Cognitive Warmup. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai was at Stanford University to deliver the 2026 commencement speech. If I look beyond the excitement of the speech and the official blog post accompanying the entire speech, Pichai faced a massive student walkout and was heavily criticized during Stanford University’s 135th convocation ceremony at Stanford Stadium…
Opening thoughts. A 6G milestone has been achieved in Japan, with researchers at Tokushima University finding a way to transmit data at speeds of 112 gigabits per second, or Gbps. This breakthrough is built on a newly developed terahertz wireless communications system powered by micro-combs – special photonic devices mounted on microchips that generate optical…
Cognitive Warmup. A Pizza Hut franchisee, which operates more than 110 Pizza Hut outlets in North America, is suing the restaurant giant for using AI that has slowed down the once high-performing outlet, resulting in delays that have impacted sales, seen customer satisfaction decline and generally created chaos for restaurant operations. Chalk’s Pizza Northeast, which…
