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With the Halo Collar’s smart features and advanced technology, these families don’t need to choose between freedom and safety for their pupsMo Beck and Queso (Photo: Halo Collar)Published June 8, 2026 08:00AMAll dogs want to experience freedom—but as responsible owners know, safety comes first. Halo Collar’s real-time GPS tracking and customizable virtual fences allow pet parents to set boundaries and keep tabs on their pups, while letting them run, sniff, and explore to their heart’s content. These families use Halo Collar to keep their four-legged companions safe and to enable all kinds of adventures. From a wilderness-loving pup recovering from…

Competence is one of the most rewarded qualities in the workplace—it earns trust, opens doors, and creates opportunities. When something important needs to get done, organizations naturally gravitate toward the people who have demonstrated that they can handle it. For many high achievers, competence becomes a source of identity as much as a skill. They are the person who can step into a difficult conversation, untangle a messy problem, manage a crisis, or hold a complicated project together when everyone else is overwhelmed. Over time, others come to rely on them, and they come to rely on that role, too.…

Denys Vorobyov, CEO at EltexSoft, where 35 engineers build software for some of the biggest, well-known brands in the world.Vendors promise transformation. Consultants promise productivity gains. Boards demand strategy. And somewhere in the middle, leaders are expected to make high-stakes decisions about technology, most of which they never understood from the inside.This article offers an honest picture of what large language models (LLMs)—the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and dozens of AI tools now embedded in your business—actually are, how they work and where they can fail you if you are not careful.An LLM is not a database. It is…

Published June 8, 2026 06:00AMOverview: Finding the right Father’s Day gift for the outdoor dad who has everything takes more than a quick Amazon search. This guide covers 12 tested picks across categories—sun protection, hydration, organization, apparel, and everyday carry—chosen for dads who are hard to shop for and impossible to impress with generic gifts.Best Father’s Day Gifts: Quick Picks Last week, my eight-year-old daughter asked me what I would buy with two hundred thousand million dollars. As I began to rattle off a remarkably boring answer involving compound interest and generational wealth, she stopped me and cut to the…

Adrian Younge isn’t typically excited about performing cover songs. But earlier this year, the polymath composer and promoter behind the Los Angeles-based Jazz Is Dead record label and event production company felt called to put his stamp on a popular piece of music.  Younge arranged charts for the Midnight Hour band and singer Loren Oden to collaborate on a unique recording: a human cover of one of the first AI-generated hits. “Through My Soul” is an AI-created soul song “performed” by faux female Enlly Blue that debuted in October on Billboard’s Emerging Artist chart. It has since racked up millions…

Suman Sharma, Head of PAM Engineering at Ping Identity. (Co-founder/CTO, Procyon Inc.)Consumer expectations have shifted dramatically. Shoppers ask AI agents to curate wardrobes; travelers rely on them to rebook flights in real time; and patients consult digital health agents for preliminary advice. These autonomous systems plan, use tools, maintain context across sessions and execute multistep actions with minimal human oversight.For consumer-facing enterprises building these experiences, from retail and banking to travel and healthcare, the opportunity is immense. So are the risks. Without the right controls, consumer-facing AI agents can expose organizations to regulatory violations, privacy breaches, eroded trust and reputational…

One of the first things I noticed when I went to live in former Eastern Bloc countries was how often conspiracy theories came up in everyday conversation. The institutions of society had lost trust long ago, so the official version of anything was always in doubt. People formed their own narratives to explain nearly everything. Today we’re seeing something similar in America. An annual Gallup survey finds very little trust across almost every institutional class, including businesses. For example, when asked which institutions they trust “a great deal” or “quite a lot,” only 15% said they trust large corporations, 11%…

Laying out the ins and outs of a pause in AI-builds-AI.gettyIn today’s column, I set the record straight on what Anthropic indicated about a potential global pause in the unrelenting race to build AI with AI. Here’s the deal. Anthropic’s recent blog post articulated their interest in using recursive self-improvement to task AI with building more advanced AI; see my in-depth coverage at the link here. They could have just focused on the technical method at hand but opted to also bring up an important and quite serious societal consideration.The consideration is that since no one can say for sure…

When it comes to generative AI, mastering the art of crafting a basic prompt that will return a solid response is a great first step. But it’s a bit like buying a sports car just to drive it to the grocery store. It may get the job done, but there’s so much more it can do. Once you’re past the stage of asking an AI to draft an email or explain a concept to you like you’re five, it’s time to put the tech to actual work. Here are five intermediate ways to weave AI into your daily workflow. Reverse…

Apple iPhone Air: will the first folding iPhone ship in white only?Getty ImagesApple is expected to release its first folding iPhone, rumored to be called the iPhone Ultra, this fall. And a new report says that there won’t be a black version, only white — which would be a notable break with tradition. ForbesiOS 26.5.1: Apple Update Fixes Charging Bug Found On iPhone 17 Series And iPhone AirBy David PhelanThe report comes from serial leaker Sonny Dickson, who has revealed detailed images which claim to be a folding iPhone dummy in a post on X.“First look at the iPhone Fold…