Kategorie: Technology

Meta is retreating from the metaverse. VR teams are being cut, studios closed, budgets reallocated – from virtual worlds to AI and AI glasses. After 70 billion dollars in losses, it's clear: VR hasn't failed because the technology doesn't work. It's failed because nobody really wanted it.

Google is turning Gemini into a shopping platform. Users can now search, compare and buy directly in the chat at Walmart, Shopify shops and Wayfair – without ever opening a traditional online shop. This is Google's answer to ChatGPT's commerce offensive and the beginning of a new era: agentic commerce, where AI assistants decide what you see, what you buy and where.

CES 2026 showed not individual gadgets, but ecosystems. Agentic AI that thinks along. Humanoid robots that climb stairs. Cars that learn new functions via software update. And PCs whose displays unroll at the press of a button. The show made clear: technology is becoming ambient, proactive and invisible – until you need it.

OpenAI is radically reorienting ChatGPT towards audio in 2026. A new voice model is set to launch early in the year that sounds more natural, responds faster and can hold conversations before you've finished speaking. The screen becomes optional, the voice becomes primary. Silicon Valley declares war on the screen.

2025 was the year Generative AI went from hype experiment to strategic infrastructure. New models achieved reasoning capabilities that would have been science fiction a year ago, agentic systems took over entire workflows, and the EU AI Act turned self-regulation into binding law. A look back at twelve months that fundamentally transformed the technology.

OpenAI is transforming ChatGPT into a platform. With the new App Directory and the Apps SDK, developers can for the first time integrate fully-fledged applications directly into the chat – from Spotify playlists to booking systems. A step that turns ChatGPT from chatbot into operating system.

Reindeer, sleigh, chimneys – the classic Santa Claus story sounds like a fairy tale. Yet with today's technology, a global delivery system that reaches billions of households in a single night would be surprisingly close to reality. A look at the technologies that could turn magic into feasibility.

Adobe is integrating its most important creative tools directly into ChatGPT. What sounds like a simple cooperation is in reality a strategic masterstroke that demonstrates how AI is fundamentally transforming the world of work – and who's pulling the strings.