Weekly output: AT&T iPad day pass, AI + used-car sales, AI + home health care, Mint Mobile, Kalshi, orchestrating AI agents, AI + car rental

I got back Saturday morning from my fourth trip in four years to Brazil for Web Summit Rio, which is enough times for me to feel like I can now write one of my conference cheat sheets for that talkfest. This Tuesday, meanwhile, I will travel to a new-to-me event: the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Unify conference in Austin, where I’m leading a panel Thursday about how edge and on-device AI can improve connected devices in homes, workplaces and cities.

6/10/2026: AT&T Adds Cheap, Unlimited-Data Day Pass for iPad Users, PCMag

The iPad-only stipulation for this plan is a little weird and I’m not sure how many people would even need it. But it’s worth remembering that your first day pass is free if you take a 5G-enabled iPad to someplace that turns out to be WiFi-deprived.

6/10/2026: Humans + AI: The new high-performance model, Web Summit Rio

I hadn’t heard of the Brazilian used-car marketplace Mobiauto before Web Summit offered me this panel, but I enjoyed a chance to learn a little about the country’s vehicle market by interviewing Bruno Guidone, the company’s IT superintendent.

6/10/2026: The future of healthtech has no address, Web Summit Rio

The last Web Summit Rio panel I got offered–in an e-mail last Sunday afternoon–got me on the conference’s center stage, meaning my biggest crowd at this year’s event and a place in its YouTube livestream. I quizzed David Pares, chief medical officer of the Brazilian healthtech startup ISA Saúde, about their plans to shift more health tests and procedures to people’s homes instead of making them go to hospitals.

6/10/2026: Mint Mobile Increases Data Allocations on Its Plans, Keeps Prices Level, PCMag

I may have spent more time struggling to write a lede that would exhibit minimal creativity than I put into writing the rest of this post about a fairly self-explanatory bit of news.

6/10/2026: Kalshi Co-Founder: Prediction Markets Will Be Bigger Than the Stock Exchange, Even If You Lose Money, PCMag

Luana Lopes Lara, the Brazilian-born co-founder and COO of the prediction market Kalshi, spoke onstage on Web Summit Rio’s opening night Monday. I gave the company’s PR shop all of Tuesday to respond to my request for an update on the profit-loss ratio among Kalshi users that it had shared with the Wall Street Journal in early May, but they never got back to me.

6/11/2026: Agent orchestration, Web Summit Rio

My first of two panels Thursday had me quizzing Alessio Alionco, co-founder and CEO of the Brazil-founded startup Pipefy, about how it puts agentic AI models to work for clients.

6/11/2026: Mobility, hard assets and AI applications, Web Summit Rio

The pitch to drivers at the São Paulo-based car-rental platform Turbi (pronounced “tour-bee”) reminded me of car2go, the point-to-point car-sharing service that announced its exit from the North American market at the end of 2019. But back then, AI models weren’t a thing that companies were leveraging to optimize things like fleet management, so I asked Turbi founder and CEO Daniel Prado how the company has been able to take advantage of these advances.

Mint Mobile Is Fighting Shrinkflation with More Data at the Same Price

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Americans Are Losing Patience With Their Internet, and These States Are Complaining the Most

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Mint Mobile is now carving up to $900 OFF the Galaxy S26 — here is why it's one of the best Samsung deals on the web today

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Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Mint Mobile’s New Bundle Packs 5G Home Internet & Unlimited Wireless Into One Simple Deal

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New Mint Mobile deal gets you a full year of 5G internet AND unlimited wireless for only 45 bucks per month — this isn't a joke

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