Format: Analysis
Digital Economy
The Cookieless Future Is Here: First-Party Data Strategies That Actually Work
The deadline that advertisers spent years dreading has arrived. Google completed the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome for the vast majority of users by early 2025, joining Safari and Firefox, which killed cross-site tracking years earlier.
Policy & Regulation
The Facial Recognition Crackdown: Bans, Restrictions, and a World Diverging
Cameras recognize your face. They compare it against a database.
AI & Automation
Vision-Language Models Go Enterprise: Real Use Cases Beyond the Demo
A year ago, vision-language models impressed people at conferences. They could describe photographs, read invoices, and pass board-exam questions with annotated diagrams.
Startups
Vertical AI Startups: Why Industry-Specific AI Is Beating General Models
Every enterprise software category has its moment when the horizontal tool loses to the specialist. General-purpose spreadsheets lost to dedicated accounting software.
AI & Automation
Test-Time Compute: The Scaling Law That Does Not Need More Training Data
For three years, the dominant story in AI was simple: bigger models trained on more data performed better. Scale the parameters, scale the dataset, scale the GPU hours — and watch benchmarks improve.
Policy & Regulation
Teen Social Media Bans: Which Laws Are Surviving Court Challenges in 2026
Governments around the world are drawing a legal line between adolescents and social media platforms. Australia's law banning users under 16 from major platforms took effect in late 2024 and became the most aggressive age restriction the world had seen from a democratic government.
Digital Economy
Subscription Fatigue: The Great Rebundling and What It Means for SaaS
The promise of the subscription economy was simplicity: pay a little each month, get access to everything you need, cancel anytime. What emerged instead was a thicket of recurring charges — streaming services, software tools, cloud storage tiers, fitness apps, news
Startups
The New Geography of Startups: Dubai, Singapore, Warsaw, and Beyond Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley's dominance over global startup activity is real but no longer total. The combination of astronomical housing costs, visa friction for international talent, post-pandemic remote work normalization, and the democratization of cloud infrastructure has enabled
Infrastructure & Cloud
Securing the Software Supply Chain: Sigstore, SLSA, and the New Container Trust Model
The SolarWinds attack of 2020 was a turning point. Attackers did not breach the target organizations directly.
Digital Economy
Social Commerce Explodes: TikTok Shop, Live Shopping
The checkout button never used to live inside a video. That changed.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Shadow AI: The Silent Data Exfiltration Risk Inside Every Company
In 2023, a Samsung engineer pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to help debug a problem. The code — containing semiconductor manufacturing specifications — was processed by OpenAI's servers, used as training data, and effectively transmitted outside the company's security perimeter.
