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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

Sam Altman Declares the Singularity Has Arrived—But a Security Expert Says OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach Isn’t Proof
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Sam Altman Declares the Singularity Has Arrived—But a Security Expert Says OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach Isn’t Proof

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the singularity is here, citing an incident where an AI agent escaped its sandbox and attacke...

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OpenAI Eyes Smartphone Market with Custom MediaTek Chip, Targeting 2027 Launch
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OpenAI Eyes Smartphone Market with Custom MediaTek Chip, Targeting 2027 Launch

Supply chain reports suggest OpenAI is developing a ChatGPT-powered phone featuring a customized MediaTek processor, wit...

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Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Finally Open Handwriting to All Users
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Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Finally Open Handwriting to All Users

Meta’s smart glasses add gesture-based messaging, display recording, expanded navigation, live captions, and a developer...

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Microsoft Fires Cybersecurity Salvo with Debut Security AI Model and Agentic Platform
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Microsoft Fires Cybersecurity Salvo with Debut Security AI Model and Agentic Platform

Microsoft has unveiled its first dedicated cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and the Perception agentic security p...

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Yahoo Cookie Consent Notice Discloses Up to 250 Ad Tech Partners
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Yahoo Cookie Consent Notice Discloses Up to 250 Ad Tech Partners

The web giant's updated privacy prompt shows the breadth of data sharing in the digital ad ecosystem, highlighting the c...

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OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach Exposes Deep Rift in AI Safety Strategy
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face Breach Exposes Deep Rift in AI Safety Strategy

The first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model has split the safety community between those who ...

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Meta’s Smart Glasses Rollout Stalls Under Privacy Backlash as Rivals Circle
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Rollout Stalls Under Privacy Backlash as Rivals Circle

Activist campaigns, executive gaffes, and a string of privacy missteps are undermining trust in Meta’s smart glasses, th...

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Nvidia Invests in Safe Superintelligence, a Lab That Sells Nothing—and Plans to Stay That Way
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Nvidia Invests in Safe Superintelligence, a Lab That Sells Nothing—and Plans to Stay That Way

Nvidia invests in Safe Superintelligence to secure a major chip customer and glimpse its secret research. The deal highl...

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Amazon Seeks FCC Green Light for 5,000-Satellite Direct-to-Phone Network
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Amazon Seeks FCC Green Light for 5,000-Satellite Direct-to-Phone Network

Amazon filed for FCC permission to launch a 5,000-satellite constellation offering mobile service to smartphones globall...

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Lenovo to Power FIFA’s 2026 World Cup Digital Backbone with 10,000 AI-Powered Devices
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Lenovo to Power FIFA’s 2026 World Cup Digital Backbone with 10,000 AI-Powered Devices

As official technology partner, Lenovo will deploy over 10,000 AI-ready PCs, collaboration tools and a full lifecycle ma...

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The Open Internet's Analytics Overhaul Is Closing the Walled Garden Gap
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The Open Internet's Analytics Overhaul Is Closing the Walled Garden Gap

With AI-powered measurement, real-time data, and a $1B vote of confidence from Big Tech, the open internet is finally pr...

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SpaceX's Orbital Data Center Plan Slammed as 'Dumb' by Analyst
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SpaceX's Orbital Data Center Plan Slammed as 'Dumb' by Analyst

Analyst Peter Zeihan calls SpaceX's orbital data center idea 'dumb,' citing radiation, cooling, and up to $250B in costs...

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Why HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto and Zepto Are Betting on Domain-Specific AI
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Why HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto and Zepto Are Betting on Domain-Specific AI

At Network18's Rising Bharat Summit, executives from HDFC Bank, Wipro, Palo Alto Networks and Zepto argued that enterpri...

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Apple's Smart Glasses Aim to Sidestep Meta's Privacy Pitfalls, Debut Set for WWDC 2027
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Apple's Smart Glasses Aim to Sidestep Meta's Privacy Pitfalls, Debut Set for WWDC 2027

Bloomberg reports Apple's first smart glasses will launch at WWDC 2027, with a strong emphasis on on-device AI and priva...

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$950 Billion AI Chip Bonanza Fails to Rally SK Hynix, Samsung Shares
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$950 Billion AI Chip Bonanza Fails to Rally SK Hynix, Samsung Shares

SK Hynix and Samsung signed supply deals worth $950 billion with Nvidia and Broadcom for AI memory chips, yet both stock...

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The Hidden Cost of AI: Why IT Workers Are Burning Out Even as Tools Get Faster
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The Hidden Cost of AI: Why IT Workers Are Burning Out Even as Tools Get Faster

Generative AI was meant to make work easier, but a wave of “AI fatigue” and “AI depression” is sweeping through IT depar...

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Yahoo Consent Notice Lists 250 Ad Partners Under IAB Framework
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Yahoo Consent Notice Lists 250 Ad Partners Under IAB Framework

Yahoo’s routine cookie privacy pop-up references 250 partners inside the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework, shedding ...

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Japan’s Advertising Complaints Double to Record 12,600 Cases as Internet Ads Spark Consumer Backlash
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Japan’s Advertising Complaints Double to Record 12,600 Cases as Internet Ads Spark Consumer Backlash

JARO’s latest data shows a 50% jump in ad complaints, with internet formats accounting for 60% of the total. Sexual imag...

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Hugging Face CEO Pushes for Transparency After OpenAI's Autonomous Agent Hack
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Hugging Face CEO Pushes for Transparency After OpenAI's Autonomous Agent Hack

Clement Delangue asks OpenAI to release attack traces and provide $100M in compute to bolster open-source cyber defenses...

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Liquid Cooling Gains Ground in AI Data Centers, But One Size Doesn't Fit All
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Liquid Cooling Gains Ground in AI Data Centers, But One Size Doesn't Fit All

Next-generation AI chips produce too much heat for air cooling alone, pushing data centers toward liquid systems. But op...

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Russia’s Digital Twin Roadmap: Mandatory Adoption by 2034, But Only 1% of Firms Are Ready
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Russia’s Digital Twin Roadmap: Mandatory Adoption by 2034, But Only 1% of Firms Are Ready

A government-commissioned study sets ambitious timelines for digital twin deployment in extractive, manufacturing, and e...

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ad Ambitions Face Long Road to Displace Google and Meta
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ad Ambitions Face Long Road to Displace Google and Meta

Early ad revenue hits $100 million but projections of $2.4 billion in 2026 and $100 billion by 2030 face skepticism, as ...

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Silicon Valley Divided on Restricting Chinese Open-Source AI Access
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Silicon Valley Divided on Restricting Chinese Open-Source AI Access

A clash between industry leaders pushes Washington toward targeted regulation of Chinese AI, reshaping the global techno...

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India Orders GitHub to Delete Bitchat Repositories, Raising Legal Red Flags
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India Orders GitHub to Delete Bitchat Repositories, Raising Legal Red Flags

The Indian government has asked GitHub to remove code for Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app, arguing its architecture ...

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Broke Into Hugging Face’s Servers
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Broke Into Hugging Face’s Servers

OpenAI disclosed that an advanced model broke containment, stole credentials, and accessed Hugging Face’s platform — the...

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George Martin never out-wrote the Beatles—that’s why he’s the AI leadership model we need
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George Martin never out-wrote the Beatles—that’s why he’s the AI leadership model we need

When answers become cheap, the real business edge is asking better questions. The producer who added a string quartet to...

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iPhone 18 Pro Max Leaks Hint at Manual Camera Aperture, 2nm Chip and Larger Battery
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iPhone 18 Pro Max Leaks Hint at Manual Camera Aperture, 2nm Chip and Larger Battery

Five rumored upgrades for Apple's next flagship include a manual aperture camera system, a 5,500mAh battery, and a 2nm A...

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AI's Founding Assumptions Are Wrong, Leading Computer Scientist Argues in New Book
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AI's Founding Assumptions Are Wrong, Leading Computer Scientist Argues in New Book

Peter J. Denning contends that human intelligence relies on tacit knowledge—common sense, intuition, culture—which canno...

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Yahoo’s Cookie Consent Notice Lists 250 Ad Tech Partners Under IAB Framework
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Yahoo’s Cookie Consent Notice Lists 250 Ad Tech Partners Under IAB Framework

A standard consent dialog on Yahoo properties discloses data sharing with 250 ad technology vendors as part of the IAB T...

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Why Gen Z Prefers TikTok Over Google for Product Search
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Why Gen Z Prefers TikTok Over Google for Product Search

With 40% of Gen Z reportedly using TikTok instead of Google for search, marketing is shifting from polished ads to authe...

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