While concerns about the deployment of artificial intelligence are still active and current, including issues of plagiarism and a reduction in critical thinking, the growing threat posed by AI companions – AI chatbots designed to simulate friendship, emotional support, and, in some cases, romantic relationships with users – has quietly moved into the pockets of…
Michael Kitces and Ben Henry-Moreland ask whether these long-term problems require a solution other than AI? JANUARY 21, 2026 By Ben Henry-Moreland and Michael Kitces As companies grow and merge over time, they accumulate technical debt. Technologies, capabilities, and processes that in a perfect world would be retooled and improved every time the company grows…
As payers deploy advanced technologies to review claims, health systems like Mercyhealth and WellStar are fighting back with stricter contracts and predictive AI. In recent years, the fierce struggle to combat denial has gradually intensified. During this week’s The Winning Edge for Defeating Denials webinar, revenue cycle leaders from Mercyhealth and Wellstar Health System discussed…
SoundHound and Salesforce are betting big on agentic AI. The next big evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be agentic AI, in which AI agents will perform tasks autonomously, with little or no human supervision. The technology carries the promise of a workforce of AI agents who work alongside everyday employees. It’s no…
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate the deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Among the investors participating in the round is…
We may not have a killswitch for AI as a whole, but Mozilla gives users the option to disable AI in its Firefox browser (even though it could have simply not included these features in the first place). In a blog postthe company announced that it would include a toggle in the next version of…
Five9 announced its decision to collaborate with Google Cloud for common customer experience solutions. This follows a series of announcements from the contact center giant earlier this week focused on improving customer experience with AI services. Their latest partnership will see both providers collaborate towards an effective customer solution, enabling enterprise customers to improve their…
When artificial intelligence emerged as a marketing tool, I felt threatened. Not by replacement, but by the idea that others might think that AI could replace the basic work we do as communicators. The more I watched professionals rely on AI without critical thought, the clearer it became: artificial intelligence is exactly what the name…
Visteon (VC) just used CES 2026 to showcase a group of AI-focused products, including its Snapdragon-based high-performance computing cockpit platform, an AI-ADAS module powered by NVIDIA, and a new cognitoAI integration from TomTom. Check out our latest analysis for Visteon. Despite the flurry of CES announcements regarding AI cockpits and ADAS, Visteon’s recent stock price…
The AI arms race is expected to continue well beyond 2026. Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is not expected to slow down anytime soon, much less in 2026. AI hyperscalers have all informed investors that they expect data center spending to increase in 2026. As a result, several companies currently look promising. I think these…