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The relentless, frenetic excitement surrounding Artificial Intelligence feels familiar. For anyone who remembers the turn of the millennium, it’s a clear echo of the dot-com bubble, a time of speculation about a new technology completely detached from business fundamentals.
Back then, optimism for an internet-driven economy sent stock prices for companies like AOL to astronomical
Good Sunday morning from Seattle . . . Our weekly Online Travel Update for the week ending Friday, October 31, 2025, is below. Booking Holdings garnered most of the attention this past week as it reported its third quarter earnings and updated investors on its ongoing artificial intelligence efforts. A copy of the earnings release
Editor’s Note: A single misattributed quote nearly upended the career of a fictional journalist in this cautionary tale, but the deeper lesson resonates far beyond the newsroom. For cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals, this narrative underscores a stark reality: artificial intelligence can introduce subtle but consequential errors that evade even the most experienced eyes—unless
Computerworld.com reported that “Breaking the humanoid robot delusion “Robot makers want us all to believe we’re on the brink of an autonomous humanoid robot revolution. But that’s just not true. Call it ‘faith-based innovation.’ A Silicon Valley company called 1X this week announced a humanoid robot that does all your housework. The robot is called NEO. The
Editor’s Note: The TLTF Summit 2025, taking place November 12–14 in Austin, may signal a turning point in the legal technology landscape, one where the convergence of artificial intelligence, investor influence, and new ownership models begins to reshape how law is delivered and understood. For cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals, the event’s programming offers
Earlier this month, our team published an in-depth article for federal contractors on navigating WARN Act compliance amid government shutdowns and federal contract cancellations. Since then, we’ve been closely monitoring the broader wave of workforce reductions affecting not only government contractors but employers across industries and company sizes.
As Russian Energy Week concluded last week, Western governments strike to the heart of Russia’s energy sector with sanctions packages to cut of revenue that funds Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Three significant packages were announced in October 2025: the U.S.’s sanctions targeting the Russian energy sector, the UK’s latest sanctions against the Russian oil industry, and the EU’s 19ᵗʰ package of sanctions.
Full disclosure, I’m an adopted Texan. I wasn’t born or raised in Texas, but my family and I moved from Washington, D.C. in 2007 and I have called it home ever since. Although this fact may, reasonably, color my views, it has been a remarkable place to watch economic growth and the adoption of the
With the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in computing applications booming, the need for computing power capable of supporting those applications has exploded, fueling an unprecedented surge in data center development. Those data centers require enormous amounts of power, primarily because of the many graphics processing units (GPUs) they use and the cooling systems those GPUs require. Berkeley Labs estimates that by 2029, data center power demands will account for up to 12 percent of all domestic power consumption.
Meeting the energy demands created by the supercharged pace of data center expansion will require the coordination and utilization of multiple energy types; no single energy type is expected to meet forecasted data center energy needs alone. As data center development skyrockets to meet AI power needs, the expansion of reliable, dispatchable power options will become increasingly important.