How Bridge Entertainment Labs’ Steven Olikara Is Building Community Across America’s Deepest Divides
Steven OlikaraChelsea Lauren / Shutterstock for Hollywood Climate SummitThere is an industry that profits every time you come to hate your neighbor a little more. Steven Olikara calls it the “division industrial complex” — “a collection of algorithms, polarized media, and hyper-partisan political operatives that make money on making us hate each other all the…
Salman Shahid, CEO at Noah Technology. gettyArtificial intelligence is no longer a test case in digital marketing. It is becoming a structural requirement. Yet across organizations, a similar pattern is emerging where AI pilots succeed, but enterprise adoption stalls. Teams experiment with AI-driven content, automate segments of paid media or utilize predictive models in isolation.…
Road sign on a German autobahn.gettyAs Europe searches for its next wave of energy transition and industry 4.0 solutions, technology startups driving the continent’s fourth industrial revolution or “4IR” are increasingly heading to a particular part of Germany in their droves – the Munich-Dresden corridor. An aggregation of Deutscher Startup-Verband and registry origination data from…
Apple iPhone 17Getty ImagesJune 30 update: this post, first released on June 29, was updated to reflect Apple’s confirmation that this update was issued early as a response to hackers. Apple’s latest iPhone software has just been released, almost a month after iOS 26.5.1, which was exclusively for iPhone 17 series handsets and iPhone Air.…
Nearly every vehicle on the market today is offered with some type of cloud-based subscription services.©2026 Michael Harley/Schnell Auto, Inc.Your next car may send you a monthly billing reminder—nagging you for a dozen other fees you didn’t know you’d signed up for. The industry’s quiet pivot toward subscriptions and software‑locked features is changing what it…
Microsoft’s internal AI transformation offers a valuable lesson for every organization: adding AI tools is only the beginning.Adobe StockThe biggest mistake leaders can make with AI is to treat it like another software rollout. That was one of the clearest messages from Bosch Connected World 2026 in Berlin, where Katy George, Corporate Vice President of…
Krish Ramineni is CEO & Co-founder at Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. gettyA decade ago, starting a software company was expensive. You needed engineers, cloud hosting, infrastructure, design and months of development just to ship something mediocre. Most founders never even got past the prototype…
Ben Blanquera – VP – AI and Sustainability, Rackspace Technology. gettyIn my role as vice-president of sustainability and AI at Rackspace Technology, I’m seeing organizations invest in enterprise artificial intelligence, expecting massive productivity gains, particularly in business process returns. But as companies rush deployments, they often encounter significant roadblocks unrelated to coding or data as…
ToplineOpenAI is now leaning toward delaying its public debut from later this year to next year, unnamed sources told The New York Times, as Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock tumbles after its record IPO and the public tech market slumps more broadly. WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 3: CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman talks to reporters following…
silicon wafersgettyChina’s focus on technology self-reliance has minted a new billionaire as investors pile into the shares of semiconductor component maker Chongqing Genori Technology. The firm’s shares have soared almost 1,200% from its initial public offering price within days of its Wednesday market debut in Shanghai, leading Chairman and CEO Wang Bing to amass a…





