SoftBank's Son says AI will need $5 trillion per year by 2040, dismisses bubble talk
The development of AI will require investment of $5 trillion each year by 2040, and any talk of a bubble forming around the technology is "absurd", SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday.
The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new way…
New York imposes first-in-the-nation statewide freeze on ‘hyperscale’ data centers
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is imposing the nation’s first-ever statewide freeze on new “hyperscale” data centers. Hochul is pausing state-level environmental permits for “up to” a year to give the state time to put together a framework to protect the environment, the energy grid and New Yorkers’ electric bills, her office said. Hochul…
Scientists say modern buildings, LED lighting, and repetitive patterns may overload the brain's visual processing system, causing headaches, nausea, and physical distress for millions.
Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.
Large language model-generated clinical summaries in emergency departments: A blinded comparison study
Author summary Emergency physicians face the challenge of rapidly synthesizing a patient’s entire medical history — often spanning years of records across multiple hospitalizations — within minutes of meeting them for the first time. To support this process, physicians write a ‘one-liner’: a single sentence that distills the most relevant aspects of a patient’s background and current complaint. Crafting this summary is cognitively demanding, particularly in busy emergency departments where interruptions are frequent and time is scarce. In this study, we evaluated whether a large language model (LLM) — a type of artificial intelligence trained on vast amounts of text — could generate these one-liner summaries from electronic health record data. We asked 21 emergency physicians to blindly rate paired LLM- and physician-authored summaries across accuracy, completeness, and clinical utility. LLM-generated summaries received higher ratings across all three dimensions. Importantly, the two approaches showed complementary strengths: LLM summaries were more faithful to the medical record, while physician summaries contributed contextual nuance. These findings suggest that a hybrid approach, where LLMs provide a structured foundation that clinicians then refine, may represent the most promising path forward. Prospective validation in live clinical settings is needed before these tools can be deployed.
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
The grid is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding grid.
Budget smartphone market collapses under the weight of memory shortages, sales expected to drop 22% — memory alone now comprises up to 64% of the total cost of lower-tier smartphones
The global AI memory squeeze is pricing cheap phones out of existence.
Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent development over the last four months had not "accelerated in the way we expected," according to a recording heard by Reuters.
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
Dhruv Khullar writes about two new books—“Morbid,” by Saul Justin Newman, and “Eat Your Ice Cream,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel—that wrestle with the quest to slow aging.
Future of Work Language and Lexicon of Work | Raphael Gielgen posted on the topic | LinkedIn
THE FUTURE OF WORK SPEAKS A NEW LANGUAGE.
Five years ago, many of the terms that now define knowledge work simply didn't exist. Copilot. Foundation Models. AI Governance. Vibe Coding. Human-AI Collaboration.
Every technological and societal shift creates its own vocabulary. If we want to understand where work is heading, we shouldn't just observe emerging technologies—we should also pay attention to the language we use to describe them.
That observation led to the creation of the #LexiconOfWork.
Over the past few months, together with Sebastian Randerath and Alexander Mainusch, we have developed a reference guide that brings together 87 key terms and concepts shaping the future of knowledge work—from Activity-Based Working to Zero-Touch Automation.
The Lexicon is part of the new Vitra #WorkPanorama2026. More than a glossary, it is a guide to navigating change—an invitation to discover new connections, understand emerging concepts, and make sense of the profound transformation reshaping the way we work.
For me, the future of work is one of the defining societal challenges of our time. Helping people better understand this transformation—and providing orientation in an increasingly complex world—is what motivates me every single day.
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