Skills & Careers
Skills-Based Hiring Crosses the Tipping Point: 85% of Employers Claim It
85% of employers claim skills-based hiring but Harvard shows only 0.14% of hires are affected. The gap between rhetoric and reality in 2026.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Google’s 100-Hour Battery: Iron-Air Storage Rewrites Data Center Energy Rules
Google and Xcel Energy will deploy 300 MW of Form Energy iron-air storage in Minnesota. 100-hour discharge at 1/10th lithium-ion cost for data centers.
AI & Automation
NotebookLM: How It’s Helping People Learn to Code – And Why It Matters
In 2026, a growing number of learners report using Google's NotebookLM as a structured companion for learning programming. Rather than acting as a generic chatbot, NotebookLM works as a source-grounded AI notebook, helping users organize their own materials and ask contextual
Infrastructure & Cloud
Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Microsoft, Google, and the AI Energy Gamble
The Energy Math Behind the AI Boom Training a large language model at the scale of GPT-4 consumes roughly 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity — enough to power thousands of homes for a year, burned in a matter of weeks. That figure does not include inference, the continuous
Infrastructure & Cloud
Google’s Intelligence Infrastructure Play: Why They Don’t Need to Win the Model Race
Google just shipped the smartest AI model on the planet. It leads on 13 of 16 benchmarks.
Policy & Regulation
Big Tech on Trial: The Global Antitrust Wave Reshaping the Tech Industry in 2025-2026
The dream of Silicon Valley's golden era — that technology companies could grow without limits, displace entire industries, and operate by their own rules — is colliding with a global regulatory reckoning in 2025 and 2026. Antitrust authorities in the United States, European
AI & Automation
The Age of AI Agents: How Autonomous AI Is Reshaping Technology in 2026
From Chatbots to Autonomous Workers For three years, using AI meant typing a prompt and reading a response. That era is ending.
