Tech private equity buyouts freeze as market grapples with AI uncertainties

OpenAI's IPO could reshape the tech landscape, intensifying competition and regulatory scrutiny while offering investors a high-stakes AI bet. The post OpenAI prepares to file for IPO in coming weeks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.

Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the best-selling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money,” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, The Shift, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture.hing right now: scale AI across teams, accelerate adoption, and show measurable results.

AI lab is preparing for $1tn listing with bankers Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and lawyers at Cooley

Richard Eltringham and Barbara Riddell point to the decline in general practice as the reason why people are turning to AI for health advice. Plus a letter from Dr Katie Baker Your report (One in seven in UK prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing doctor, study finds, 13 May) will no doubt be greeted with the usual hand‑wringing about the decline of human connection in healthcare. But the more honest explanation is far simpler: many of us no longer see our registered doctor in any meaningful sense. Continuity of care has quietly evaporated. General practice has become a rotating cast of locums, telephone triage and “someone will call you back at some point between 8am and the heat death of the universe”. The idea of a named GP – someone who knows your history, your face – has become NHS folklore, spoken of wistfully but rarely encountered in the wild. Continue reading...

By the middle of 2026, we can easily assume on thing about AI – it is far from the experimental stage. If not before, 2026 is the year when AI is moving deeper into products, workplaces, governments, and everyday decision-making. This shift is visible in the massive AI conferences that are now being held by […] The post Top 9 AI Events and Conferences in 2026 that you Must Attend appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Jamf has a new CEO: former CTO Beth Tschida. She succeeds previous CEO John Strosahl, who himself replaced Dean Hager on his retirement. Tschida has served as interim CEO since March. Jamf-using IT pros should be pleased. Tschida is an engineer who joined the company in 2018 as senior vice president, engineering and became CTO four years later. She has led the company’s expansion into security as well as its ongoing mission in device management. She takes the helm as device management, and IT more generally, struggle with the potential and the peril of artificial intelligence deployment across industry. ‘We are making AI work on Apple’ “Over the last eight years, I’ve had the privilege of working with an exceptional team to build the leading platform for managing and securing Apple at work,” said Tschida in a statement. “Now, AI is reshaping how organizations work, and we are making AI work on Apple. We’re building autonomous management so devices manage themselves within boundaries, o