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The New Stack

A Comunicano Tech positioning paper on what to retire, what to adopt, and how to tell the difference in 2026 The filter, before the list Every “best tools 2026” list on the internet right now is written by the same three people wearing different bylines, padded with affiliate links, and ranking whatever paid to be … Read more

Claude’s Voice Mode Is About to Get Much Smarter

Something interesting is happening inside Claude’s voice interface, and it’s a signal that tells us a lot about where AI assistants are heading. For the past few weeks, if you’ve been living where the devs are and poking around with Claude’s voice mode, you might have noticed a model selector sitting there. It looked like … Read more

Apple Is Already an MLB Partner. So Why Is Baseball Telling AI to Stay Out of the Dugout?

Major League Baseball just did something fascinating: It banned teams from using dugout iPads for AI-powered, in-game strategy calls. Yes, you read that correctly. Those Apple tablets you see players and coaches huddled around between innings? It turns out that about one-third of MLB teams were using them to let AI influence decisions about substitutions, … Read more

ChatGPT Work Isn’t a Feature. It’s a Land Grab.

OpenAI didn’t just ship a product this month. It made a bet on where work itself happens. ChatGPT Work, built on the new GPT-5.6 model family, is an agent that gathers context from your apps and files, breaks a goal into steps, and hands you finished output: sheets, slides, docs, dashboards, even full websites through … Read more

The Odds Are

When OpticOdds announced its integration with Perplexity Computer this week, the immediate reaction was probably something like: “Oh, another sports betting data partnership. Cool.” But if that’s where your analysis stopped, you missed the actual story entirely. This isn’t about sports betting. It’s about the wholesale restructuring of how enterprise-grade data reaches end users. Here’s … Read more

The Cold Shoulder

When the Door Closes on the Biggest Player in the Room Here’s what actually happened between Google and OpenAI — and why the story everyone’s telling misses the point entirely. I’ve been watching this unfold with the kind of fascination usually reserved for watching two tech giants play chicken on a highway. On the surface, … Read more

Zoom Slides Isn’t About Presentations. It’s About the Future of Work.

When I first looked at Zoom Slides, my immediate reaction wasn’t “Zoom built a PowerPoint competitor.” Instead, I saw another step in a journey I’ve been writing about for nearly twenty years. Back in January, while previewing the sessions I’d be moderating at ITExpo, I wrote that the future of Unified Communications wasn’t simply UC … Read more