Meta Cutting Reality Labs Workforce by 10%
Meta reportedly plans to eliminate 10% of the jobs in its Reality Labs unit.
That’s according to a report Monday (Jan. 12) by Bloomberg News, which characterizes the move as part of a lar...
More Than Half of Merchants Shift Fraud Spend From People to Tech
Merchants are discovering that fraud prevention has become less about stopping bad actors at checkout and more about managing risk across the entire payment journey, from account creation to post-tran...
ICE can track your phone and your every move
Hello everyone, Global computing is exploding, with only power and capital as real constraints, but not for long. Tech companies obviously are making moves to take these hurdles down, recently Meta di...
Ad Tech Briefing: Ad tech’s agentic gambit at CES
Last week saw the opening trade show of the year, with the Consumer Electronics Show hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, and (per usual) a coterie of ad tech companies were on standby.
Below is a potted r...
CES 2026: Agentic AI hype vs. media buyers’ pragmatism
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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was all about agentic AI and little else. Perhaps, that says less about the tech event itself ...
Wayfair Participates in Google’s New Standard for Agentic Commerce
Wayfair said Monday (Jan. 12) that it participated in the development of Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for agentic commerce and will soon enable shoppers to check out directly from Wayf...
Why Google Should Take Note of Meta’s Savvy Hire
Google might be running away with the AI market right now—as demonstrated by today’s Apple deal—but Meta Platforms can’t be counted out. Meta’s hiring today of former Trump administration of...
