The AI sexting era has arrived
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field....
TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war
TiVo could have been a contender.
In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the new episode of Battlestar...
Why the price of gold is rising while Bitcoin is struggling
For years, Bitcoin has been hailed as “digital gold,” a hedge against inflation and policy excess.
Yet, as geopolitical tensions rise and trade disputes return to the headlines, the original store...
Abstract or die: Why AI enterprises can't afford rigid vector stacks
Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud measure...
