For two decades, the digital world has been organised around apps. We opened an app to message a friend. An app to order food. An app to book a flight. An app to write a document. The app became the doorway to almost everything we did online. In 2026, that doorway is being torn down. …
For over two decades, one machine decided who got noticed on the internet. You typed a query into Google, scanned ten blue links, and clicked. Businesses lived or died by where they landed in that list. An entire industry search engine optimisation was built around climbing it. In 2026, that machine is being rebuilt from …
A quiet but significant shift in how the United States governs frontier artificial intelligence took effect on Tuesday, 5 May 2026. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) — the Commerce Department body that succeeded the Biden-era US AI Safety Institute — announced formal agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to evaluate their …
If 2024 was the year frontier AI models started arriving every few months, 2026 has compressed the cadence further. Between February and late April this year, four of the most consequential AI labs in the world — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and China's DeepSeek — each shipped a new flagship model. GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, …
Most people have heard the phrase "quantum computing" at least once in the past year. It appears in technology headlines, government policy announcements, and conversations about the future of artificial intelligence. And yet, for the vast majority of people, it remains something abstract — a vaguely impressive concept that seems to belong to physicists and …
We are living through one of the most accelerated periods of technological change in human history. Every decade brings innovation, but 2025 feels different — this is the year when ideas that once lived only in science fiction are stepping firmly into reality. Artificial intelligence is no longer just answering your questions; it is beginning …
Social media is evolving faster than ever. What worked five years ago may not work today—and what’s trending today might change tomorrow. With over 5.24 billion global social media users in 2026, platforms are competing for attention, engagement, and innovation. So, which social media platforms are trending right now? And more importantly, which ones should …
