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Eitan Shapiro

Technology Reporter

543 Articles

About Eitan

Eitan reports on the business of technology: platform economics, AI adoption, chips and software. He tries to separate what a product launch claims from what companies actually deploy, and keeps a running interest in where the industry's spending goes versus where its revenue comes from.

Areas of Expertise

Tech industry AI software platforms

Latest Articles

Indian Cleaning Startup Pronto Turns Head-Camera Footage Into AI Training Data
Technology

Indian Cleaning Startup Pronto Turns Head-Camera Footage Into AI Training Data

Bangalore startup Pronto pays cleaners double to record shifts with head cameras, then sells anonymized footage to US AI...

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Kumamoto Quake: Chip Fabs Recovered Fast, but Engineer Bottlenecks Remain
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Kumamoto Quake: Chip Fabs Recovered Fast, but Engineer Bottlenecks Remain

Days after a shindo-7 earthquake, TSMC's JASM fab was back to normal output. The rebound shows how seismic measures have...

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max Claims Anthropic-Level Performance in New China AI Wave
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max Claims Anthropic-Level Performance in New China AI Wave

Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest AI model, claiming parity with Anthropic's top systems — the latest sign China...

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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens
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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens

OpenAI has found additional cases of autonomous agents escaping supposedly contained testing environments, widening its ...

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Xiaomi Raises Phone Prices Third Time This Year as Memory Costs Bite
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Xiaomi Raises Phone Prices Third Time This Year as Memory Costs Bite

Xiaomi lifted prices on its Xiaomi 17 and Redmi K90 lines by 300–500 yuan on Aug 2 — its third increase this year — as m...

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AI Text Is Everywhere — Can Readers Still Tell It Apart?
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AI Text Is Everywhere — Can Readers Still Tell It Apart?

AI now helps produce LinkedIn posts, e-books and roughly a third of web content. As machine writing gets harder to disti...

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Inside the Agentic AI Playbooks of Bayer, Zoom and a Health Tech Firm
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Inside the Agentic AI Playbooks of Bayer, Zoom and a Health Tech Firm

Bayer is pushing six OTC brands into AI answer engines via an Amazon partnership, Zoom automated product naming with an ...

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Pippa Pays Artists for AI Training — but Its Models Still Rest on Scraped Data
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Pippa Pays Artists for AI Training — but Its Models Still Rest on Scraped Data

The text-to-video startup pays artists royalties for AI training, but its underlying models still use scraped data — and...

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AI Now Runs the Ad Industry in 2026 — But Black-Box Platforms Test Marketers' Trust
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AI Now Runs the Ad Industry in 2026 — But Black-Box Platforms Test Marketers' Trust

AI is woven into nearly every stage of advertising in 2026, but transparency lags as agentic AI's first wave arrives. Ma...

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Sam Altman's Exact ChatGPT Prompt Helped a Non-Coder Ship a Live Website in Two Hours
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Sam Altman's Exact ChatGPT Prompt Helped a Non-Coder Ship a Live Website in Two Hours

A Business Insider reporter copied Sam Altman's exact ChatGPT prompt and built a working travel-planning website in unde...

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The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs
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The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs

Consultants, measurement platforms and infrastructure startups are racing to help enterprises stop overpaying for AI. Me...

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GigaOm Pitches Benchmark Reports as a Sales Weapon for Enterprise Tech Vendors
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GigaOm Pitches Benchmark Reports as a Sales Weapon for Enterprise Tech Vendors

GigaOm is selling its benchmark reports as independent, lab-tested validation that helps enterprise tech vendors close t...

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GigaOm Markets Analyst-Led Sales Enablement Built on Its Radar Reports
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GigaOm Markets Analyst-Led Sales Enablement Built on Its Radar Reports

GigaOm is pitching a program that turns its Radar analyst research into sales messaging and competitive guidance for sof...

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AI and IT Teams Don't Have to Fight: What Three Companies Got Right
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AI and IT Teams Don't Have to Fight: What Three Companies Got Right

Baringa Group, Southern Bank and PacificTel each resolved the AI-IT divide by changing structures, not just attitudes. T...

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Okta Pitches Automated Identity Governance to Campuses Overwhelmed by Access Sprawl
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Okta Pitches Automated Identity Governance to Campuses Overwhelmed by Access Sprawl

A new Okta white paper argues universities' overlapping roles — students who are also staff, faculty running research — ...

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Ethereum Explained: The 2015 Project Behind Smart Contracts, dApps and ETH
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Ethereum Explained: The 2015 Project Behind Smart Contracts, dApps and ETH

A plain-language look at Ethereum — the 2015 project that added smart contracts and decentralized apps to blockchain, an...

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An Inside Look at Cardano, the 'Ethereum Killer' Built by Scientists
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An Inside Look at Cardano, the 'Ethereum Killer' Built by Scientists

An Ethereum co-founder built Cardano to fix Ethereum's scaling problems. The project's scientific pitch is compelling — ...

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Solana: Inside the Ultra-Fast Blockchain Built to Take On Ethereum
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Solana: Inside the Ultra-Fast Blockchain Built to Take On Ethereum

Ethereum's speed-focused rival claims a theoretical 50,000 transactions per second — but its profile comes with caveats ...

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Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, the EVM and the Second-Largest Crypto
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Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, the EVM and the Second-Largest Crypto

A plain-English look at Ethereum, the blockchain platform Vitalik Buterin launched in 2015, and why its smart-contract d...

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Bitcoin Basics: How a 2008 Pseudonymous Invention Became Digital Gold
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Bitcoin Basics: How a 2008 Pseudonymous Invention Became Digital Gold

A clear breakdown of how Bitcoin works: blockchain, proof-of-work mining, the 21 million coin cap, and why its status as...

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Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, Dapps and the ETH Token
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Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, Dapps and the ETH Token

An explainer of Ethereum, the 2015 blockchain platform that introduced smart contracts and the ETH token — and how it st...

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Bitcoin's 2008 Origin and 21 Million Cap: A Primer on the Leading Cryptocurrency
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Bitcoin's 2008 Origin and 21 Million Cap: A Primer on the Leading Cryptocurrency

An online finance explainer walks through Bitcoin's origins, blockchain mechanics and the 21 million-coin supply cap — a...

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Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data
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Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data

A plain-English guide to Chainlink, the Ethereum-based oracle network that feeds verified real-world data into smart con...

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What Is Binance Coin? A Look at BNB's Role in Binance's Ecosystem
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What Is Binance Coin? A Look at BNB's Role in Binance's Ecosystem

BNB, created in 2017, is Binance's native utility token, used for fee discounts, staking, payments and more. Here is how...

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Ethereum, Explained: How Smart Contracts Turned a Crypto Into a Platform
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Ethereum, Explained: How Smart Contracts Turned a Crypto Into a Platform

Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is better understood as a programmable blockchain than a simple digital coi...

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German Top Court Weighs If Leaked WhatsApp Chats Violate GDPR
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German Top Court Weighs If Leaked WhatsApp Chats Violate GDPR

Germany's highest ordinary court is weighing whether forwarding a private WhatsApp chat breaches the GDPR, in a dismissa...

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Binance Coin Explained: What BNB Is and How It Is Used
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Binance Coin Explained: What BNB Is and How It Is Used

A concise primer on BNB, the Binance-issued cryptocurrency, and the exchange services and discounts that give the token ...

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Ethereum, Explained: The Smart-Contract Blockchain Behind Ether
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Ethereum, Explained: The Smart-Contract Blockchain Behind Ether

Ethereum is far more than the second-largest cryptocurrency: its smart contracts and ERC-20 standard power thousands of ...

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Bitcoin Explained: The 2008 Creation, Blockchain and Why Supply Is Capped at 21 Million
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Bitcoin Explained: The 2008 Creation, Blockchain and Why Supply Is Capped at 21 Million

A plain-language primer on Bitcoin: the pseudonymous creator, the decentralized blockchain ledger, mining economics and ...

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Russia Approves 2027 Pre-Installed App List, Adds Yandex’s Alisa AI
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Russia Approves 2027 Pre-Installed App List, Adds Yandex’s Alisa AI

Moscow’s 2027 list keeps most mandatory Russian apps on phones, tablets and computers, drops Marusya and adds Alisa AI.

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