As we approach the Convergence Age, the physical, digital, biological, and even cosmic realms are merging into a hyperconnected environment. Our understanding of risk and danger is blurring. Dissolution provides fresh opportunities and problems beyond grasp. It’s not speculation. It’s inevitable due to exponential technology. It’s unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. I have spent
0:01 | Apr 29, 2026, 02:53PM EDT Automate The Mundane, Elevate The Human: Inside Publicis Sapient’s AI Strategy Are you implementing AI to solve a problem, or just adding technology to a broken workflow? Forbes’ Maggie McGrath sits down with Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to discuss the dangers of
Imagine you’re the head of an enterprise organization that just dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars on AI consultants. Racing to introduce artificial intelligence into your workflows, you also bought the latest pricey tools and invested in time-consuming workshops to get your people ready. It’s all worth it, you think, to own the AI revolution.
The rise of generative and agentic AI is the most consequential technology innovation to materialize in decades, and it is arguably bigger than the advent of the public internet and cloud computing. As enterprises scramble to evaluate and deploy AI tech stacks and agentic frameworks that are evolving rapidly over weeks and months, traditional data
Hoppers (2026)Courtesy of Disney UKThe wait is over. Disney and Pixar’s latest animated film, Hoppers, is now available to stream on digital platforms after debuting on the big screen in March. Directed by Daniel Chong, Piper Curda voices Mabel, an animal lover who gets the chance to use new technology that lets her “hop” her…
What do Meta’s New AI model and Meta’s Layoff tell us? (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThis week, Meta cut 8,000 employees and launched the new AI Muse model on the same day. Microsoft offered voluntary retirement to thousands of long-tenured staff. Twenty thousand jobs gone in seven days, from two…
Anti-Virus software in 2003 (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Getty ImagesWelcome to The Main Street Tech Report, your weekly roundup of the most important small business technology news. Here are five key developments in AI, automation, and digital tools that emerged this week-and what they mean for your business. Microsoft Officially Says You Don’t Need Extra…
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed palm-sized drones that use bat-inspired ultrasound and AI to navigate through fog, smoke, and other challenging conditions. The device mimics how bats use simple echolocation to navigate dark, cluttered environments with minimal neural processing. The Ghost Murmur mission report illustrates how real-world operations depend on detecting and
0:02 | Apr 16, 2026, 10:36PM EDT How Altana Is Fixing The Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem With AI Supply chains used to be an invisible back-office function—until global shocks, shifting geopolitics, and new tariffs made them a C-suite emergency. Forbes’ Maggie McGrath chats with Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder of Altana, to discuss how his
The shock, turmoil, and heartache of being handed a pink slip or weathering a downsizing is hard to fathom. Yet, after a recent round of Oracle layoffs, there’s now a way to peek behind the corporate curtain. Several workers at the Texas-based tech giant expressed the shock of being part of what one former employee
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