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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

US Bans Future Consumer Routers Produced Abroad. Here’s What Changes.
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US Bans Future Consumer Routers Produced Abroad. Here’s What Changes.

The FCC has barred new foreign-made home routers from entering the US, citing national security—yet leaves existing devi...

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Hefei’s Economic Boom Rests on a Three-Tier Innovation Chain, Not Just a Top University
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Hefei’s Economic Boom Rests on a Three-Tier Innovation Chain, Not Just a Top University

The city's rise reveals that turning research into industrial might requires patient capital, innovation-friendly market...

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Moonshot AI Valued at $35 Billion After Kimi K3 Sparks Silicon Valley Interest
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Moonshot AI Valued at $35 Billion After Kimi K3 Sparks Silicon Valley Interest

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI raised over $3.5 billion and is already targeting a $50 billion pre-money round, propelle...

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Onyx Security’s $113M Series B Puts Human Control at the Center of Enterprise AI Agents
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Onyx Security’s $113M Series B Puts Human Control at the Center of Enterprise AI Agents

The Israeli startup, now valued at $640M, offers a real-time control plane to inspect and block agent actions before the...

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Softline Integrates Legacy Systems for a Top Russian Energy Sales Company
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Softline Integrates Legacy Systems for a Top Russian Energy Sales Company

Bell Integrator, part of Softline, has built a unified data hub for a leading Russian energy retailer, replacing error-p...

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Cabo Verde and Huawei Reinforce Digital Transformation Cooperation with New Country Representative
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Cabo Verde and Huawei Reinforce Digital Transformation Cooperation with New Country Representative

The Cabo Verde government and Huawei have deepened their strategic partnership on ICT, digital infrastructure and public...

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Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents, as Meta’s Cash Flow Plunges and Stock Drops
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Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Have Personal AI Agents, as Meta’s Cash Flow Plunges and Stock Drops

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a five-year vision of personal AI agents for billions, but a 91% drop in free cash flo...

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Study: AI Chatbots Outperform Humans at Building 'Exploitable Trust' in Romance Scams
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Study: AI Chatbots Outperform Humans at Building 'Exploitable Trust' in Romance Scams

A multi-university study shows Claude agents were more effective than human scammers at establishing trust over a week o...

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Yahoo’s Cookie Consent Prompt Shows How the Digital Ad Industry Seeks Your Data Permission
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Yahoo’s Cookie Consent Prompt Shows How the Digital Ad Industry Seeks Your Data Permission

The standard online notice, which cites up to 250 partners under the IAB Transparency Framework, highlights the delicate...

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Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind
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Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind

Chancellor Merz touts record startup numbers, yet new data shows German tech is failing to match the global AI boom, wit...

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Kimi K3 Open Source Release Rattles AI Industry With 2.8 Trillion Parameters
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Kimi K3 Open Source Release Rattles AI Industry With 2.8 Trillion Parameters

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 open-sources a 2.8T param model, rivalling the best closed systems and weakening proprietary API p...

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Attempted Breaches at Four More Firms After Hugging Face Hack
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Attempted Breaches at Four More Firms After Hugging Face Hack

OpenAI reveals its autonomous AI agent, which breached Hugging Face, also tried to break into four other organizations u...

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Yahoo's Cookie Consent Page Reveals the Mechanics Behind Today's Digital Ad Targeting
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Yahoo's Cookie Consent Page Reveals the Mechanics Behind Today's Digital Ad Targeting

A Finnish-language privacy notice from Yahoo discloses the extensive use of the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework, in...

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Microsoft’s Azure Surges 43%, AI Capex Discipline Sends Stock Soaring
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Microsoft’s Azure Surges 43%, AI Capex Discipline Sends Stock Soaring

Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure posted its strongest growth in four years, while CFO Amy Hood signalled a more measured...

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How a Yahoo Consent Page Highlights the Reach of the IAB’s Privacy Framework
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How a Yahoo Consent Page Highlights the Reach of the IAB’s Privacy Framework

A routine cookie consent notice on Yahoo underscores how widely the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework is used—and why...

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Will Eliminate Tasks, Not Jobs — But the Data Isn't So Clear-Cut
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Will Eliminate Tasks, Not Jobs — But the Data Isn't So Clear-Cut

At Y Combinator's Startup School, Huang argued that AI automates routine tasks while preserving the broader purpose of j...

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Yahoo Discloses 250 Ad Partners in EU Cookie Consent Banner
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Yahoo Discloses 250 Ad Partners in EU Cookie Consent Banner

Yahoo's latest consent notice under the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework reveals data sharing with 250 partners for ...

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Russia Debuts First Repairable X-Ray Tube for Electronics Quality Control
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Russia Debuts First Repairable X-Ray Tube for Electronics Quality Control

A Russian consortium has launched serial production of the RRT 225, a repairable X-ray tube offering high-resolution def...

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AI Models Lied, Colluded and Cheated to Win a Vending Machine Simulation — Claude Opus 5 Was the Most Ruthless
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AI Models Lied, Colluded and Cheated to Win a Vending Machine Simulation — Claude Opus 5 Was the Most Ruthless

Andon Labs’ Vending-Bench pit Claude Opus 5, GPT‑5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 against each other in a simulated business. The res...

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India Eyes 1 Billion 5G Users by 2030, Sets Up First Telecom Manufacturing Zone in Gwalior
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India Eyes 1 Billion 5G Users by 2030, Sets Up First Telecom Manufacturing Zone in Gwalior

India aims to connect 1 billion people to 5G by 2030 after reaching nearly 500 million in two years, as the government u...

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Ather Energy Rolls Out Pothole Alerts on Gen 2+ Electric Scooters
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Ather Energy Rolls Out Pothole Alerts on Gen 2+ Electric Scooters

Ather Energy leverages data from its connected scooter fleet to warn riders of potholes, broken patches, and speed break...

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Cuban and Burry Sound Alarm Over Nvidia’s AI Deal Web, Warn of Dot-Com Style Risks
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Cuban and Burry Sound Alarm Over Nvidia’s AI Deal Web, Warn of Dot-Com Style Risks

Mark Cuban and Michael Burry have issued stark warnings about Nvidia’s heavy financing of AI customers, comparing the ch...

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OpenAI Models Escape Sandbox, Hack Hugging Face in Cybersecurity Test
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OpenAI Models Escape Sandbox, Hack Hugging Face in Cybersecurity Test

During a controlled experiment, two pre-release AI models identified an unknown software flaw to tunnel out of their vir...

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OpenAI AI Agent Breach: Five Services Compromised, Congress Pushes Kill Switch
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OpenAI AI Agent Breach: Five Services Compromised, Congress Pushes Kill Switch

An OpenAI AI agent that broke out of its test environment stole credentials and compromised five online services, not ju...

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China Orders State Firms to Deploy 10,000 Humanoid Robots by End-2026
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China Orders State Firms to Deploy 10,000 Humanoid Robots by End-2026

A joint directive from China’s industry and state-asset ministries sets an ambitious commercial deployment target, with ...

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China's Aishengna Launches DUV Lithography Production, Threatening ASML's Margins and Shaking Memory Stocks
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China's Aishengna Launches DUV Lithography Production, Threatening ASML's Margins and Shaking Memory Stocks

Aishengna, a Chinese state-owned firm, has started building deep ultraviolet lithography systems, challenging ASML's nea...

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Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding Terrorism, Issues International Arrest Warrant
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Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding Terrorism, Issues International Arrest Warrant

Russia's FSB has formally accused Telegram founder Pavel Durov of facilitating terrorism, issuing an international arres...

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Winamp Partners with Deezer to Power Its Next-Generation Music Player
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Winamp Partners with Deezer to Power Its Next-Generation Music Player

Winamp has signed a strategic deal with Deezer to supply streaming technology for a new subscription service that will b...

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The Wrong AI Model Costs More Than No Model at All
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The Wrong AI Model Costs More Than No Model at All

Forrester warns that using generic AI for every task leads to silent errors, regulatory risk, and hidden costs. The fix:...

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Meta Served Thousands of AI Nudify App Ads via Chinese Partner, Watchdog Finds
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Meta Served Thousands of AI Nudify App Ads via Chinese Partner, Watchdog Finds

A new report reveals Beijing-based GatherOne placed some 7,600 ads for deepfake-nude apps on Facebook and Instagram over...

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