AI Awareness Is Rising—So Is Fear of Job Loss.As artificial intelligence becomes more visible in daily life, public opinion is developing a striking contradiction: people are becoming more familiar with AI, but that familiarity is not necessarily making them more optimistic about its economic impact.A new Pew Research Center study across 37 countries finds that in 34 of them, people are more likely to expect AI to reduce jobs than create them over the next 20 years. The research draws on surveys of 42,151 adults across 36 countries, supplem...

Nvidia is partnering with Einride as the Swedish autonomous-truck maker looks to boost its production to meet rising demand for driverless vehicles.Nvidia is partnering with Swedish autonomous-truck maker Einride to provide the compute platform and AI tools for its self-driving systems.Einride expects its vehicle demand to increase to between 1,500 and 2,000 vehicles by 2028, up from the hundreds of electric trucks it currently runs.Einride will build the next generation of its driver system on the Nvidia Hyperion platform to scale autonomou...

The next generation of computing presents mounting heat challenges with every new launch.As AI server racks become dramatically more powerful, traditional air cooling is approaching its practical limits. Beyond roughly 250 kW per rack, even hybrid liquid-air cooling becomes difficult to operate efficiently, pushing data centers toward near-total liquid heat capture and ultimately fanless server designs.With a conventional 70/30 liquid-to-air cooling split, a 250-kW rack still leaves 75 kW of heat for air cooling. Moving that much heat requir...

Amazon has evolved far beyond its origins as an online bookstore, building one of the world’s broadest technology and consumer ecosystems.A 2026 overview of the company’s brands, products and services illustrates how deeply Amazon now spans commerce, entertainment, cloud computing, health care, logistics, smart devices and private-label goods.At the center remains Amazon’s commerce platform, which includes Amazon.com, Marketplace, Prime, Buy with Prime, Amazon Business, Amazon Pay and specialized retail properties such as Zappos, Shopbop,...

Miele's latest dishwasher has smarts a-plenty, including a camera housed in the back of the door.It seems the public wants fewer cameras, not more, but that hasn’t stopped the large appliance industry. While a fridge or oven camera almost certainly presents less of a privacy risk than a Flock surveillance unit — hey, it’s right there in the name — one could argue they’ve gone overboard.Sensors and lenses have crept into nearly every other kitchen machine, met with a range of consumer sentiment. Smart ovens and connected refrigerators ar...

The artists behind the project call it “an essential that shouldn’t exist.”A new tote bag has a hidden feature: In a flood, it doubles as a life jacket. Most of the time, it’s an ordinary bag. But in an emergency, you can unfold it into a vest, slip it over your head, and tug a cord to inflate it.The conceptual product, designed by a collective of artists, points to the absurdity of adjusting to life with climate change. “The whole premise of this thing is, why the hell should this even exist?” says Phil Le Brun, one of the creators be...

1. (PDF) 고객 경험(CX) 분야 내 AI 에이전트의 재무적 ROI 실증 보고서 고객 경험(CX) 분야 내 AI 에이전트의 메인스트림 안착: 전 세계 3,466명 경영진 조사 결과, 63%가 CX 분야에 생성형 AI를 도입했으며 이 중 52%가 실제 운영 환경에 AI 에이전트를 배치 완료.초기 도입 기업의 명확한 재무적 ROI 증명: AI 에이전트 선도 기업의 88%가 재무적 ROI를 창출 중이며, Mr. Cooper(연간 28,000시간 절감) 및 Toolstation(검색 매출 5.5% 증가) 등 실질적 가치 입증.조직적 거버넌스 및 C-Suite 스폰서십의 중요성: 기술적 장벽보다 데이터 프라이버시(37%) 및 기존 시스템 통합(28%)이 핵...

AI Agents Are Moving Customer Experience from Experimentation to Measurable ROI.AI agents are rapidly moving beyond experimentation and becoming a measurable source of customer-experience and operational value. Google Cloud’s latest research suggests the conversation has shifted from whether generative AI can improve CX to how companies can scale proven agentic use cases across the customer journey.The report is based on a survey of 3,466 senior executives across global enterprises, spanning retail, financial services, manufacturing, health...

For anyone who thinks Apple would never launch a screenless Watch, let me remind you of two, nay, three things. First, the iPod Shuffle – a product that baffled many, but delighted even more. For anyone who couldn’t afford an iPod Classic or Nano, the screenless Shuffle was the instant next pick. You couldn’t do much, play-pause, move across a randomized roster of tracks, and adjust volume. As limiting as this experience was, it still a smash success, selling 10 million units in just its first year.The second bit of evidence I’d like to...