Bayern Munich in mid-July. Paris Saint-Germain on August 3. FC Barcelona today. Same three products, same two-part structure, same company signing them one league at a time while everyone treats each one as its own headline. I called this ten days ago: La Liga and Serie A were the conspicuously open lanes in Google’s sports … Read more
Inside Google’s AI Land Grab in Sport Google signed Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain to matching three-year AI-and-device deals within three weeks of each other, on top of five years of the same structure running through the NBA, the FA, Arsenal, Liverpool and the NWSL. Gemini’s monthly users doubled to 900 million in the same … Read more
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
Over the past two decades of writing about telecom, mobile and the evolution of how we communicate, one thing has become very clear to me: when companies make it harder to reach them, consumers don’t stop trying. They simply change channels. As someone who has spent more time than I care to admit on the … Read more
The invisible layer wins. Every billion-dollar sports business running today, streaming rights, fantasy platforms, betting exchanges, and performance analytics all run on APIs that most executives couldn’t name and most investors never audit. That’s the opportunity and the risk sitting in the same sentence. The Plumbing No One Talks About Is Now the Product Over … Read more
There’s something wonderfully nostalgic about The Jetsons, the 1960s animated sitcom that gave us a peek into “the future” as imagined from the space age. Orbit City’s flying cars, robot maids, and meals in pills still evoke laughter and awe. But take a closer look, and you’ll find that many of those fanciful ideas aren’t … Read more
Just when you think your phone is “yours,” think again. This week, two stories, one out of India, the other from China, highlight a power shift that should have every smartphone user, OEM, and carrier paying attention. Control over your device isn’t in your hands anymore, it’s moving upstream to governments and platforms. India: Security … Read more
Start with the numbers, not the mythology. Pew’s latest report, Americans Social Media Use 2025, puts WhatsApp at about one third of U.S. adults, up from 23 percent in 2021. That is a serious mid-tier platform in a country where everyone assumed SMS and iMessage had permanent squatter’s rights. Drill into Pew’s earlier Americans Social … Read more
Three years ago, ChatGPT lit a fuse. Not just under OpenAI, but under the entire tech industry. Like the iPhone in 2007 or the launch of Skype in 2003, it wasn’t just a product drop — it was a moment. In the span of 36 months, the world moved from wondering what this chatbot thing … Read more
WhatsApp: The Silent Front Door to AI Over the last two decades, we’ve watched communications shift, from desktop dialers and browser-based apps to mobile-first, message-driven interactions. We’ve seen the rise (and often the fall) of platform plays. But now, as AI becomes the next wave, the real story isn’t in new apps. It’s in existing … Read more
