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Eitan Shapiro

Technology Reporter

541 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

Claude Users Cancel Subscriptions Over Anthropic's Text Watermark
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Claude Users Cancel Subscriptions Over Anthropic's Text Watermark

A persistent, imperceptible text marker is pushing some Claude subscribers to leave, as developers and consultants warn ...

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Sika and Giatec Team Up to Push Digital Concrete Monitoring Across 100-Plus Markets
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Sika and Giatec Team Up to Push Digital Concrete Monitoring Across 100-Plus Markets

Giatec's concrete sensors and AI tools will ride Sika's global chemicals network as the two firms target faster, more su...

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Why Generative AI Is Quietly Narrowing the Innovation Pipeline It Was Meant to Widen
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Why Generative AI Is Quietly Narrowing the Innovation Pipeline It Was Meant to Widen

A cross-university working paper finds that AI used naively tends to deepen ideation, screening and consumer-insight bot...

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Expedia Opens San Jose AI Hub to Recruit From Big Tech's Backyard
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Expedia Opens San Jose AI Hub to Recruit From Big Tech's Backyard

Expedia has opened a San Jose engineering hub minutes from Google’s headquarters and is courting Big Tech AI specialists...

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New Executive Guide Maps How Companies Can Prepare for the Quantum Economy
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New Executive Guide Maps How Companies Can Prepare for the Quantum Economy

Rui Ribeiro's Portuguese and English guide offers leaders a practical framework for strategy, cybersecurity and talent b...

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Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Ahead of IPO
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Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion Ahead of IPO

Anthropic is reportedly negotiating a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart, whose world-model and chip-ef...

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Robot Fleet Was on Track for Four Million Units by 2022 as Electronics Leads Growth
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Robot Fleet Was on Track for Four Million Units by 2022 as Electronics Leads Growth

Nearly four million industrial robots were projected to be in use by 2022, triple the 2013 level, with China a third of ...

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Cloud Computing 101: The Framework Behind MarketScreener's 100-Stock Watchlist
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Cloud Computing 101: The Framework Behind MarketScreener's 100-Stock Watchlist

A guide to the four core cloud service models—IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and serverless—and what MarketScreener's fundamental and ...

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Trump Tariffs Chinese Drones at up to 100%, Sets 15% EU and 10% UK Rates
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Trump Tariffs Chinese Drones at up to 100%, Sets 15% EU and 10% UK Rates

Washington imposes 100% duties on high-risk Chinese drones and 25% on lighter models, while opening lower-tariff paths f...

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Nvidia’s $500 Billion Bet: Making AI Compute Wall Street’s Next Asset Class
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Nvidia’s $500 Billion Bet: Making AI Compute Wall Street’s Next Asset Class

Nvidia and six asset managers want to turn AI data centres into investable infrastructure. The real test is whether the ...

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Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Nearly 50 Companies, Including Shell, Philips, Fiserv and GE
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Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Nearly 50 Companies, Including Shell, Philips, Fiserv and GE

The ransomware group says it stole large volumes of data by exploiting software flaws, but company responses vary and Re...

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Perplexity Blocks Time's Markdown Ads and Calls the Practice Deceptive
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Perplexity Blocks Time's Markdown Ads and Calls the Practice Deceptive

Perplexity is blocking Time's markdown-based agent ads from its search index, warning of downgraded trust scores and set...

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Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO
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Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO

Shareholders are reportedly pushing for an October IPO valuing the AI startup at $2 trillion, a move that would leapfrog...

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Agora Beats Q2 Revenue Guidance With 18% Growth and Extends GAAP Profit Run
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Agora Beats Q2 Revenue Guidance With 18% Growth and Extends GAAP Profit Run

Agora, Inc. posted second-quarter revenue of $40.42 million, above the top end of its guidance, and guided Q3 to $41–42 ...

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China Turns 'New R&D Institutions' Into Core Engines for 2035 Tech Goals
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China Turns 'New R&D Institutions' Into Core Engines for 2035 Tech Goals

Flexible, market-run research bodies are now central to Beijing's innovation policy, backed by record R&D spending, new ...

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OpenAI Ships a Linux ChatGPT Desktop Preview—but the Browser Still Wins for Now
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OpenAI Ships a Linux ChatGPT Desktop Preview—but the Browser Still Wins for Now

OpenAI's proprietary Electron client brings ChatGPT, Work and Codex to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, but early testing find...

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From Teenage Carpenter to AI Founder: The Trunk Tools Story
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From Teenage Carpenter to AI Founder: The Trunk Tools Story

Sarah Buchner turned a construction career that began as a teenage carpenter into Trunk Tools, an AI startup helping con...

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X Opens Its Ranking Algorithm and Adds a Shadowban Checker
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X Opens Its Ranking Algorithm and Adds a Shadowban Checker

X published more of its 'For You' code on GitHub and introduced tools that let accounts see if ranking labels have limit...

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US Opens Door to Vetted Private Firms to Launch Offensive Cyber Operations
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US Opens Door to Vetted Private Firms to Launch Offensive Cyber Operations

A new White House memorandum lets vetted cybersecurity companies conduct surveillance and disruptive attacks against for...

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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol
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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, a mode it says runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x speed and 750 tokens per second for enterpr...

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Beijing Tells Food Delivery Platforms: Red-Light Waits No Longer Count Against Riders
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Beijing Tells Food Delivery Platforms: Red-Light Waits No Longer Count Against Riders

Three major food-delivery platforms agreed with Beijing regulators to stop counting red-light waits against couriers and...

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Goodway Group Tests Agentic Media Buying Against Supply-Path Controls
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Goodway Group Tests Agentic Media Buying Against Supply-Path Controls

The indie agency's strategic partnerships lead explains why AI agents must pass the same transparency and verification t...

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Apple Asks Court to Allow 5-15% Cut From External App Store Payments
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Apple Asks Court to Allow 5-15% Cut From External App Store Payments

Apple's new court filing proposes up to 15% commission on US transactions made outside its App Store billing system, wit...

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Egypt Moves to Digital Twin Operations for the Ismailia Canal
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Egypt Moves to Digital Twin Operations for the Ismailia Canal

Irrigation minister Hani Sewilam directs trial use of a telemetry-linked digital twin for the Ismailia Canal, aiming to ...

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Spotify to Label AI Artist Profiles and Remove Them From Recommendations
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Spotify to Label AI Artist Profiles and Remove Them From Recommendations

From mid-September, Spotify will exclude AI-generated artist identities from algorithmic playlists and radio, while new ...

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Starlink's One-Year Entry Into Côte d'Ivoire Puts Digital Sovereignty to the Test
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Starlink's One-Year Entry Into Côte d'Ivoire Puts Digital Sovereignty to the Test

SpaceX's Starlink has begun selling satellite broadband in Côte d'Ivoire under a 12-month licence, promising rural conne...

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Unitree’s IPO Marks Physical AI’s Shift From Lab Demo to Public Market
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Unitree’s IPO Marks Physical AI’s Shift From Lab Demo to Public Market

The robotics leader’s IPO, a 3.5 billion yuan fund from Shoucheng Holdings and a funding shift toward proven players sig...

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Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief
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Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief

SAS's applied AI leader explains 'boring' use cases that deliver fast ROI, while Zuckerberg's open-source essay and indu...

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AI-Driven Attacks Set to Fuel a New Cybersecurity Spending Wave
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AI-Driven Attacks Set to Fuel a New Cybersecurity Spending Wave

AI is making cyberattacks far more effective, and Gartner projects security spending will hit $240bn in 2026. Specialist...

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Google Unveils Pixel 11 Smartphones With Expanded AI and Pixel Tag Tracker
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Google Unveils Pixel 11 Smartphones With Expanded AI and Pixel Tag Tracker

Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 series with thinner cameras, stronger zoom, longer battery life and deeper AI integrati...

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