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Most AI benchmarks still do a mediocre job of explaining how useful models are in the kinds of agentic workflows businesses actually care about. That is not because benchmarks are useless. They are useful. But many of them are still optimized around narrow tasks, coding-heavy environments, academic-
Read the report →I have a habit when I review gaming hardware: I use the review as an excuse to finally play something I have been putting off. The RTX 5090 was my excuse to play Alan Wake 2, and I loved that game. The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ became my excuse to restart Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,…
Read the report →The web’s transaction model was designed for humans. You visit a page, see an ad, click a link, or buy something. Every monetization mechanism built over the past three decades, advertising, subscriptions, paywalls, affiliate revenue, assumes a person made a choice. That assumption is breaking. At A
Read the report →No Overpromising, Meeting Users Where They Are At WWDC, the expectation is for a long list of new features rolling across every OS Apple supports in its portfolio. This year, Apple reframed that. Rather than leading with what is new, the keynote centered on perfecting and homogenizing the experience
Read the report →At Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas last week, Jeetu Patel took the stage as President and Chief Product Officer in front of 20,000 attendees from 75 countries and delivered on a prediction he made two years ago: that Cisco would be unrecognizable as a company. The portfolio on display made the case wit
Read the report →I’m now on day three of product reviewing, and today I’m looking at the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x with the Snapdragon X2 Elite. This is a laptop that gets almost everything right. Good products tend to be boring, and that’s exactly what makes this machine so impressive. I was watching the movie The Hitman
Read the report →Normally I don’t talk about specs in a review. The spec sheet is not the product. The overall experience is the product, and the overall experience on this laptop is good. Not my favorite in the world, but good. I’m breaking my rule this time because the person considering this laptop is the most sp
Read the report →I have had the new Dell XPS 14 for a few months now. Let’s get the big statement out of the way first: this is the first Windows laptop I’ve used in a long time that feels like they cared about the user experience. Saying a Dell feels as nice and premium as a Mac…
Read the report →The RTX Spark is Microsoft and Nvidia’s joint statement about what the PC needs to become, and who gets to help define that. Microsoft Build, running this week in San Francisco, made the software half of that argument explicit. The Machine Behind the Agent The chip, formerly codenamed N1X, combines
Read the report →Cristiano Amon called 2026 the Year of the Agent. The label is directionally right, but it suggests a milestone that has been reached rather than one that is still being built toward. What Computex actually showed is a company positioning itself for a transition that is only beginning, one that will
Read the report →Microsoft Build 2026 was the week Windows stopped trying to win on the spec sheet and started trying to win on the thing that makes a computer worth using. For years the Windows answer to the Mac was some version of “we can match that.” A faster chip here, a borrowed feature there. This was…
Read the report →Google used Google I/O this week to announce intelligent eyewear partnerships with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Gemini and built on Android XR with Samsung and Qualcomm. The announcement was notable not just for what the glasses can do, but for how deliberately Google thought about wh
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