How annoying! The $165 billion industry that means that everything sucks! Get used to it!
The Annoyance Economy is a real thing - and it's here to stay. Welcome to Larry David's world!
Stuart Lauchlan
Articles by Stuart Lauchlan
While AI might be what comes next for retail, at NEXT successful adoption lies as much in what the firm isn't doing
NEXT CEO Simon Wolfson has strong views on the potential of AI and where it can benefit, and threaten, the retail operating model.
Monday Morning Moan - Educating Melania. Hey robo-teacher, leave those kids alone!
US First Lady Melania Trump envisages generations of kids being taught by robot teachers. Empowering worldview or a dystopian nightmare waiting to happen? Educate yourselves and find out.
The big bets are on as Salesforce pitches the need for enterprise transition from model to system level AI
Itai Asseo, VP of Salesforce AI Research, explains some new enterprise realities on the way.
A shot in the ARM for the humble CPU - how AI is increasing awareness of why silicon matters, according to ARM CEO Rene Haas
The demands of the agentic AI age are powering fresh demand for CPU innovation.
The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes
News from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, some big names on Trump 2.0's latest list, Sam Altman's no longer indulging in Mickey Mouse thinking, and Meta couldn't have had a worse work in the courts if it had tried!
First blood to Anthropic as US judge slams Trump 2.0's “Orwellian" attempt to cripple the firm as unconstitutional and illegal
Anthropic has been granted temporary relief in the form of an injunction to prevent Trump 2.0 from following through on its threats for now.
Meta's bad day in court (2/2) - addiction by design as a deliberate growth strategy?
Meta and Alphabet's YouTube are guilty of engineering addiction into their products, according to an LA jury. Will this finally trigger regulatory action?
Meta's bad day in court (1/2) - safety last as platform provider ignored kids online interests in favor of growth, says New Mexico jury
In a landmark ruling, the State of New Mexico scored a major victory over Big Tech - and that's just the start!
The Secretary of War didn’t really mean it, contends US government lawyer as Anthropic gets its first day in court over Trump 2.0’s risk to the nation designation. So what did he mean?
A "supply chain risk designation in search of a rationale"! Anthropic might try to sabotage military systems when they do sofware upgrades! Claim and counter-claim - and it's only day one of a long running series of court appointments....
DIY on the e-commerce plumbing - how B&Q is honing its online customer journey to prevent buyers leaking out
Navigating a vast product inventory is made all the harder when you don't know the name of what you're looking for!
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Anthropic's (first) day in court against Trump 2.0, and the Judge has some difficult questions for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to answer...
Did Hegseth and Trump 2.0 in general over-step in its punative actions towards US tech champion Anthropic? We won't find out today by any manner of means, but the conflict is moving into a new phase...
In a gen AI age, here's the kicker from Dow Jones - it's not a threat, it's opening up a whole new growth moment for trusted and proprietary data
"This is our moment", enthuses Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour.
