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NYC’s AI Ban Isn’t the Win Mamdani Thinks It Is
BOTTOM LINE NYC’s yearlong ban on AI chatbots for 600,000 K-8 students is being cheered as a win for child safety, but the city’s own high school pilot already proves there’s a smarter path: chatbots built with guardrails that guide a student through the work instead of doing it for them. New York City just…
Tim Cook Inherited Steve Jobs’ Apple. He Leaves Behind His Own.
BOTTOM LINE Tim Cook’s fourteen years as Apple’s CEO end today, with John Ternus, the company’s longtime hardware chief, taking over. Cook never pretended to be the product visionary Steve Jobs was, but he took a $350 billion company and built it into one worth several trillion, all while critics kept asking if Apple could…
What Meta’s AI Retreat Actually Proves About the Future of Work
BOTTOM LINE Meta just quietly scaled back its most aggressive plan to replace workers with AI agents. Not because the tech failed outright. Because folding agents into a real organization turned out to be its own unsolved problem, one a $135 billion budget couldn’t buy past. The Plan Was Simple. The Execution Wasn’t. Internally it…
The New Mac Mini: Not the Bargain It Used to Be
BOTTOM LINE Apple’s new Mac mini now starts at $899, its second price increase in four months, as the AI-driven DRAM shortage spills into consumer hardware. The M6 chip is a genuine leap forward, but most buyers won’t have a workflow demanding enough to justify paying for it. Apple’s new Mac mini starts at $899,…
From 10 to 5,000: Tesla’s Nevada Robotaxi Permit and the Reality of Scale
Nevada just replaced Tesla’s 10-vehicle interim robotaxi permit with a ceiling of 5,000, but that number is regulatory headroom, not a forecast. Tesla itself says a fleet near 2,500 would count as a win, while Waymo and Uber each picked up permits for 1,000 vehicles of their own.