game works on Linux with Valve's Proton compatibility layer, even without any tweaks, earning it a "Gold" rating on the database.

With the recent barrage of AMD-powered mini PCs coming to the market, it was only a matter of time before manufacturers started dipping into peculiar form factors and niche gimmicks in order to set themselves apart from the vaguely Mac Mini-shaped crowd. GTBox has apparently decided that its new take on the mini PC would take shape as a PC disguised as a navy blue Bluetooth speaker. Not coincidentally, the mini PC also includes two 5 W stereo speakers, which GTBox claims deliver "precise localization, a wide soundstage, and deep immersion," although it's more likely something akin to a sound bar, given how much of the PC's internals are taken up by the actual PC components.

Questions about the speaker quality aside, the internals boast some decent specifications, including an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS, with its Radeon 780M, 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1 TB PCIe SSD. The port selection isn't bad either, with the T1 equipped with 3× USB 3.2 ports, 1× USB 2.0, 1× USB4, an RJ45 port for 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, a DisplayPort 2.0 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port. All of the ports are located on the rear, alongside the exhaust for the single fan, all in an attempt to maintain the clean design with its fabric cover. The mini PC also features a backlit GTBox logo and an LED ring on the top of the case, which can be adjusted to green, blue, or yellow. It also comes with Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6 on-board.

Intel's upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPU configurations previously leaked, revealing a line-up ranging from the modest Core Ultra 3 320U, with 2 P-Cores and 4 LPE-Cores to the notably higher-end Core Ultra X9 388H, featuring 4 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores, and 4 LPE-Cores. Now, performance figures for the more mid-range Intel Core Ultra X7 358H and Core Ultra 5 338H have both been leaked, thanks to Laptopreview Club. According to the site, the Core Ultra X7 in question managed a Cinebench R23 score of around 20,000, while the Core Ultra 5 338H came in at around 16,000 points or 20% slower than the X7 variant—the site doesn't provide exact scores, only rounded figures, but it's some idea of what to expect in terms of CPU performance for the next-gen Intel CPU platform.

As previously discussed, Panther Lake appears to be focusing more on iGPU performance, with leaked benchmarks revealing RTX 3050-tier performance from the 12-core Xe3 iGPU solution, but this is the first indication of CPU performance for the new CPU generation. The leaker claims that the 358H will be around 10% slower than the 255H at the same power consumption, in this case 60-65 W, with Cinebench R23 scores for the 255H ranging from the low 17,000s to upwards of 22,000. It appears, thus, that Panther Lake may sacrifice some CPU performance in order to improve iGPU performance, although these are still early rumors, and things are subject to change ahead of launch. The idea that Intel would launch a new CPU that underperforms its old platform by such a margin seems unlikely. It's possible that these tests were on the lower side of average or a worst-case scenario, either of which would actually make the performance of the new CPUs reasonably impressive.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s latest big round of layoffs — about 14,000 corporate jobs — wasn’t triggered by financial strain or artificial intelligence replacing workers, but rather a push to stay nimble.

Speaking with analysts on Amazon’s quarterly earnings call Thursday, Jassy said the decision stemmed from a belief that the company had grown too big and too layered.

“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven — not right now, at least,” he said. “Really, it’s culture.”

Jassy’s comments are his first public explanation of the layoffs, which reportedly could ultimately total as many as 30,000 people — and would be the largest workforce reduction in Amazon’s history.

The news this week prompted speculation that the cuts were tied to automation or AI-related restructuring. Earlier this year, Jassy wrote in a memo to employees that he expected Amazon’s total corporate workforce to shrink over time due to efficiency gains from AI.

But his comments Thursday framed the layoffs as a cultural reset aimed at keeping the company fast-moving amid what he called “the technology transformation happening right now.”

Jassy, who succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as CEO in mid-2021, has pushed to reduce management layers and eliminate bureaucracy inside the company.

Amazon’s corporate headcount tripled between 2017 and 2022, according to The Information, before the company adopted a more cautious hiring approach.

Bloomberg News reported this week that Jassy has told colleagues parts of the company remain “unwieldy” despite efforts to streamline operations — including significant layoffs in 2023 when Amazon cut 27,000 corporate workers in multiple stages. 

On Thursday’s call, Jassy said Amazon’s rapid growth led to extra layers of management that slowed decision-making.

“When that happens, sometimes without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work and who own most of the two-way door decisions — the ones that should be made quickly and right at the front line,” Jassy said, using a phrase popularized by Bezos to help determine how much thought and planning to put into big and small decisions.

The layoffs, he said, are meant to restore the kind of ownership and agility that defined Amazon’s early years.

“We are committed to operating like the world’s largest startup,” Jassy said, repeating a line he’s used recently.

Given the “transformation” he described happening across the business world, Jassy said it’s more important than ever to be lean, flat, and fast-moving. “That’s what we’re going to do,” he said.

Jassy’s comments came as Amazon reported quarterly revenue of $180.2 billion, up 13% year-over-year, with AWS revenue growth accelerating to 20% — its fastest pace since 2022.

Amazon said it took a $1.8 billion severance-related charge in the quarter related to the layoffs.

Amazon joins other tech giants including Microsoft that have trimmed headcount this year while investing heavily in AI infrastructure.

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Zillow continues to be an overachiever, at least with its financial performance. 

The home search giant’s revenue has consistently beat expectations for the past two years, and Q3 was no different: Revenue was $676 million for the third quarter, up 16% year-over-year and above the company’s previous guidance, driven by the strength of its rentals and mortgage divisions.

Rentals revenue was up 41% year-over-year to $174 million, while mortgage revenue increased 36% to $53 million, according to Zillow’s shareholder letter. The company’s main revenue stream, residential, rose 7% to $435 million.

Zillow also turned a profit, netting $10 million during the quarter and sustaining its run of profitability for a third consecutive quarter.

What Zillow had to say

“Zillow’s Q3 results show how well we’re delivering on our mission to make buying, selling, financing and renting easier,” Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in a news release. “Zillow is leading the industry toward a more transparent, consumer-first future.”

The real estate portal also continues to see growth in its website traffic, hitting 250 million average monthly unique visitors in the third quarter, up 7% year-over-year.

Wacksman and CFO Jeremy Hofmann acknowledged that they are also aware of the “external noise” that has gotten louder in recent months, possibly referring to recent lawsuits involving the company and the debate over exclusive listings, including Zillow’s private listing ban.

Key numbers

Revenue: $676 million, up 16% year-over-year. Residential increased 7% to $435 million; mortgage revenue was up 36% to $53 million; and rentals revenue climbed 41% to $174 million.

Cash and investments: $1.4 billion at the end of September, up from $1.2 billion at the end of June.

Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization): $165 million in Q3, up from $127 million a year earlier.

Net income/loss: A gain of $10 million in Q3, up from $2 million the previous quarter, an improvement over its $20 million loss a year ago.

Traffic and visits: Traffic across all Zillow Group websites and apps totaled 250 million average monthly unique users in Q3, up 7% year-over-year, the company said. Total visits were 2.5 billion in Q3, up 4% year-over-year. 

Q4 outlook: For the fourth quarter, Zillow estimates revenue will be in the $645 million to $655 million range, which would represent high single-digit year-over-year growth.

The rise of AI marks a critical shift away from decades defined by information-chasing and a push for more and more compute power. 

Canva co-founder and CPO Cameron Adams refers to this dawning time as the “imagination era.” Meaning: Individuals and enterprises must be able to turn creativity into action with AI.  

Canva hopes to position itself at the center of this shift with a sweeping new suite of tools. The company’s new Creative Operating System (COS) integrates AI across every layer of content creation, creating a single, comprehensive creativity platform rather than a simple, template-based design tool.

“We’re entering a new era where we need to rethink how we achieve our goals,” said Adams. “We’re enabling people’s imagination and giving them the tools they need to take action.”

An 'engine' for creativity

Adams describes Canva’s platform as a three-layer stack: The top Visual Suite layer containing designs, images and other content; a collaborative Canva AI plane at center; and a foundational proprietary model holding it all up. 

At the heart of Canva’s strategy is its Creative Operating System (COS) underlying. This “engine,” as Adams describes it, integrates documents, websites, presentations, sheets, whiteboards, videos, social content, hundreds of millions of photos, illustrations, a rich sound library, and numerous templates, charts, and branded elements.

The COS is getting a 2.0 upgrade, but the crucial advance is the “middle, crucial layer” that fully integrates AI and makes it accessible throughout various workflows, Adams explained. This gives creative and technical teams a single dashboard for generating, editing and launching all types of content.

The underlying model is trained to understand the “complexity of design” so the platform can build out various elements — such as photos, videos, textures, or 3D graphics — in real time, matching branding style without the need for manual adjustments. It also supports live collaboration, meaning teams across departments can co-create. 

With a unified dashboard, a user working on a specific design, for instance, can create a new piece of content (say, a presentation) within the same workflow, without having to switch to another window or platform. Also, if they generate an image and aren’t pleased with it, they don’t have to go back and create from scratch; they can immediately begin editing, changing colors or tone. 

Another new capability in COS, “Ask Canva,” provides direct design advice. Users can tag @Canva to get copy suggestions and smart edits; or, they can highlight an image and direct the AI assistant to modify it or generate variants. 

“It’s a really unique interaction,” said Adams, noting that this AI design partner is always present. “It’s a real collaboration between people and AI, and we think it’s a revolutionary change.”

Other new features include a 2.0 video editor and interactive form and email design with drag-and-drop tools. Further, Canva is now incorporated with Affinity, its unified app for pro designers incorporating vector, pixel and layer workflows, and Affinity is “free forever.” 

Automating intelligence, supporting marketing

Branding is critical for enterprise; Canva has introduced new tools to help organizations consistently showcase theirs across platforms. The new Canva Grow engine integrates business objectives into the creative process so teams can workshop, create, distribute and refine ads and other materials. 

As Adams explained: “It automatically scans your website, figures out who your audience is, what assets you use to promote your products, the message it needs to send out, the formats you want to send it out in, makes a creative for you, and you can deploy it directly to the platform without having to leave Canva.”

Marketing teams can now design and launch ads across platforms like Meta, track insights as they happen and refine future content based on performance metrics. “Your brand system is now available inside the AI you’re working with,” Adams noted. 

Success metrics and enterprise adoption

The impact of Canva’s COS is reflected in notable user metrics: More than 250 million people use Canva every month, just over 29 million of which are paid subscribers. Adams reports that 41 billion designs have been created on Canva since launch, which equates to 1 billion each month. 

“If you break that down, it turns into the crazy number of 386 designs being created every single second,” said Adams. Whereas in the early days, it took roughly an hour for users to create a single design. 

Canva customers include Walmart, Disney, Virgin Voyages, Pinterest, FedEx, Expedia and eXp Realty. DocuSign, for one, reported that it unlocked more than 500 hours of team capacity and saved $300,000-plus in design hours by fully integrating Canva into its content creation. Disney, meanwhile, uses translation capabilities for its internationalization work, Adams said. 

Competitors in the design space

Canva plays in an evolving landscape of professional design tools including Adobe Express and Figma; AI-powered challengers led by Microsoft Designer; and direct consumer alternatives like Visme and Piktochart.

Adobe Express (starting at $9.99 a month for premium features) is known for its ease of use and integration with the broader Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem. It features professional-grade templates and access to Adobe’s extensive stock library, and has incorporated Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash image model and other gen AI features so that designers can create graphics via natural language prompts. Users with some design experience say they prefer its interface, controls and technical advantages over Canva (such as the ability to import high-fidelity PDFs). 

Figma (starting at $3 a month for professional plans) is touted for its real-time collaboration, advanced prototyping capabilities and deep integration with dev workflows; however, some say it has a steeper learning curve and higher-precision design tools, making it preferable for professional designers, developers and product teams working on more complex projects. 

Microsoft Designer (free version available; although a Microsoft 365 subscription starting at $9.99 a month unlocks additional features) benefits from its integration with Microsoft’s AI capabilities, Copilot layout and text generation and Dall-E powered image generation. The platform’s “Inspire Me” and “New Ideas” buttons provide design variations, and users can also import data from Excel, add 3D models from PowerPoint and access images from OneDrive. 

However, users report that its stock photos and template and image libraries are limited compared to Canva's extensive collection, and its visuals can come across as outdated. 

Canva’s advantage seems to be in its extensive template library (more than 600,000 ready-to-use) and asset library (141 million-plus stock photos, videos, graphics, and audio elements).​ Its platform is also praised for its ease of use and interface friendly to non-designers, allowing them to begin quickly without training. 

Canva has also expanded into a variety of content types — documents, websites, presentations, whiteboards, videos, and more — making its platform a comprehensive visual suite than just a graphics tool. 

Canva has four pricing tiers: Canva Free for one user; Canva Pro for $120 a year for one person; Canva Teams for $100 a year for each team member; and the custom-priced Canva Enterprise. 

Key takeaways: Be open, embrace human-AI collaboration

Canva’s COS is underpinned by Canva’s frontier model, an in-house, proprietary engine based on years of R&D and research partnerships, including the acquisition of visual AI company Leonardo. Adams notes that Canva works with top AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. 

For technology teams, Canva’s approach offers important lessons, including a commitment to openness. “There are so many models floating around,” Adams noted; it’s important for enterprises to recognize when they should work with top models and when they should develop their own proprietary ones, he advised. 

For instance, OpenAI and Anthropic recently announced integrations with Canva as a visual layer because, as Adams explained, they realized they didn’t have the capability to create the same kinds of editable designs that Canva can. This creates a mutually-beneficial ecosystem. 

Ultimately, Adams noted: “We have this underlying philosophy that the future is people and technology working together. It's not an either or. We want people to be at the center, to be the ones with the creative spark, and to use AI as a collaborator.”

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Amazon beat estimates for its third-quarter earnings with $180.2 billion in revenue, up 13% year-over-year, and earnings per share of $1.95, up from $1.43 in the year-ago period.

• Net income was $21.2 billion, up from $15.3 billion last year.
• Wall Street expected $177.7 billion in revenue, and earnings per share of $1.56.

Amazon shares were up more than 11% in after-hours trading. Growth in the company’s stock has lagged behind rivals Microsoft and Google this year.

Investors were likely pleased with a re-acceleration in Amazon’s closely watched cloud computing unit, which reported $33 billion in sales, up 20% year-over-year and topping analyst estimates. In a press release, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said AWS is “growing at a pace we haven’t seen since 2022.”

“We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity — adding more than 3.8 gigawatts in the past 12 months,” Jassy added.

The cloud growth should help Amazon counter the Wall Street narrative that its cloud business is falling behind Microsoft and Google in pursuing the AI opportunity.

• Amazon and other cloud giants are pouring billions of dollars into capital expenditures to support AI initiatives. Amazon said earlier this year it expects to increase capital expenditures to more than $100 billion in 2025.
• The company makes most of its operating profits from AWS — $11.4 billion in the third quarter, more than half Amazon’s total operating income.
• AWS was hit with a major outage last week that took down several major sites and services. It blamed an internal issue within the cloud giant’s infrastructure.

Amazon’s overall operating income reached $17.4 billion in the third quarter — flat compared to a year ago. The company had forecast operating income of $15.5 billion to $20.5 billion.

The company said its Q3 operating income reflected two special charges:

• A $2.5 billion charge related to a recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission related to Prime memberships.
• About $1.8 billion in estimated severance costs related to its massive 14,000 corporate layoff announced earlier this week.

The workforce reduction comes amid an efficiency push at Amazon. Jassy has cited a need to reduce bureaucracy and become more efficient in the new era of artificial intelligence.

• Reuters reported this week that the number of layoffs could ultimately total as many as 30,000 people, which is still a possibility as the cutbacks continue into next year. 
• Jassy told employees in a company-wide memo earlier this year that Amazon’s corporate workforce will shrink in the coming years as generative AI takes hold.

Online store sales were $67.4 billion, up 10%.

• The revenue includes sales from the company’s annual Prime Day sales event from July 8-11.
• Analysts are watching for impact from tariffs on the company’s retail business, which still makes up the largest portion of its overall revenue.
• In its Q1 earnings report in April, Amazon added “tariff and trade policies” to a list of factors that create uncertainty in its results, joining existing risks such as inflation, interest rates, and regional labor market constraints.

Here are more details from the second quarter earnings report:

Advertising: The company’s ad business brought in $17.7 billion in revenue in the quarter, up 24% from the year-ago period, topping estimates. Advertising, along with AWS, is a major profit engine.

Third-party seller services: Revenue from third-party seller services was up 12% to $42.5 billion.

Shipping costs: Amazon spent $25.4 billion on shipping in Q3, up 8%.

Physical stores: The category, which includes Whole Foods and other Amazon grocery stores, posted revenue of $5.6 billion, up 7%.

Headcount: Amazon employs 1.57 million people, up 2% year-over-year. That figure does not include seasonal and contract workers.

Prime: Subscription services revenue, which includes Prime memberships, came in at $12.6 billion, up 11%. 

Guidance: The company forecasts Q4 sales between $206 billion and $213 billion. Operating income is expected to range between $21 billion and $26 billion, compared with $21.2 billion in the year-ago quarter.

$AMZN Amazon Q3 FY25:

• Revenue +13% Y/Y to $180.2B ($2.4B beat).
• Operating margin 10% (+0.5pp Y/Y).
• EPS $1.95 ($0.39 beat).
• Q4 Guidance: ~$209.5B ($1.4B beat).

☁️ AWS:
• Revenue +20% Y/Y to $33.0B.
• Operating margin 35% (-3pp Y/Y). pic.twitter.com/2kaNIvC7oy

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Just last week, we reported on the second generation of SK hynix DDR5 memory chips with 3 GB A-die ICs where the sample reportedly uses an 8-layer PCB. As noted before, to fully exploit the new die's potential, manufacturers are expected to move to 10 or 12-layer PCBs for greater signal integrity, something that would come in handy especially when overclocked. These listings likely represent early samples, with improved designs expected once production ramps up. SK hynix hasn't officially announced the new chips yet, but the listings suggest development is well underway.

Intel has partnered with Chinese display manufacturer BOE to deploy laptop displays that can operate at 1 Hz. Yes, that is a single Hz refresh rate, meaning that static content, like images, will be dynamically represented to reduce power usage and extend laptop's battery life by up to 65%. Up until now, displays with variable refresh rate have been used, but they were mostly limited in a range from 48 Hz to any top refresh rate limit that the panel can achieve. However, Intel and BOE have now developed a technology that will manage to make the panel refresh one time per second, delivering a massive battery booster to next-generation laptops. For example, displaying static content like an image will be displayed at 1 Hz, while the panel will be boosted to its original refresh rate during scrolling and dynamic content.

That is where Multi-Frequency Display (MFD) technology steps in. Through the use of Intel graphics drivers and operating system kernel, the MDF will automatically recognize the content displayed on the user's screen to increase the frequency when needed. This approach maximizes power efficiency and prolongs systems battery life. Additionally, Intel and BOE designed SmartPower HDR technology to address excessive energy consumption and inconsistent brightness in HDR mode. This works by dynamically adjusting display voltage based on on-screen content luminosity, optimizing energy efficiency. During HDR video playback, for instance, brightness adapts to match the footage. SmartPower HDR substantially reduces power usage during darker scenes while delivering exceptional visual quality in brighter moments.

Heart Machine revealed earlier this month that it was laying off a significant number of staff and "winding down" the development of its most recent early access game, Hyper Light Breaker. This was shortly after the studio announced its upcoming stylized side-scroller action horror game, Possessor(s). Now, however, it seems as though a number of developers and staff who worked on Possessor(s) are also getting the boot, less than two weeks before the game's November 11 launch. The layoffs weren't announced by the studio itself, but rather in a series of posts on Bluesky by the affected workers. One post read: "My time at Heart Machine has sadly come to a rather abrupt end," suggesting an immediate end to their six-year stint at the studio. This is the third round of layoffs at Heart Machine in the last year, with the first coming in November 2024, shortly ahead of the launch of Hyper Light Breaker.

At the time of writing, it's unclear just how many workers were laid off, but it appears as though the layoffs will affect multiple roles in different departments. One worker who worked on PR and community and management, commented in a video that "by the time Possessor(s) comes out on November 11, I don't know that anyone who worked on it will even be at the company anymore." She also mentions that the layoffs would be effective immediately, echoing the sentiments of other posts and suggesting that some staff members have been retained until the game launches. This was confirmed by a producer who was laid off, who says that her time a Heart Machine "will come to an end after Possessor(s) ships," adding that she is too busy "literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work."

Leaders in the Pacific Northwest are largely bullish on the region’s continued economic success — but one threat to the region’s fiscal progress worries them in particular.

“What always strikes me, whether I’m in City Hall in Vancouver or Seattle or Portland, is that everybody talks about the same thing — the high cost of housing,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith at this week’s Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference in Seattle.

“It’s become an enormous barrier, not just for attracting new talent, but for enabling teachers and police officers and nurses and firefighters to live in the communities in which they serve,” he added.

Dr. Tom Lynch, president and director of Seattle’s Fred Hutch Cancer Center, was more succinct.

“My people can’t find places to live,” Lynch said during a Tuesday panel at the same event.

Those concerns are bolstered by research in a new report on the economic viability of the corridor running from Vancouver, B.C., through Seattle to Portland.

Housing costs were cited as one of the top threats to the region’s success, noting that Vancouver’s housing-cost-to-income-ratio disparity is among the worst in the world, while in Seattle median home prices relative to wages have doubled in the past 15 years. Portland reports a net out-migration as workers move to more affordable areas.

Other concerns include rising business costs and regulations, declining numbers of skilled workers and new restrictions on foreign talent immigrating to the U.S., and clean energy shortages.

“We’ve got to find ways to be able to increase the density of our housing, come up with creative solutions for allowing more families to be able to live close to where the jobs are,” Lynch said.

Smith agreed, adding, “The only way to dig ourselves out of this is to harness the power of the market through public-private partnerships, to recognize that zoning and permitting needs to be put to work to accelerate investment.”

Area tech giants have been pursuing those partnerships to tackle the challenge.

In 2019, Microsoft pledged $750 million to boost the affordable housing inventory and has helped build or retain 12,000 units in the region. Amazon in recent years has committed $3.4 billion for housing across three hubs nationally where it has large operations. The company in September celebrated a milestone of building or preserving 10,000 units in the Seattle area.

Despite the efforts, Smith said the shortage keeps worsening and in 2025, new construction starts are expected to be the lowest since before the Great Recession.

The city of Seattle, for one, is looking to sweeten a property-tax exemption deal for developers that could encourage construction and it’s also applying AI to permitting process in an effort to speed up projects.

Smith also promoted the long-held vision of a high-speed rail line in the Pacific Northwest that would make commutes much faster between growing urban hubs. But a panel Wednesday cautioned that dream is still many years out.

Going forward, updates that appear in Windows Update will utilize a simplified naming scheme designed to make it clearer to end users what is actually being downloaded.

Shares of Navan closed at $20, down 20%, in first-day trading on Thursday, indicating lackluster investor demand for the long-awaited debut.

Navan, which operates an expense management platform with an emphasis on travel, had priced shares for its offering at $25 each late Wednesday. It was formerly called TripActions, with the company pivoting to a broader platform when revenue reached zero right after the COVID pandemic hit.

The offering raised $923.1 million for the company, whose shares are trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker NAVN. It set an initial valuation of around $6.2 billion.

The move to the public markets has been a long time coming for Palo Alto, California-based Navan, which reportedly first submitted confidential paperwork for a planned offering more than three years ago.

The company had raised $1.2 billion in debt financing and $1 billion in equity funding from venture investors and credit providers, per Crunchbase data. Major venture stakeholders include Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Zeev Ventures.

Growing revenue

Navan had revenue of $329 million in the first half of 2025, up 30% year over year. Growth comes as the company has been investing in developing its agentic AI offering, Navan Cognition, to automate more cumbersome tasks around travel planning and reporting.

Still, the company remains far from profitable. Navan’s net loss for the first half of this year came in just shy of $100 million — up about 7% from the year-earlier period. The loss comes amid higher spending on both R&D and sales and marketing — common for companies on the IPO track — looking to appeal to growth-hungry investors.

Per its IPO filing, Navan has incurred net losses in each year since its inception in 2015 and “may not achieve or, if achieved, sustain profitability in the future.”

IPO activity has picked up in 2025, with Navan one of several larger recent debuts, including well-received entries by consumer fintech Klarna and blockchain lender Figure. We’re also seeing heightened buzz around potential new market entrants.

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• US IPOs Of Venture-Backed Companies In 2025

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The new hardware was unveiled this week at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington by co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The Vera Rubin platform features a single "Vera" CPU with 88 custom Arm cores and 176 threads, alongside two "Rubin" GPUs, delivering up to 100 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute performance.

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Google announced the end of support for early Nest Thermostats in a support document earlier this year that largely flew under the radar. As of October 25, first and second generation units released in 2011 and 2012, respectively, will be unpaired and removed from the Google Nest or Google Home app.

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Update 30/10/2025: It's official, ARC Raiders' launch on Steam is bigger than The Finals, as it reaches 243,386 concurrent players on Steam. Original Story: Embark Studios' third-person extraction shooter, ARC Raiders, is now live and available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S and, at least on Steam, we know that the game is having a massive launch. It's even on track to surpass what The Finals accomplished in 2024, as ARC Raiders has over 200K concurrent players on Steam at the time of this writing. Per SteamDB, an hour after it went live, it had reached 140K concurrent players […]

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UK-based studio Maze Theory (which previously made several Doctor Who VR games and Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom) and publisher Vertigo Games have just announced the release date of Thief: Legacy of Shadow, a new stealth action game coming out on December 4. Unfortunately, the game will only be available for virtual reality devices, which still comprise a minuscule portion of the overall gaming industry. That said, if you are a VR aficionado, chances are you already have a PlayStation VR2, Quest 2 or 3, or a Steam VR-compatible headset. Legacy of Shadow will bring players back to The City […]

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After releasing a bespoke self-repair manual for each of its iPhone 17 models, Apple has now made available the spare parts for the new lineup, and some of those are, unsurprisingly, quite pricey. Apple has now made available the key spare parts for the iPhone 17 lineup via its Self-Service Repair Store Before going further, do note that the self-repair manuals and these spare parts have constituted a significant component of this year's iFixit score improvements, albeit very slight ones, for the new Apple hardware. The following spare parts are now available in Apple's Self-Service Repair Store for the base […]

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NVIDIA's Jensen Huang is currently in South Korea for the APEC summit, and it seems he is having a pretty interesting day, spending time with his 'executive friends' at Samsung and Hyundai. Jensen Got a 'Little Too Comfortable' In His Visit to Korea, After Delivering the GTC 2025 Keynote This week has been a jam-packed one for NVIDIA's CEO, as Jensen delivered one of the most important keynotes of his career and then took a flight straight to South Korea for the APEC summit, where he met with Samsung's Chairman Lee Jae-yong and the President of Hyundai Motors, Chung Eui-sun. […]

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The University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is reframing what it means for its research to change the world.

In unveiling six “Grand Challenges” at its annual Research Showcase and Open House in Seattle on Wednesday, the Allen School’s leaders described a blueprint for technology that protects privacy, supports mental health, broadens accessibility, earns public trust, and sustains people and the planet.

The idea is to “organize ourselves into some more specific grand challenges that we can tackle together to have an even greater impact,” said Magdalena Balazinska, director of the Allen School and a UW computer science professor, opening the school’s annual Research Showcase and Open House.

Here are the six grand challenges:

• Anticipate and address security, privacy, and safety issues as tech permeates society.
• Make high-quality cognitive and mental health support available to all.
• Design technology to be accessible at its inception — not as an add-on.
• Design AI in a way that is transparent and equally beneficial to all.
• Build systems that can be trusted to do exactly what we want them to do, every time.
• Create technologies that sustain people and the planet.

Balazinska explained that the list draws on the strengths and interests of its faculty, who now number more than 90, including 74 on the tenure track.

With total enrollment of about 2,900 students, last year the Allen School graduated more than 600 undergrads, 150 master’s students, and 50 Ph.D. students.

The Allen School has grown so large that subfields like systems and NLP (natural language processing) risk becoming isolated “mini departments,” said Shwetak Patel, a University of Washington computer science professor. The Grand Challenges initiative emerged as a bottom-up effort to reconnect these groups around shared, human-centered problems. 

Patel said the initiative also encourages collaborations on campus beyond the computer science school, citing examples like fetal heart rate monitoring with UW Medicine.

A serial entrepreneur and 2011 MacArthur Fellow, Patel recalled that when he joined UW 18 years ago, his applied and entrepreneurial focus was seen as unconventional. Now it’s central to the school’s direction. The grand challenges initiative is “music to my ears,” Patel said.

In tackling these challenges, the Allen School has a unique advantage against many other computer science schools. Eighteen faculty members currently hold what’s known as “concurrent engagements” — formally splitting time between the Allen School and companies and organizations such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2).

This is a “superpower” for the Allen School, said Patel, who has a concurrent engagement at Google. These arrangements, he explained, give faculty and students access to data, computing resources, and real-world challenges by working directly with companies developing the most advanced AI systems.

“A lot of the problems we’re trying to solve, you cannot solve them just at the university,” Patel said, pointing to examples such as open-source foundation models and AI for mental-health research that depend on large-scale resources unavailable in academia alone.

These roles can also stretch professors thin. “When somebody’s split, there’s only so much mental energy you can put into the university,” Patel said. Many of those faculty members teach just one or two courses a year, requiring the school to rely more on lecturers and teaching faculty.

Still, he said, the benefits outweigh the costs. “I’d rather have 50% of somebody than 0% of somebody, and we’ll make it work,” he said. “That’s been our strategy.”

The Madrona Prize, an annual award presented at the event by the Seattle-based venture capital firm, went to a project called “Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward.” The system makes AI chatbots more personal by giving them a “curiosity reward,” motivating the AI to actively learn about a user’s traits during a conversation to create more personalized interactions.

On the subject of industry collaborations, the lead researcher on the prize-winning project, UW Ph.D. student Yanming Wan, conducted the research while working as an intern at Google DeepMind. (See full list of winners and runners-up below.)

At the evening poster session, graduate students filled the rooms to showcase their latest projects — including new advances in artificial intelligence for speech, language, and accessibility.

DopFone: Doppler-based fetal heart rate monitoring using commodity smartphones

DopFone transforms phones into fetal heart rate monitors. It uses the phone speaker to transmit a continuous sine wave and uses the microphone to record the reflections. It then processes the audio recordings to estimate fetal heart rate. It aims to be an alternative to doppler ultrasounds that require trained staff, which aren’t practical for frequent remote use.

“The major impact would be in the rural, remote and low-resource settings where access to such maternity care is less — also called maternity care deserts,” said Poojita Garg, a second-year PhD student.

CourseSLM: A Chatbot Tool for Supporting Instructors and Classroom Learning

This custom-built chatbot is designed to help students stay focused and build real understanding rather than relying on quick shortcuts. The system uses built-in guardrails to keep learners on task and counter the distractions and over-dependence that can come with general large language models.

Running locally on school devices, the chatbot helps protect student data and ensures access even without Wi-Fi.

“We’re focused on making sure students have access to technology, and know how to use it properly and safely,” said Marquiese Garrett, a sophomore at the UW.

Efficient serving of SpeechLMs with VoxServe

VoxServe makes speech-language models run more efficiently. It uses a standardized abstraction layer and interface that allows many different models to run through a single system. Its key innovation is a custom scheduling algorithm that optimizes performance depending on the use case.

The approach makes speech-based AI systems faster, cheaper, and easier to deploy, paving the way for real-time voice assistants and other next-gen speech applications.

“I thought it would be beneficial if we can provide this sort of open-source system that people can use,” said Keisuke Kamahori, third-year Ph.D. student at the Allen School.

ConvFill: Model collaboration for responsive conversational voice agents

ConvFill is a lightweight conversational model designed to reduce the delay in voice-based large language models. The system responds quickly with short, initial answers, then fills in more detailed information as larger models complete their processing.

By combining small and large models in this way, ConvFill delivers faster responses while conserving tokens and improving efficiency — an important step toward more natural, low-latency conversational AI.

“This is an exciting way to think about how we can combine systems together to get the best of both worlds,” said Zachary Englhardt, a third-year Ph.D. student. “It’s an exciting way to look at problems.”

ConsumerBench: Benchmarking generative AI on end-user devices

Running generative AI locally — on laptops, phones, or other personal hardware — introduces new system-level challenges in fairness, efficiency, and scheduling.

ConsumerBench is a benchmarking framework that tests how well generative AI applications perform on consumer hardware when multiple AI models run at the same time. The open-source tool helps researchers identify bottlenecks and improve performance on consumer devices.

There are a number of benefits to running models locally: “There are privacy purposes — a user can ask for questions related to email or private content, and they can do it efficiently and accurately,” said Yile Gu, a third-year Ph.D. student at the Allen School.

Designing Chatbots for Sensitive Health Contexts: Lessons from Contraceptive Care in Kenyan Pharmacies

A project aimed at improving contraceptive access and guidance for adolescent girls and young women in Kenya by integrating low-fidelity chatbots into healthcare settings. The goal is to understand how chatbots can support private, informed conversations and work effectively within pharmacies.

“The fuel behind this whole project is that my team is really interested in improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations,” said Lisa Orii, a fifth-year Ph.D. student.

See more about the research showcase here. Here’s the list of winning projects.

Madrona Prize Winner: “Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward” Yanming Wan, Jiaxing Wu, Marwa Abdulhai, Lior Shani, Natasha Jaques

Runner up: “VAMOS: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Model for Capability-Modulated and Steerable Navigation” Mateo Guaman Castro, Sidharth Rajagopal, Daniel Gorbatov, Matt Schmittle, Rohan Baijal, Octi Zhang, Rosario Scalise, Sidharth Talia, Emma Romig, Celso de Melo, Byron Boots, Abhishek Gupta

Runner up: “Dynamic 6DOF VR reconstruction from monocular videos” Baback Elmieh, Steve Seitz, Ira-Kemelmacher, Brian Curless

People’s Choice: “MolmoAct” Jason Lee, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang, Yuquan Deng, Shuo Liu, Boyang Li, Bohan Fang, Jieyu Zhang, Yi Ru Wang, Sangho Lee, Winson Han, Wilbert Pumacay, Angelica Wu, Rose Hendrix, Karen Farley, Eli VanderBilt, Ali Farhadi, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna

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Big and glossy, LG's 32-inch OLED UltraGear 32GX850A-B gaming monitor enjoys a $500 discount.

Shenzhen authorities have dismantled a counterfeit chip operation that allegedly sold reclaimed and rebranded integrated circuits as premium imports from Infineon and others.

The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI router integrates an NPU to make your network way smarter.

The latest AMD Radeon graphics driver skips older GPUs for feature updates and drops functionality from last-gen flagships.

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Perplexity Patents leverages advanced AI to transform complex patent research into a conversational, accessible experience, democratizing IP intelligence for innovators worldwide.

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AI breast cancer screening, powered by MedCognetics and NVIDIA, is bringing critical early detection capabilities to rural India via mobile clinics.

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The burgeoning demand for data center capacity, fueled by the insatiable appetite for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, is encountering a significant impediment: a critical shortage of skilled labor. CNBC’s Kate Rogers reported on this burgeoning issue, highlighting how the construction and operational needs of these vital infrastructure hubs are being hampered by a lack […]

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The recent MIT “State of AI in Business 2025” report, widely circulated and often misinterpreted, claims a staggering 95% failure rate for enterprise AI projects. Far from signaling AI’s inherent flaws, this statistic, as dissected by Y Combinator partners Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, Diana Hu, and Jared Friedman on their Lightcone podcast, illuminates a profound […]

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Legal technology company Legora raised $150 million to expand its AI-powered platform used by lawyers for research, drafting, and document review.

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Google's new initiative in Brazil demonstrates how AI is becoming indispensable for scaling diverse carbon removal technologies, from methane capture to reforestation.

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The Prompting Company raises $6.5M to develop its generative AI advertising platform, which inserts brand mentions into AI chatbot conversations.

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Ten years into a dream to connect Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Portland via a high-speed rail line, stakeholders and backers of the mega-project said Wednesday that they’re still very much onboard — and to prepare for a long trip.

With a lengthy and uncertain timeline ahead, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, a speaker at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference in Seattle, cautioned many of those in attendance that they likely won’t live long enough to see high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest.

“When you build big things, they cost big money,” LaHood said. “It took us 50 years to build the interstate system.”

LaHood said the key is to “get on board” now so that “our children and grandchildren” will reap the benefits.

At Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s annual event this week, much of the focus was on how to strengthen the cross-border partnership between three growing cities and numerous locales in between. Leaders discussed ideas around innovation, housing affordability, sustainability, and economic development. They signed a Memorandum of Reaffirmation to solidify commitments.

And Wednesday was about the enhanced transportation connectivity that could help drive it all, and the work that lies ahead in building a coalition of public and political support across the region, securing funding, jumpstarting planning, and more. Even producing videos like the new one below is part of the massive outreach under way.

Former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s chair, said that a decade ago, high-speed rail was just an idea. The next decade can be a defining one.

“You would have thought we were thinking of doing something in outer space by the reaction,” she said. “Today, it is much more than an idea, and we are actually moving forward. While we do have a long way to go, as you well know, we’re funding the first phase of planning built on one of the most unique coalitions in North America.”

Envisioning a mega-region akin to Silicon Valley, in which Vancouver, Seattle and Portland are each only an hour apart, Gregoire highlighted the possibilities that could come with high-speed mobility.

“A UW student can intern in Vancouver, a family in Puget Sound can explore a job in Portland, and a cancer researcher in Vancouver can get home for dinner after a shift in Seattle,” she said. “It’s a new way of living, working and connecting, one that expands what’s possible for everyone who calls Cascadia home.”

The pace to make the dream a reality has been anything but high-speed.

In 2017, Microsoft — which has an office in downtown Vancouver — gave $50,000 to a $300,000 effort led by Washington state to study a high-speed train proposal. In 2021, officials from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia signed a memorandum of understanding to form a committee to coordinate the plan.

Last year, the Federal Railroad Administration awarded the Washington State Department of Transportation $49.7 million to develop a service development plan for Cascadia High-Speed Rail. A timeline on WSDOT’s website points to 2028 for estimated completion of that plan, and for 2029 and beyond it simply says, “future phases to be determined.”

Cascadia is not alone in its quest for high-speed rail.

LaHood, a Republican cabinet member in the Obama administration, recalled the former president’s commitment to rail transportation. He said the Trump administration “clawing back” $4 billion in funding for California’s high-speed rail project between San Francisco and Los Angeles should not be considered a “death knell,” despite challenges in that state.

LaHood pointed to Brightline train projects in Florida, connecting Orlando and Miami, and Las Vegas, with a plan to offer high-speed connectivity to Southern California. Another plan in Texas would connect Houston and Dallas. All are evidence, he said, that this mode of transportation is what Americans want in order to avoid clogged highways and airports.

“Once the politicians catch on to what the people want, boom, you get the kind of rail transportation that people are clamoring for,” LaHood said.

Here are highlights from other speakers at the conference on Wednesday:

• WSDOT Secretary Julie Meredith pointed to big Seattle transportation infrastructure projects that transformed the city, including the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and construction of the SR 99 waterfront tunnel, as well as the new SR 520 floating bridge. Even as work will continue for years connecting communities via Link light rail, Meredith said, “I so often describe this program as one I’m most excited about, because it’s an opportunity for us to so fundamentally transform our region up and down the I-5 corridor,” Meredith said.
• Chelsea Levy, Cascadia High-Speed Rail project manager, said the region can expect a 25% increase in population, or about 3.4 million more people, by 2050. “This pace and magnitude of growth really requires us to act,” Levy said. Among other things, WSDOT will need to integrate with B.C. and Oregon transportation networks and, Levy stressed, the scale and complexity of the project will require a streamlining of permitting processes across the 345-mile mega-region.
• Hana Doubrava, a Vancouver-based corporate affairs director at Microsoft, leads the Cascadia initiative for the tech giant. She said the company’s support is not just symbolic, and that Microsoft believes modern, efficient transit and transportation options are essential for improved quality of life. “Cascadia is all about partnerships and relationships — despite the current geopolitics or baseball scores,” she said in a nod to Canada’s team, the Toronto Blue Jays, denying the Seattle Mariners a trip to the World Series.

Related:

• Microsoft’s Brad Smith makes nuanced AI pitch: Huge potential, real concerns, and a Jon Stewart clip
• Longterm vision for Seattle-Portland-Vancouver mega-region will require a ‘consensus on growth’
• Study: High-speed rail connecting Seattle to Vancouver BC would spur $355B in economic growth

Could you use a new gaming laptop? If so, there's a great deal available on Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora kitted with the latest-generation CPU and GPU hardware from Intel and NVIDIA, respectively. Or you could wait for the inevitable Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts to come into view, but why wait when you can score a bargain right now? If

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), primarily based at Curtin University in Australia, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way's galactic plane ever assembled. Rather than the starry, luminous band we're more familiar with, the latest images show a vibrant tapestry

With streaming content being watched on bigger displays than ever before, Google wants to ensure that older, lower-resolution videos (think 480p and 720p) don't look janky on your fancy new 4K TV. YouTube is rolling out a suite of creator tools to address that and chief among them is the use of AI to breathe new life into its vast archive

If your router isn't using artificial intelligence in some capacity, is it really a router? The answer is yes, but be that as it may, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) isn't leaving anything to chance with its new flagship Wi-Fi 7 model for gamers, the Rapture GT-BE19000AI. Billed as the "world's first AI gaming router," the device sports a built-in

NVIDIA can add to its long list of accomplishments becoming the first publicly traded company to reach and surpass a $5 trillion market cap as it rides the AI chip boom to new heights. Equally impressive, the sky high valuation comes just a few months after NVIDIA breached the $4 trillion mark, surpassing Apple's previous record of $3.915

Almost 20 years on from the first autonomous propellant transfer and battery replacement, the service may be commercially viable.

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More than 800 games and applications feature RTX technologies, and each week new games integrating NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, and advanced ray-traced effects are released or announced, delivering the definitive PC experience for GeForce RTX players. Last week, The Outer Worlds 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, and Jurassic World Evolution 3 all launched with day-one support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation.

This week, even more DLSS 4 titles join the ever-expanding catalogue of games that run and play best on GeForce RTX, starting with ARC Raiders, which has just launched today with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, NVIDIA Reflex, and ray tracing. Later this week, Duet Night Abyss launches with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and Battlefield 6's battle royale mode is available now, accelerated by DLSS 4. Looking to the future, AION 2, CINDER CITY and Directive 8020 are all launching in 2026 with DLSS 4, and we've got new trailers for each that you can check out below.

SAPPHIRE Technology is rolling out the EDGE AI Series, a new line of ultra-compact AI mini PCs designed to bring next-level performance and real-time intelligence to everything from content creation and office productivity to edge analytics and smart automation. Following a soft launch earlier this year, the SAPPHIRE EDGE AI Series is now preparing for full market availability.

At the heart of each system is the powerful AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processor, combining a high-efficiency multicore CPU, AMD Radeon 800M graphics, and a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) delivering up to 50 TOPS of AI acceleration-all in a sleek, highly compact footprint. From intelligent automation in offices and factories to local AI inference in healthcare and education, this platform is designed for professionals who need real-time AI performance with ultimate flexibility.

Get ready, raiders - the wait is over. ARC Raiders is dropping onto GeForce NOW and bringing the fight from orbit to the screen. To celebrate the launch, gamers can score ARC Raiders for free with the purchase of a 12-month Ultimate membership - a bundle packed with everything needed to jump into the resistance. This week also brings 10 games, including the next big adventure in The Outer Worlds 2, the mystical new "Visions of Eternity" expansion for Guild Wars 2 and Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, a clever classic from Capcom. Sofia, Bulgaria, is the latest region to get GeForce RTX 5080-class power, with Amsterdam and Montreal coming up next. Stay tuned to GFN Thursday for updates as more regions upgrade to Blackwell RTX. Those who want to follow along can track latest progress on the server rollout page.

The Cloud Suits Up
In ARC Raiders, survival means banding together against overwhelming odds. Set in a retro‑futuristic world under siege, the game blends squad-based strategy with explosive firefights wrapped in a striking '80s-inspired sci-fi style. The story is simple but relentless: mysterious mechanical invaders, the ARC, rain down from orbit to strip Earth bare. Battling them takes teamwork, scavenged weapons and quick thinking across sprawling environments. Every encounter feels like a desperate stand where improvisation and cooperation turn the tide.

MicroProse and Not Knowing Corporation are thrilled to announce that Cleared Hot, the physics-fueled helicopter shooter with tactical flair (and a questionable regard for gravity), will launch into Steam Early Access on November 20, 2025.

Get ready to rain down chaos, sling debris, rescue (or accidentally drop) your squad, and pick up just about anything that isn't bolted to the ground. Cleared Hot brings classic chopper combat into the modern era with fully physics-based gameplay, upgradable helicopters, and the most versatile rope-and-magnet system ever installed on military hardware.

October is a busy month for Endorfy, packed with exciting new releases. After expanding its lineup with a microphone and headphones in the unique Alt Gray color, and just two days after unveiling the white Arx series case - the brand is launching the Zephyr 92 fan. Designed with smaller PC cases in mind, the Zephyr proves that effective cooling doesn't always come in large sizes - sometimes, it's all about smart design. The result is a perfect blend of solid craftsmanship and high performance, wrapped in a clean, minimalist form and offered at an accessible price.

Performance that fits in your hand
At first glance, the Zephyr 92 looks like a classic black fan in a compact size. But take a closer look, and you'll see that every detail, from the blades to the frame, is engineered for maximum efficiency. The result? Smooth airflow and effective cooling, even in small PC cases where every millimeter counts.

LG Display today reported unaudited earnings results based on consolidated K-IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) for the three-month period ending September 30, 2025.

• Revenues in the third quarter of 2025 increased by 25% to KRW 6,957 billion from KRW 5,587 billion in the second quarter of 2025 and increased by 2% from KRW 6,821 billion in the third quarter of 2024.
• Operating profit in the third quarter of 2025 stood at KRW 431 billion. This compares with the operating loss of KRW 116 billion in the second quarter of 2025 and with the operating loss of KRW 81 billion in the third quarter of 2024.
• EBITDA in the third quarter of 2025 increased by 35% to KRW 1,424 billion from KRW 1,054 billion in the second quarter of 2025 and increased by 23% from KRW 1,162 billion in the third quarter of 2024.
• Net profit in the third quarter of 2025 was KRW 1 billion, compared with the net profit of 891 billion in the second quarter of 2025 and with the net loss of KRW 338 billion in the third quarter of 2024.

Western Digital has confirmed it is investigating potential problems with some of its older SMR-based hard drives, following reports from multiple data recovery firms about unusually high failure rates. The affected models include 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB, and 6 TB WD Blue and Red drives (model numbers WD*0EZAZ, WD*0EDAZ, and WD*0EFAX) released around 2020, products that previously landed the company in a class-action lawsuit over undisclosed use of SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology. Tom's Hardware reports that Western Digital said in a statement to Heise Online that it takes the findings seriously and that its engineering teams have launched an internal review.

According to 030 Datenrettung Berlin GmbH, which first published the failure analysis, the issue could have its origins in design-level limitations of SMR technology in lower-capacity consumer drives. SMR increases areal density by overlapping data tracks allowing up to 25% more capacity per platter. However, rewriting data can require adjacent tracks to be rewritten as well, introducing latency and potential instability. These shortcomings have long made SMR unsuitable for certain workloads such as RAID or ZFS arrays. Western Digital's earlier decision not to disclose SMR use in these drives led to a $2.7 million lawsuit settlement in 2021. Now, data recovery labs warn that the same models could suffer physical damage and data loss over time. Users with WD Blue or Red drives in the 2-6 TB range from 2020 onward are advised to check their hardware, as early failure symptoms may include unusual clicking or grinding noises from the platters.

After more than a decade of focusing exclusively on mobile platforms, Samsung is finally bringing its Samsung Internet browser to Windows-based PCs. The company announced today that a beta version of the Chromium-based browser will be available for Windows 11 and Windows 10 systems running version 1809 or newer, starting October 30, 2025, in the United States and Korea. It is a significant decision for Samsung, which has maintained a mobile-first approach since the browser's inception, essentially leaving desktop users out in the cold while millions enjoyed the experience on their Galaxy devices. Additionally, it shows that Samsung may venture into more applications as the local AI integration takes off.

The desktop version is designed to create a unified browsing ecosystem across Samsung's product lineup, letting users carry their digital experience seamlessly between phones and computers. Users who log in with their Samsung Account will have their bookmarks, browsing history, and saved passwords synchronized through Samsung Pass, which should make authentication and form filling straightforward across devices. The browser also brings intelligent features powered by Galaxy AI, including Browsing Assist, which can summarize web pages and translate content on the fly. For those switching between their Galaxy phone and PC, the browser will prompt them to pick up where they left off, eliminating the hassle of hunting down tabs across different devices.

onsemi's vGaN technology is a breakthrough power semiconductor technology that sets a new benchmark for efficiency, power density and ruggedness for the age of AI and electrification. Developed and manufactured at onsemi's fab in Syracuse, NY, onsemi holds over 130 global patents covering a range of fundamental process, device design, manufacturing and systems innovations for vertical GaN technology.

"Vertical GaN is a game-changer for the industry and cements onsemi's leadership in energy efficiency and innovation. As electrification and AI reshape industries, efficiency has become the new benchmark that defines the measure of progress. The addition of vertical GaN to our power portfolio gives our customers the ultimate toolkit to deliver unmatched performance. With this breakthrough, onsemi is defining the future where energy efficiency and power density are the currency of competitiveness." Dinesh Ramanathan, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy, onsemi.

Corsair, maker of award-winning gaming peripherals, today revealed their first fighting game-focused controller, the Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Controller, featuring Corsair MGX Hyperdrive magnetic switches, Rapid Trigger and FlashTap SOCD technology.

"With gamers demanding faster, more responsive inputs, building a controller that utilizes our fastest, most responsive switches was an obvious play," said Tobias Brinkmann, Vice President and General Manager of Gaming Peripherals. "The Novablade Pro is a leap in input innovation, fusing MGX Hyperdrive magnetic switches with cutting-edge performance features like Rapid Trigger and FlashTap. For both fighting game professionals and aspiring players aiming for the top, chasing precise timing windows that last mere milliseconds are key - and Novablade Pro has the features they need for their pursuit of reliable frame perfection."

Reference-design AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards come with USB type-C ports on the cards that offer DisplayPort 2.1 passthrough and USB power delivery up to PD 3.0 standards of 30 W. While the port doesn't push USB data, it has wiring for DisplayPort and power delivery, letting you connect certain kinds of monitors that use a single USB-C connection for both display input and power. AMD just disabled the latter functionality of this port.

The AMD Software Adrenalin 25.10.2 WHQL drivers apparently disable USB power delivery from this port on reference-design RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards. The port continues to provide DisplayPort passthrough, but without power delivery, so your USB monitor might need its power brick plugged in, or to use a USB power delivery shunt. Those for whom this is a dealbreaker are recommended by AMD to switch back to AMD drivers as old as 25.3.1 to reliably use USB-PD from this port.

Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, introduces the industry's first DDR5 7200 RDIMM as a major upgrade to its DDR5 series, delivering superior performance and the largest 64 GB single-module capacity in the industrial market, driving innovation across the embedded and edge AI segments.

The DDR5 7200 series delivers a data transfer rate of 7200 MT/s, representing a 12.5% increase in speed, and offers capacities ranging from 8 GB to 64 GB, with RDIMM models available from 16 GB to 64 GB. It meets the requirements of enterprise data centers and edge AI servers, while also supporting the growing need for on-premises confidential computing, enabling sensitive data to be processed locally with stronger security and privacy protection.

After the success of DY470, darkFlash presents a new interpretation of compact PC design. The DY460 carries the same signature style while reimagining the structure for smarter airflow, space efficiency, and modern aesthetics. It is made for gamers who seek balance between performance and elegance.

Compact Form, Same Signature DNA
DY460 continues the design spirit of DY470 preserving the three-sided panoramic glass concept that has become a favorite among builders. While the overall footprint is reduced by 23%, the case still offers full-size compatibility, supporting ATX motherboards, high-end GPUs, and advanced cooling setups.

Here’s what your PC needs to run Resident Evil Requiem Capcom has officially released their PC system requirements for Resident Evil Requiem, which will be arriving on Steam on February 27th 2026. On Steam, Capcom has confirmed that the game will utilise Denuvo’s Anti-Tamper Technology. Furthermore, the game will support Steam Family Sharing. Requiem’s PC […]

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Sapphire is using the power of Ryzen to fuel its new Edge AI Mini PCs Sapphire has just launched a new range of EDGE AI mini PCs, delivering compact performance with AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series processors. These mini PCs support up to 96GB of DDR5 memory onboard and can feature up to 12 CPU […]

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AMD appears to have axed “New Game Support” for its RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs Based on the release notes for AMD’s new AMD Software 25.10.2 driver, the company has dropped “New Game Support” and “Expanded Vulkan Extension” support for its older RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 graphics cards. This means that users of […]

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Randy Pitchford is once again stirring discussion after claiming that gaming has yet to see its “Citizen Kane” moment. Speaking in a Shacknews interview about Borderlands 4, the developer reflected on the massive scale of AAA games before suggesting the industry hasn’t yet produced a single defining masterpiece.

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It was 2021 and Jonathan Rat was tired of seeing his wife, a dentist, struggle to maintain the tech stack at her practice.

Rat, who had served as a product manager at companies including Uber, Meta and SurveyMonkey, dug into the problem and discovered that “most of the software used in the industry” was more than 20 years old and still required physical services onsite.

“Most lacked integration with other platforms, were slow and buggy, and impossible to train new employees on,” he recalls.

So Rat teamed up with Benjamin Kolin, a former director of engineering at Uber, to start Archy, an AI-powered platform that aims “to put dental practices on autopilot.” The pair previously led the rebuilding of Uber’s payment platform that’s still in use today.

“I realized there was a massive need and opportunity for a modern, cloud-based software platform and set out to build that,” Rat told Crunchbase News. “I also realized bigger tech players have been building software for the larger healthcare market but overlooked the $500 billion dental industry.”

And now, Archy has just raised $20 million in Series B funding to help it grow even more, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. TCV led the financing, which also included participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, Entrée Capital and 25 practicing dentists who wrote checks as angel investors. The raise brings Archy’s total funding to date to $47 million, Rat said.

The company raised a $15 million Series A led by Entrée Capital almost exactly one year ago. Rat confirmed the Series B was an up round, but declined to disclose Archy’s valuation.

All-in-one tool

Archy claims to replace more than five existing tools to handle scheduling, charting, billing, imaging, insurance, payments, staffing, messaging and reporting “from one login.”

It is now building AI agents “to handle the busywork” such as checking eligibility, filing and following up on claims, writing notes, managing patient communications and scheduling, and “turning raw practice data into clear answers,” according to Rat.

The startup processes more than $100 million in payments annually across 45 states and has seen roughly 300% year-over-year growth, he said. It currently serves 2.5 million patients and has processed over 35 million X-rays through its platform.

The company claims that mid-sized dental practices report saving around 80 hours a month by using its technology, and are able to avoid “big hardware costs.” For example, Rat said that one practice saved about $50,000 in its first year of using Archy.

Dual-revenue model

San Jose, California-based Archy operates on a dual-revenue model that combines subscription-based fees with payment processing services, and offers tiered monthly subscription packages. In addition to its subscription fees, Archy serves as a merchant processor for its clients, generating revenue from a percentage of payment transactions processed through the platform.

“This hybrid approach allows us to remain aligned with our clients’ success while providing flexible options that scale with their business needs,” Rat told Crunchbase News.

The company plans to use its new capital to “hire aggressively” across its engineering, AI and go-to-market teams. Presently, it has 57 employees. It plans to expand internationally starting in 2026.

Austin Levitt, partner at TCV, told Crunchbase News via email that his firm had been looking for a way to invest in the dental space “for a long time” but didn’t find a company that was “appropriately tackling the root of the problem — the core PMS (practice management systems)” until it came across Archy.

He added: “We consistently heard that Archy was supremely easy to use, requiring almost no training in contrast to others, providing a seamless ‘iPhone-like’ experience, and reducing what took 10 clicks in other software to one or none in Archy.”

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Live-shopping startup Whatnot plans to grow its new Seattle outpost following a $225 million funding round announced this week.

The company aims to hire more than 75 employees in the region over the next six months — tripling its current local headcount — across product, engineering, and related roles.

Whatnot opened its downtown Seattle office earlier this year. The Los Angeles-based company, now valued at $11.5 billion (up from $5 billion a year ago), said the Seattle expansion is one of its largest talent investments to date.

Founded in 2019, Whatnot’s platform mixes e-commerce and livestream entertainment. Sellers host live video shows on the Whatnot app or website, auctioning or selling products in real time. Buyers can watch, chat, and bid directly during live streams.

The New York Times described the trend as “QVC for the TikTok era.” Whatnot competes against the likes of TikTok (TikTok Shop) and Seattle-based e-commerce giant Amazon (Amazon Live).

Whatnot facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers, and handles payments, logistics, and safety features. The company earns revenue by taking a commission — typically around 8% — on sales made by sellers ranging from independent entrepreneurs to established retailers.

Whatnot more than doubled live sales on its platform this year, to $6 billion. Buyers spend more than 80 minutes per day on Whatnot’s live shows, according to the company. Whatnot is not profitable.

Some of its fastest-growing categories include beauty, women’s fashion, handbags, electronics, antiques, coins, golf, snacks, and live plants.

The company’s Seattle office focuses on product and engineering, including areas such as machine learning, marketplace integrity, and trust & safety. Whatnot has 900 employees across its workforce.

Dan Bear, vice president of engineering, and Kelda Murphy, vice president of talent acquisition, are both based in Seattle. Bear previously opened Seattle offices for Snap, Hulu, and CloudKitchens.

Whatnot is one of more than 130 companies that operate satellite offices in the Seattle region, tapping into the area’s technical talent pool.

The company has 31 open positions on its jobs page. It is hosting an engineering and product networking event in Seattle on Nov. 4.

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For years, I told bloggers the same thing: make your content easy enough for toddlers and drunk adults to understand. 

That was my rule of thumb. 

If a five-year-old can follow what you’ve written and someone paying half-attention can still find what they need on your site, you’re doing something right.

But the game has changed. It’s no longer just about toddlers and drunk adults. 

You’re now writing for large language models (LLMs) quietly scanning, interpreting, and summarizing your work inside AI search results.

I used to believe that great writing and solid SEO were all it took to succeed. What I see now:

Clarity beats everything. 

The blogs winning today aren’t simply well-written or packed with keywords. They’re clean, consistent, and instantly understandable to readers and machines alike.

Blogging isn’t dying. It’s moving from being a simple publishing tool to a real brand platform that supports off-site efforts more than ever before.

You can’t just drop a recipe or travel guide online and expect it to rank using the SEO tactics of the past. 

Bloggers must now think of their site as an ecosystem where everything connects – posts, internal links, author bios, and signals of external authority all reinforce each other.

When I audit sites, the difference between those that thrive and those that struggle almost always comes down to focus. 

The successful ones treat their blogs like living systems that grow smarter, clearer, and more intentional with time.

But if content creators want to survive what’s coming, they need to build their sites for toddlers, drunk adults, and LLMs.

In this article, bloggers will learn how to do the following:

• Understand the current blogging climate and why clarity now matters more than ever.
• Adapt their content for AI Overviews, LLMs, and emerging retrieval systems.
• Use recency bias and “last updated” signals to strengthen visibility.
• Build a recognizable brand that LLMs can cite and retrieve with confidence.
• See why professional SEO audits are one of the smartest investments bloggers can make.
• Prepare for the next five years of AI-driven search with practical, proven strategies.

The 2026 blogging climate: Clarity amid chaos

Let’s be honest: the blogging world feels a little shaky right now.

One day, traffic is steady, and the next day, it’s down 40% after an update no one saw coming. 

Bloggers are watching AI Overviews and “AI Mode” swallow up clicks that used to come straight to their sites. Pinterest doesn’t drive what it once did, and social media traffic in general is unpredictable.

It’s not your imagination. The rules of discovery have changed.

We’ve entered a stage where Google volatility is the norm, not the exception. 

Core updates hit harder, AI summaries are doing the talking, and creators are realizing that search is no longer just about keywords and backlinks. It’s about context, clarity, and credibility.

But here’s the good news: the traffic that matters is still out there. It just presents differently. 

The strongest blogs I work with are seeing direct traffic and returning visitors climb. 

People remember them, type their names into search, open their newsletters, and click through from saved bookmarks. That’s not an accident – that’s the result of clarity and consistency.

If your site clearly explains who you are, what you offer, and how your content fits together, you’re building what I call resilient visibility. 

It’s the kind of presence that lasts through algorithm swings, because your audience and Google both understand your purpose.

Think of it this way: the era of chasing random keyword wins is over. 

The bloggers who’ll still be standing in five years are the ones who organize their sites like smart libraries: easy to navigate, full of expertise, and built for readers who come back again and again.

AI systems reward that same clarity. 

They want content that’s connected, consistent, and confident about its subject matter. 

That’s how you show up in AI Overviews, People Also Ask carousels, or Gemini-generated results.

In short, confusion costs you clicks, but clarity earns you staying power.

Takeaway

• The blogging climate might feel chaotic, but the strategy hasn’t changed as much as people think. 
• Focus on clarity, structure, and user trust. Build a brand that people – and AI – can easily recognize and rely on.

Dig deeper: Chunk, cite, clarify, build: A content framework for AI search

The AI acceleration: From search to retrieval

A few years ago, SEO was all about chasing rankings. 

You picked your keywords, wrote your post, built some links, and hoped to land on page one. 

Simple enough. But that world doesn’t exist anymore.

Today, we’re in what can best be called the retrieval era. 

AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity don’t list links. They retrieve answers from the brands, authors, and sites they trust most.

Duane Forrester said it best – search is shifting from “ranking” to “retrieval.” 

Instead of asking, “Where do I rank?” creators should be asking, “Am I retrievable?” 

That mindset shift changes everything about how we create content.

Mike King expanded on this idea, introducing the concept of relevance engineering. 

Search engines and LLMs now use context to understand relevance, not just keywords. They look at:

• How consistently you cover topics.
• How well your pages connect.
• Whether you’re seen as an authority in your niche.

This is where structure and clarity start paying off. 

AI systems want to understand who you are and where you stand. 

They learn that from your internal links, schema, author bios, and consistent topical focus. 

When everything aligns, you’re no longer just ranking in search – you’re becoming a known entity that AI can pull from.

I’ve seen this firsthand during site audits. Blogs with strong internal structures and clear topical authority are far more likely to be cited as sources in AI Overviews and LLM results. 

You’re removing confusion and teaching both users and models to associate your brand with specific areas of expertise.

Takeaway

• Stop worrying about ranking higher. Start making yourself easier to retrieve. 
• Build a site that clearly tells Google and AI who you are, what you offer, and why your content deserves to be cited.

Understanding recency bias: Why freshness is your friend

Here’s something I see a lot in my audits: two posts covering the same topic, both written by experienced bloggers, both technically sound. Yet one consistently outperforms the other. 

The difference? One shows a clear “Last updated” date, and the other doesn’t.

That tiny detail matters more than most people realize.

Research from Metehan Yesilyurt confirms what many SEOs have suspected for a while: LLMs and AI-driven search results favor recency, and it’s already being exploited in the name of research.

It’s built into their design. When AI models have multiple possible answers to choose from, they often prefer newer or recently refreshed content. 

This is recency bias, and it’s reshaping both AI search and Google’s click-through behavior.

We see the same pattern inside the traditional SERPs. 

Posts that display visible “Last updated” dates tend to earn higher click-through rates. 

People – and algorithms – trust fresh information.

That’s why one of the first things I check in an audit is how Google is interpreting the date structure on a blog. 

Is it recognizing the correct updated date, or is it stuck on the original publish date? 

Sometimes the fix is simple: remove the old “published on” markup and make sure the updated timestamp is clearly visible and crawlable. 

Other times, the page’s HTML or schema sends conflicting signals that confuse Google, and those need to be cleaned up.

When Google or an LLM can’t identify the freshness of your content, you’re handing visibility to someone else who communicates that freshness better.

How do you prevent this? Don’t hide your updates. Celebrate them.

When you update recipes, add new travel information, or test a product, update your post and make the date obvious. 

This will tell readers and AI systems, “This content is alive and relevant.”

Now, that being said, Google does keep a history of document versions. 

The average post may have dozens of copies stored, and Google can easily compare the recently changed version to its repository of past versions. 

Avoid making small changes that do not add value to users or republishing to a new date years later to fake relevancy. Google specifically calls that out in its guidelines.

Takeaway

• Recency is a ranking and retrieval advantage. Keep your content updated, make that freshness visible, and verify that Google and LLMs are reading the right dates. 
• The clearer your update signals, the stronger your trust signals.

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Relevance, entities, and the rise of brand SEO

Let’s talk about what really gets remembered in this new AI-driven world.

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity a question, it thinks in entities – people, brands, and concepts it already knows.

The more clearly those models recognize who you are and what you stand for, the more likely you are to be retrieved when it’s time to generate an answer.

That’s where brand SEO comes in.

Harry Clarkson-Bennett in “How to Build a Brand (with SEO) in a Post AI World” makes a great point: LLMs reward brand reinforcement. 

They want to connect names, authors, and websites with a clear area of expertise. And they remember consistency. 

If your name, site, and author profiles all align across the web (same logo, same tone, same expertise), you start training these models to trust you.

I tell bloggers all the time: AI learns the same way humans do. It remembers patterns, tone, and repetition. So make those patterns easy to see.

• Use a consistent author bio everywhere.
• Build clear “About” pages that connect your name to your niche.
• Link your best content internally so Google and AI can map your expertise.
• Use structured data to reinforce entity relationships (i.e., author, organization, and sameAs markup).
• And here’s something new I’ve started recommending to audit clients: AI Buttons. 

I originally discussed these AI buttons in my last article, “AI isn’t the enemy: How bloggers can thrive in a generative search world,” and provided a visual example.

These are simple on-site prompts encouraging readers to save or summarize your content using AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini. 

When users do that, those models start seeing your site as a trusted example. Over time, that can influence what those systems recall and recommend.

Think of this as reputation-building for the AI era. It’s not about trying to game the system. It’s about making sure your brand is memorable, consistent, and worth retrieving.

Fortunately, these buttons are becoming more mainstream, with theme designers like Feast including them as custom blocks. 

And the buttons work – I’ve seen creators turn their blogs into small but powerful brands that LLMs now cite regularly.

They did it by reinforcing who they were, everywhere, and then using AI buttons to encourage their existing traffic to save their sites as high-quality examples to reference in the future.

Takeaway

• Google and AI don’t just rank content anymore. They recognize entities and remember brands. 
• The more consistent and connected your brand signals are, the more likely you’ll be retrieved, cited, and trusted in AI search results.

Why every blogger needs an SEO professional (now more than ever)

Blogging has never been easy, but it’s never been harder than it is right now.

Between core updates, AI Overviews, and shifting algorithms, creators are expected to keep up with changes that even seasoned SEOs struggle to track. 

And that’s the problem – too many bloggers are still trying to figure it all out alone.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after doing more than 160 site audits this year, it’s this: almost every struggling blogger is closer to success than they think. They’re just missing clarity.

A good SEO audit does more than point out broken links or slow-loading pages. It shows you why your content isn’t connecting with Google, readers, and now LLMs. 

My audits are built around what I call the “Toddlers, Drunk Adults, and LLMs” framework. 

If your site works for those three audiences, you’re in great shape.

For toddlers

• The structure is simple. Your content hierarchy makes sense. Every post has a clear topic, and your categories aren’t a maze.

For drunk adults

• Your site is fast, responsive, and forgiving. People can find what they need even when they’re not fully focused.

For LLMs

• Your data is clean, your entities are connected, and your expertise is crystal clear to AI systems scanning your site.

When bloggers follow this approach, the numbers speak for themselves. 

In 2025 alone, my audit clients have seen an average increase of 47% in Google traffic and RPM improvements of 21-33% within a few months of implementing recommendations.

This isn’t just about ranking better. Every audit is a roadmap to help bloggers position their sites for long-term visibility across traditional search and AI-powered discovery.

That means optimizing for things like:

• Clean structured data and schema that improve AI understanding.
• Correct date and metadata signals so recency bias works in your favor.
• Strong internal linking so your topical authority is obvious to both humans and machines.
• Brand alignment across author bios, entities, and social profiles.

You can’t control Google’s volatility, but you can control how clear, crawlable, and connected your site is. That’s what gets rewarded.

And while I’ll always advocate for professional audits, this isn’t about selling a service. 

You need someone who can give you an honest, technical, and strategic look under the hood.

Why?

Because the difference between “doing fine” and “thriving in AI search” often comes down to a single, well-executed audit.

Takeaway

• DIY SEO isn’t enough anymore. Professional audits are the most valuable investment a blogger can make in 2026 and beyond. 
• Not for quick wins, but for building a site that’s understandable, adaptable, and future-ready for both Google and AI.

The road ahead: Blogging in 2026–2030

So where does all this lead? What does blogging even look like five years from now?

Here’s what I see coming.

We’re heading toward an increasingly agentic web, where AI systems do the searching, summarizing, and recommending for us. 

Instead of typing a query into Google, people will ask their personal AI for a dinner idea, a travel itinerary, or a product recommendation. 

And those systems will pull from a short list of trusted sources they already “know.”

That’s why what you’re doing today matters so much.

Every time you publish a post, refine your site structure, or strengthen your brand signals, you’re teaching AI who you are. 

You’re building a long-term relationship with the systems that will decide what gets shown and what gets skipped.

Here’s how I expect the next few years to unfold:

• AI-curated discovery becomes normal: Instead of browsing through 10 links, users get custom recommendations from trusted sources. The blogs that survive are the ones AI already recognizes as reliable.
• Brand-first SEO takes over: Ranking for a keyword will matter less than having your brand show up as the answer. Visibility won’t just depend on optimization, it’ll depend on reputation.
• Entity-first indexing becomes the foundation: Google and AI models are increasingly indexing based on entities, not URLs. That means your author names, structured data, and topical focus all play a direct role in discoverability.
• Human storytelling becomes the ultimate differentiator: AI can summarize information, but it can’t replicate lived experience, voice, or emotion. The content that stands out will be the content that feels human.

The creators who will win in this next chapter are the ones who stop trying to outsmart Google and start building systems that AI can easily understand and humans genuinely connect with.

It’s not about chasing trends or reinventing your site every time an update hits. It’s about getting the fundamentals right and letting clarity, trust, and originality carry you forward.

Because the truth is, Google’s not the gatekeeper anymore. You are. 

Your brand, expertise, and ability to communicate clearly will decide how visible you’ll be in search and AI-driven discovery.

Takeaway

• The next five years of blogging will belong to those who build clear, human-centered brands that AI understands and audiences love. 
• Keep your content fresh, your structure clean, and your voice unmistakably your own.

Clarity over chaos

If there’s one thing I want bloggers to take away from all this, it’s that clarity always wins.

We’re living through the fastest transformation in the history of search. 

AI is rewriting how content is discovered, ranked, and retrieved. 

Yes, that’s scary. But it’s also full of opportunity for those willing to adapt.

I’ve seen it hundreds of times in audits this year. 

Bloggers who simplify their sites, clean up their data, and focus on authority signals see measurable results. 

They show up in AI Overviews. They regain lost rankings. They build audiences that keep coming back, even when algorithms shift again.

This isn’t about fighting AI – it’s about working with it. The goal is to show the system who you are and why your content matters.

Here’s my advice, regardless of the professional you choose:

• Get your site audited by someone who understands both SEO and AI search.
• Keep your content updated and your structure clean.
• Make your brand easy to recognize, both to readers and to machines.
• Build for toddlers, drunk adults, and LLMs.

It’s never been harder to be a content creator, but it’s never been more possible to build something that lasts. 

The blogs that survive the next five years will be organized, human, and clear.

The future of blogging belongs to the creators who embrace clarity over chaos. AI won’t erase the human voice – it’ll amplify the ones that are worth hearing. 

Here’s to raised voices and future success. Good luck out there.

Dig deeper: Organizing content for AI search: A 3-level framework

Regex is a powerful – yet overlooked – tool in search and data analysis. 

With just a single line, you can automate what would otherwise take dozens of lines of code.

Short for “regular expression,” regex is a sequence of characters used to define a pattern for matching text.

It’s what allows you to find, extract, or replace specific strings of data with precision.

In SEO, regex helps you extract and filter information efficiently – from analyzing keyword variations to cleaning messy query data. 

But its value extends well beyond SEO. 

Regex is also fundamental to natural language processing (NLP), offering insight into how machines read, parse, and process text – even how large language models (LLMs) tokenize language behind the scenes.

Regex uses in SEO and AI search

Before getting started with regex basics, I want to highlight some of its uses in our daily workflows.

Google Search Console has a regex filter functionality to isolate specific query types.

One of the simplest regex expressions commonly used is the brand regex brandname1|brandname2|brandname3, which is very useful when users write your brand name in different ways.

Google Analytics also supports regex for defining filters, key events, segments, audiences, and content groups.

Looker Studio allows you to use regex to create filters, calculated fields, and validation rules.

Screaming Frog supports the use of regex to filter and extract data during a crawl and also to exclude specific URLs from your crawl.

Google Sheets enables you to test whether a cell matches a specific regex. Simply use the function REGEXMATCH (text, regular_expression).

In SEO, we’re surrounded by tools and features just waiting for a well-written regex to unlock their full potential.

Regex in NLP

If you’re building SEO tools, especially those that involve content processing, regex is your secret weapon.

It gives you the power to search, validate, and replace text based on advanced, customizable patterns.

Here’s a Google Colab notebook with an example of a Python script that takes a list of queries and extracts different variations of my brand name. 

You can easily customize this code by plugging it into ChatGPT or Claude alongside your brand name.

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How to write regex

I’m a fan of vibe coding – but not the kind where you skip the basics and rely entirely on LLMs. 

After all, you can’t use a calculator properly if you don’t understand numbers or how addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction work.

I support the kind of vibe coding that builds on a little coding knowledge – enough to use LLMs effectively, test what they produce, and troubleshoot when needed.

Likewise, learning the basics of regex helps you use LLMs to create more advanced expressions.

Simple regex cheat sheet

Symbol	Meaning
.	Matches any single character.
^	Matches the start of a string.
$	Matches the end of a string.
*	Matches 0 or more of the preceding character.
+	Matches 1 or more of the preceding character.
?	Makes the preceding character optional (0 or 1 time).
{}	Matches the preceding character a specific number of times.
[]	Matches any one character inside the brackets.
\	Escapes special characters or signals special sequences like \d.
`	Matches a literal backtick character.
()	Groups characters together (for operators or capturing).

Example usage

Here’s a list of 10 long-tail keywords. Let’s explore how different regex patterns filter them using the Regex101 tool.

• “Best vegan recipes for beginners.”
• “Affordable solar panels for home.”
• “How to train for a marathon.”
• “Electric cars with longest battery range.”
• “Meditation apps for stress relief.”
• “Sustainable fashion brands for women.”
• “DIY home workout routines without equipment.”
• “Travel insurance for adventure trips.”
• “AI writing software for SEO content.”
• “Coffee brewing techniques for espresso lovers.”

Example 1: Extract any two-character sequence that starts with an “a.” The second character can be anything (i.e., a, then anything).

• Regex: a.
• Output: (All highlighted words in the screenshot below.)

Example 2: Extract any string that starts with the letter “a” (i.e., a is the start of the string, then followed by anything).

• Regex: ^a.
• Output: (All highlighted words in screenshot below.)

Example 3: Extract any string that starts with an “a” and ends with an “e” (i.e., any line that starts with a, followed by anything, then ends with an e).

• Regex: ^a.*e$
• Output: (All highlighted words in the screenshot below.)

Example 4: Extract any string that contains two “s.”

• Regex: s{2}
• Output: (All highlighted words in the screenshot below.)

Example 5: Extract any string that contains “for” or “with.”

• Regex: for|with
• Output: (All highlighted words in the screenshot below.)

I’ve also built a sample regex Google Sheet so you can play around, test, and experience the feature in Google Sheets, too. Check it out here.

Note: Cells in the Extracted Text column showing #N/A indicate that the regex didn’t find a matching pattern.

Where regex fits in your SEO toolkit

By exploring regex, you’ll open new doors for analyzing and organizing search data. 

It’s one of those skills that quietly makes you faster and more precise – whether you’re segmenting keywords, cleaning messy queries, or setting up advanced filters in Search Console or Looker Studio.

Once you’re comfortable with the basics, start spotting where regex can save you time. 

Use it to identify branded versus nonbranded searches, group URLs by pattern, or validate large text datasets before they reach your reports.

Experiment with different expressions in tools like Regex101 or Google Sheets to see how small syntax changes affect results. 

The more you practice, the easier it becomes to recognize patterns in both data and problem-solving. 

That’s where regex truly earns its place in your SEO toolkit.

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