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The marketing pitch for enterprise AI’s autonomous agents has started to sound almost like a fairy tale: Hand one a task or objective, walk away, and it figures out the rest. It runs on its own, reasons through changing conditions, adapts as circumstances evolve, and delivers results before you think to ask. The promise of software that functions like a digital colleague has been seductive. Amazon Web Services has an even more ambitious version of that vision in store. At AWS Summit on Wednesday, the company unveiled new agentic AI capabilities for its platform, aimed at everyday enterprise operations. The…

The new Fokus Touchscreen displays are designed for meeting rooms and can be drawn on or used for presentations like a traditional whiteboard.ALOGICAustralia’s Alogic has announced a whole slew of new computer displays, which it is unveiling at this year’s InfoComm show, being held from June 17 through 19 in Las Vegas. The company has been doing well with its range of 5K and 6K screens made for the Mac market, but it is now expanding its offerings with four new products. InfoComm visitors can see the Alogic Aspekt Touch 27-inch, Folio portable monitors, Fokus wall-mounted touchscreens, the latest IRIS…

Electric SUV maker Rivian Automotive (Nasdaq: RIVN) has cut hundreds of jobs as it seeks to achieve profitability, the company confirmed. The layoffs come just days after the automaker launched its new R2 mid-size SUVs to the public. Here’s what you need to know about Rivian’s layoffs and how the company’s stock price has reacted. What’s happened? Yesterday, Rivian confirmed it was initiating another round of job cuts. The last time the EV maker initiated mass layoffs was in October, when it laid off more than 600 workers following the Trump administration’s elimination of the $7,500 electric vehicle credit. At…

John Kostoulas is VP, Market Positioning and Strategy at Dayforce, and a global HR technology and transformation expert.​In the first quarter of 2026, I spent a lot of time in CIO and IT leader events. Across conversations, there seemed to be a consensus: The first wave of enterprise AI adoption was fast, visible and, in many cases, deceptively easy. Organizations launched faster than ever, teams experimented and, above all, every executive conversation included AI strategy somewhere between cybersecurity and growth targets.For CIOs and IT leaders, this created a rare moment of elevation. Their perception shifted from infrastructure operators to business…

Published June 17, 2026 03:38AMWe’d been paddling the Owyhee River for four days, through the rugged basalt canyons and sprawling plains of eastern Oregon’s high desert. We’d drifted through stretches of water so wide and flat as to seem like the surface of a mirror, and navigated churning choke-points jammed with boulders.It was early October, and the river was low. At times it felt more rock than water. Now, we were in the deepest part of the canyon. We’d only managed to get here on ultralight, one-person packrafts, and these rafts were the only way we’d get out again, three…

Billions of venture dollars are flowing into a single bet: If you can generate a medically sophisticated answer fast enough, you have solved something meaningful in healthcare. The pitch is seductive. Doctors are under extreme time pressure, patients wait months, and large language models (LLMs) can now produce answers that are polished, empathetic, and clinically credible in seconds, at a fraction of the cost. The problem is that the bet is built on a category error, and medicine may spend the next decade paying for it. Knowing what matters The hard part of medicine has never been retrieving information. It…

We hauled heavy loads through Alaska’s Chugach and the Italian Dolomites to find the best backpacking packs at every price point—budget, mid-range, and premium included.Our team logged months of trail miles across the globe to find the best backpacking packs for every budget, from sub-$250 haulers to premium expedition bags. (Photo: Robin Mino)Published June 17, 2026 04:02AMA backpacking pack has one seemingly simple job: carry everything you need without making you feel miserable. But when it comes down to it, that task is surprisingly complicated. The right pack can make a 15-mile day feel manageable; the wrong one can leave…

Omri Kohl is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pyramid Analytics, driving the future of data and AI for enterprise decision-making.​Companies are spending billions on AI, but many aren’t getting the results they need to succeed. They’re bullish on using AI to generate insights and accelerate strategic business decision making, but the gap between delivering analytical conclusions and executing the correct action has only widened.A wealth of shiny, AI-powered toys isn’t making business decisions better or even helping teams arrive at them faster. Instead, stakeholders are growing increasingly disillusioned with their AI outputs, even as those outputs become quicker and easier…

‘Trail Runner’ is now the home of everything from hard-hitting journalism and brutally honest gear reviews to trail-obsessed poems, doodles, and cartoons.Listen to this articleListen (Photo: Andy Cochrane)Published June 17, 2026 03:26AMEditor’s Note: Our sister publication Trail Runner just got a refresh. You can check it out at www.trailrunnermag.com.Dear fellow dirt lovers, Recently, while slipping down the loose, steep washes of Southern California, I’ve spotted an uptick of trail runners on routes I once considered “mountain-goat-level only.” And I’ve also seen big, rowdy clubs at local trail races that had been simple, silent, and somewhat stoic affairs just years before.…

If one thing’s true about this moment in tech history, it’s that as soon as you think you’re keeping pace with the leading edge of AI—poof!—the edge moves. This is a perennial anxiety, but I’ve never heard tech insiders so vocal about it. It came up constantly as we spoke to CEOs, founders, investors, and analysts while assembling this special issue on the new age of autonomy. “Every couple of months, we see such massive changes that it’s impossible to predict what’s going to happen on what timeline. We’re planning by the seat of our pants.” —Neel Ajjarapu, product lead…