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Humanoid robot illustration ​Three announcements from GTC 2026 that will quietly reshape how your company buys, builds, and competes with technology over the next five years. By Greg Doig March 2026 · 6 min read Every year, Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference produces a few headlines and a lot of noise. This year was different. What Jensen Huang laid out in his GTC 2026 keynote wasn't a product launch — it was an infrastructure argument. The kind that gets quietly filed by enterprise architects and then acted on over the following 18 months. Three things stood out as genuinely consequential. Not because they were the most dramatic announcements in the room, but because they represent inflection points that your business will eventually have to respond to — whether or not you were watching the livestream. · 10x cheaper AI inference with Vera Rubin · 15+ humanoid robot companies partnered with NVIDIA · 1 GW factory-scale AI deployments announced SHIFT ONE — Running A...

ScamAgent: Researchers Just Built an AI That Can Scam You — And It's Terrifyingly Good By Tech Brewed | Cybersecurity & Privacy This isn't a chatbot doing party tricks. This is a research-grade proof-of-concept that blows the doors off what we thought AI-powered fraud could look like. And it arrives at a moment when phone scams are already costing Americans billions of dollars per year, with scammers increasingly using AI technology and AI-powered tools to make scam texts harder to spot and calls harder to doubt. Let's break down what's happening, why it matters, and what you can do about it — including practical tips to protect your personal information. ScamAgent is an AI pipeline that combines a large language model (LLM) with advanced text-to-speech (TTS) technology to simulate a complete scam phone call. But unlike a simple chatbot or a single "jailbreak" prompt, ScamAgent operates across multiple turns of conversation — it remembers what was said,...

Photographer: Jakub Żerdzicki | Source: Unsplash One-page printable checklist: protect yourself from account takeover and modern scams Print this page and keep it near your desk. Share it with family members (especially anyone who’s been targeted by scam calls/texts). The 5-step protection checklist 1) Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) — start with email Turn on MFA for your email first (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud). Then turn on MFA for: banking, Apple ID / Google account, social media, shopping sites. Prefer an authenticator app when available. Never share MFA codes with anyone who contacts you. Done when: Email + banking + Apple/Google accounts have MFA enabled. 2) Use strong, unique passwords (with a password manager) Stop reusing passwords across sites. Use a password manager to generate long random passwords. Make your master password long and memorable (a passphrase). If a site offers passkeys , consider using them. Done when: Every important account has a unique passwor...

If you’ve ever had that uneasy feeling that “someone could probably get into my accounts if they really wanted to,” you’re not being paranoid—you’re being realistic. Account takeover and social-engineering scams are exploding because criminals don’t need to “hack” you in the Hollywood sense. They just need you to reuse a password, trust the wrong message, or share one tiny piece of personal info publicly. As criminals shift tactics, these account takeover attacks have become a significant threat to your accounts, your brand reputation (if you run a business), and your financial assets. Here’s a practical, no-fluff prevention checklist you can implement today to prevent account takeover fraud (prevent ATO) and reduce unauthorized access. 1) Turn on multi-factor authentication (start with your email) Multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds a second proof step beyond your password—often a code or app approval—so stolen login credentials alone aren’t enough to break in. Start with your emai...

Photographer: Nahrizul Kadri | Source: Unsplash ​You're Using AI Wrong — And the Data Proves It Anthropic analyzed nearly 10,000 real Claude conversations. Here's what separates high-performers from everyone else. Most people treat AI like a vending machine. You put in a prompt, you get out an answer, and you move on. If the output looks good, you use it. If it doesn't, you try again with a slightly different prompt and hope for better luck. That approach is leaving a massive amount of value on the table — and now we have the receipts. Anthropic just released their AI Fluency Index , a behavioral analysis of 9,830 real conversations with Claude. The findings reveal a clear gap between users who are genuinely getting powerful results and those who are essentially spinning their wheels. The good news: the habits that separate them are learnable. The surprising news: most of us aren't practicing them. Here are five data-backed insights that should change how you work w...

​AI Arms Race Heats Up: Anthropic Unleashes Claude Opus 4.6 + Multi-Agent “Agent Teams,” While Perplexity Bets Big on Model Council. The AI world never sleeps—and right now, in early February 2026, it feels like it’s sprinting. Two major labs just dropped features and model upgrades that could meaningfully change how developers, researchers, and power users get work done. Anthropic rolled out Claude Opus 4.6 , its most capable model to date, along with an experimental Agent Teams system that enables multiple AI agents to collaborate like a real dev team. Almost simultaneously, Perplexity AI introduced Model Council , a clever ensemble approach that brings together several frontier models in a virtual conference room to debate and refine their answers. These aren’t incremental tweaks. They’re signs that the frontier is shifting from single-model chatbots toward coordinated, multi-agent, multi-model systems that handle complex, real-world tasks with dramatically less human oversight. Le...