Month: January 2026

Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing by November

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Patreon will force creators to move away from legacy billing methods this fall to appease Apple’s newly revived subscriptions mandate. The migration will impact 4 percent of Patreon creators who still use first-of-the-month and per creation billing models, with Apple imposing a deadline to switch to subscription billing by November 1st, 2026. On its support … Read more

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near a school, causing minor injuries

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A Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, on January 23rd, causing minor injuries and prompting the National Highway Traffic Safety administration to open an investigation. The incident occurred during normal school drop off hours, with other children, a crossing guard, and several double-parked vehicles in the vicinity, NHTSA … Read more

The Algorithmic Blind Spot: Why AI Search Can’t See Your Tech Brand

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The conventional marketing funnel is shattered. As 2026 continues to unfold with various great tech developments, it will no longer be merely human editors or Google PageRank that determine technical reputation; it will be Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered synthesis engines. We are moving into a new period of AEO (AI Engine Optimization), where … Read more

The AI Control Plane: Observability, Cost Governance, and Policy for LLM Applications

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AI/Agentic/LLM applications are not like microservices. When they fail, they fail like microservices plus content. In the absence of a control plane, you can’t answer basic production questions such as Which prompt version caused the issue? Which tool call leaked the data? Why did costs triple overnight? An AI Control Plane gives you standardized evaluation, … Read more

12 Behavioral Psychology Biases That Shape Consumer Decisions Across Digital Products

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User decisions aren’t rational, they’re driven by predictable cognitive biases that spike under uncertainty, time pressure, and high stakes. This article maps the most common biases across the travel journey (anchoring, social proof, framing/“free,” probability bias, authority, choice overload, compromise effect, and more), shows how to diagnose them with experiments + research, and explains what … Read more

There won’t be a Nothing Phone 4 this year

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2025’s Nothing Phone 3 will remain the brand’s flagship phone this year. Nothing CEO Carl Pei confirmed the Phone 4 won’t launch in 2026 in a new video on the brand’s YouTube channel. “There’s no new flagship this year,” Pei said when asked about phone plans for 2026, instead emphasizing that last year’s Phone 3 … Read more

Neuromorphic Computing Explained: How Brain-Inspired Systems Could Shape AI’s Future

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Neuromorphic computing isn’t about making faster GPUs—it’s about abandoning brute-force math as the default path to intelligence. Inspired by how brains work, these systems use event-driven, sparse, and time-based computation to achieve extreme energy efficiency. By merging memory and compute and operating asynchronously, they avoid the power and data-movement limits that are slowing conventional AI … Read more

RAG is a Data Problem Pretending to Be AI

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation fails most often not because LLMs “hallucinate,” but because retrieval pipelines return incomplete, stale, or irrelevant context—due to weak chunking, naive ranking, missing metadata/ACLs, and lack of evaluation—so reliable RAG requires treating it like search + ETL with rigorous instrumentation, hybrid retrieval, rerankers, confidence thresholds, and continuous evals.