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Eitan Shapiro

Technology Reporter

589 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

Anthropic's Claude Weapons-Work Findings Reframe the AI Safety Debate
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Anthropic's Claude Weapons-Work Findings Reframe the AI Safety Debate

Anthropic says a Yemen weapons cell and a suspected Iran-linked actor used Claude for weapons software and naval targeti...

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Gigaom Lays Out Q4 2026 Research Agenda for Security, AI Storage and Dev Tools
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Gigaom Lays Out Q4 2026 Research Agenda for Security, AI Storage and Dev Tools

Gigaom's new research calendar names seven coverage areas and invites vendors to submit written pitches, with developer-...

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Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Launch Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground
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Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Launch Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground

The AI startup is debating a model release to counter OpenAI's enterprise momentum, with the timing tied to its expected...

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Why Amodei, Musk and Altman Are Suddenly Calling for an AI Slowdown
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Why Amodei, Musk and Altman Are Suddenly Calling for an AI Slowdown

Three rival AI chiefs have reportedly aligned on slowing the development of large language models, triggering market jit...

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OpenArt Arena Ranks AI Models by Creative Task — and Seedance 2.5 Leads Video
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OpenArt Arena Ranks AI Models by Creative Task — and Seedance 2.5 Leads Video

OpenArt's new public leaderboard splits AI image and video rankings by job, from lip sync to e-commerce, with ByteDance'...

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Why long-running AI agents drop compliance rules without an alert—and why bigger context windows won't help
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Why long-running AI agents drop compliance rules without an alert—and why bigger context windows won't help

Multi-day AI workflows can silently lose hardcoded governance rules as context grows. The fix is deterministic guardrail...

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Not IPO in 2026 and Backs Slower AI Development
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Not IPO in 2026 and Backs Slower AI Development

OpenAI's CEO ends Wall Street's expected 2026 listing, citing safety and alignment work, after joining Anthropic's call ...

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Anthropic Blocks Accounts in Suspected Attempt to Use Claude for Bioweapon Research
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Anthropic Blocks Accounts in Suspected Attempt to Use Claude for Bioweapon Research

Anthropic banned accounts tied to a grant application that sought to make chikungunya virus more harmful and shared find...

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Musk and Tech Allies Attack Former Anthropic Researcher Over Viral AI Extinction Warning
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Musk and Tech Allies Attack Former Anthropic Researcher Over Viral AI Extinction Warning

Viral AI-extinction warnings from ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon have drawn Elon Musk, Bill Ackman and David Sacks ...

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Space Sovereignty Is Rising, But Going It Alone Could Cost More and Break Interoperability
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Space Sovereignty Is Rising, But Going It Alone Could Cost More and Break Interoperability

From Davos to Tokyo, space leaders are redefining national control over launch, data and orbital infrastructure. The eme...

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Anthropic AI Fluency Chief Says Knowing When Not to Use AI Is the Real Skill
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Anthropic AI Fluency Chief Says Knowing When Not to Use AI Is the Real Skill

Kristen Swanson warns that judging when to delegate to AI is becoming a core workplace skill—and that misjudging it can ...

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OpenAI Begins GPT-6 Astra Rollout as AGI Claims Split Its Leadership
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OpenAI Begins GPT-6 Astra Rollout as AGI Claims Split Its Leadership

The new model targets browser control, coding, scientific and multi-step work, while Brockman says AGI has arrived and A...

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Germany’s Isar Aerospace Launches Europe’s First Commercial Orbital Rocket
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Germany’s Isar Aerospace Launches Europe’s First Commercial Orbital Rocket

The Spectrum rocket reached low Earth orbit from Norway, giving European customers a commercial alternative to Arianespa...

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Pix Sets Single-Day Transaction Record as Brazil Fights US Tariff Case and Pursues Global Links
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Pix Sets Single-Day Transaction Record as Brazil Fights US Tariff Case and Pursues Global Links

Brazil's Pix processed 318.1 million operations on Friday, a record that arrives amid Washington's 25% tariff justificat...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Escalate AI Model Battle Ahead of Mega IPOs
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OpenAI and Anthropic Escalate AI Model Battle Ahead of Mega IPOs

GPT-6 Astra, Fable and Mythos 5.1 land weeks before expected IPOs, with reported revenue and valuation figures setting u...

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The AI Confidence Trap: Workers Say They’re Ready, but ROI Is Stuck at 57%
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The AI Confidence Trap: Workers Say They’re Ready, but ROI Is Stuck at 57%

New survey data shows 90% of employees feel confident using AI, yet half say it can take longer than doing the task manu...

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Business Wire Touts NewsTrak as AI-Era Press Release Analytics Hub
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Business Wire Touts NewsTrak as AI-Era Press Release Analytics Hub

The wire service's NewsTrak aggregates release views, link clicks and online placements, tying PR measurement to AI-driv...

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FAB Becomes First MEA Bank to Complete Tokenised Deposit Test With Citi on Swift Ledger
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FAB Becomes First MEA Bank to Complete Tokenised Deposit Test With Citi on Swift Ledger

First Abu Dhabi Bank completed live 24/7 USD tokenised deposit transactions with Citi on Swift’s Ledger MVP, validating ...

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OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.
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OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.

OpenAI says advertising revenue is on track to reach $1 billion a year as it rolls out ChatGPT Ads Manager to India, Eur...

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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Test the Hidden Tech Behind Future Earthlike Planet Searches
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NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Test the Hidden Tech Behind Future Earthlike Planet Searches

An experimental coronagraph aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will attempt to directly capture starlight r...

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Google Maps Adopts ‘Lake America’ Name for US Users After Trump Order
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Google Maps Adopts ‘Lake America’ Name for US Users After Trump Order

Google becomes the first major online map provider to show ‘Lake America’ to US users, while Apple, Bing and MapQuest di...

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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted
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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 companies call for urgent cyber defenses, while CISA reports attacks on 100-plus wat...

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Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit
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Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit

Israel filed 15,180 patents in 2024 to Slovakia's 466, yet Slovakia runs one of Europe's strongest factory bases. Their ...

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AI's Memory Stack: Bernstein Says Demand Is Spreading Beyond HBM
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AI's Memory Stack: Bernstein Says Demand Is Spreading Beyond HBM

Bernstein sees AI's memory bottleneck broadening from HBM into DRAM, NAND and storage, with six Outperform names across ...

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag Now Reads Full Slack Conversations and Acts Unprompted

Anthropic’s Slack agent now reads full conversations, then chooses whether to reply, open a thread, route work or stay s...

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Pasqal's Nasdaq Debut Surges 73% as Quantum Investing Heats Up
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Pasqal's Nasdaq Debut Surges 73% as Quantum Investing Heats Up

French quantum computer maker Pasqal jumped as much as 73% on its Nasdaq debut before settling near a 40% gain, highligh...

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CNET Group's 'Apple a Day' Series Looks Back as Apple's Sept. 9 Event Nears
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CNET Group's 'Apple a Day' Series Looks Back as Apple's Sept. 9 Event Nears

CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, PCMag, Popular Science and ZDNET are rolling out daily Apple milestones and a guessing conte...

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AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One
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AI Gave Professionals an Executor Before They Learned to Manage One

A business-school teacher argues the real AI adoption barrier appears after the first answer: staff recognise a wrong re...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Dates, Discount Code and AI Programming Details
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Dates, Discount Code and AI Programming Details

The San Francisco startup conference runs October 13–15 with six stages, an AI-focused agenda and a 15% Founder Pass dis...

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Yandex Set to Launch AI-Powered Mobile Operator Backed by Beeline
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Yandex Set to Launch AI-Powered Mobile Operator Backed by Beeline

The app-store rollout points to an Aug. 28 launch for Yandex SIM, a Medium MVNO running on Beeline's infrastructure and ...

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