Big podcast promo backlog! All from #websummit 2025

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ICONIQ (@ICONIQCapital)

WebSummit Qatar에서 ElevenLabs 공동창업자 겸 CEO @matiii가 ICONIQ의 @slpierre, TechCrunch의 @RebeccaBellan과 함께 음성 AI가 확장될 때 발생하는 문제와 신뢰(trust)가 우선되어야 하는 이유에 대해 토론했습니다. 음성 AI의 확산과 신뢰 구축에 대한 논의가 핵심이었습니다.

https://x.com/ICONIQCapital/status/2019452858949672984

#elevenlabs #voiceai #websummit #trust

Weekly output: RootMetrics wireless network report

DOHA, Qatar–Between two daylong conferences in D.C. Thursday and Friday, scrambling to finish up some longer posts so I could put them on a January invoice instead of waiting yet another month, and getting ready to fly almost 7,000 miles here for Web Summit Qatar, I only had one post appear under my byline this week.

Patreon readers, however, got one extra post from me: my annual look into my income sources for the previous year.

1/26/2026: Verizon Has Slight Edge Over AT&T, T-Mobile, Except in One Key Category, PCMag

I’ve been covering RootMetrics’ nationwide testing of wireless carriers for years, but this was the first time I could quiz my former Light Reading editor Mike Dano for a story about them. He moved from that trade pub to become an analyst for RootMetrics’ parent firm Ookla last year, and I could see Mike’s knowledge of the business show up in the new RootMetrics report’s detailed breakdown of network infrastructure progress at AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.

#Doha #Ookla #Qatar #RootMetrics #WebSummit #WebSummitQatar #wirelessCarriers #wirelessNetworkPerformance #wirelessNetworks

𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐6 𝐐𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐖𝐞𝐛 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭! Get ready to connect, innovate, and meet our founder!

📅 Date: Tuesday, Feb 05
📍 Booth A6-36, ALPHA 6

Are you joining us in Doha? We’re excited to see you there! 👇

#SocialMediaAutomation #AIForMarketing #ContentMarketing #TechInnovation #DigitalMarketing #SocialMediaStrategy #StartUps #WebSummit

Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App

Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.

12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company

I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.

12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag

This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.

12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag

The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.

12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag

Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.

12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag

I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.

12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag

Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.

12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.

#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID

Hey GLOBALS! 🇵🇹 Web Summit proved it: the real magic happens off-stage. Pitch on the Bus & our talk with CEO of SWEAT cut through the hype: real utility, real communities! 🚀

👇 Full story:
https://clubglobals.com/globals-on-tour-lisbon-2025/

#ClubGLOBALS #WebSummit #PitchOnTheBus #founders #investors

Hollywood Teme a la IA – James Cameron Califica a la IA Generativa de «Horripilante»

James Cameron, director de películas como Avatar y Titanic, ha expresado su profunda preocupación por la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) generativa, calificándola de «horripilante» y destacando sus riesgos. Cameron, conocido por explorar temas de IA en películas como Terminator, advierte que la tecnología actual tiene el potencial de desestabilizar la economía y socavar la creatividad humana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzrAZIUmijI

El cineasta James Cameron ha manifestado una postura de alarma respecto al rápido avance de la Inteligencia Artificial generativa. En una reciente entrevista en la cumbre Web Summit Qatar 2025, Cameron comparó la situación actual con los temas que exploró en su clásica película Terminator, donde una IA se vuelve hostil hacia la humanidad.

La crítica de Cameron no se centra solo en el potencial apocalíptico, sino también en los riesgos inmediatos para la industria creativa y la sociedad:

El comentario de Cameron se produce en un momento en que la IA se ha convertido en un punto central de tensión en Hollywood. Los gremios de guionistas y actores han luchado activamente para establecer salvaguardas contra el uso de la IA para replicar o reemplazar el trabajo humano en sus recientes acuerdos laborales, demostrando que la preocupación de Cameron es compartida por gran parte de la industria.

#arielmcorg #avatar #eticaia #cine #creatividad #hollywood #iagenerativa #infosertec #jamescameron #portada #tecnologia2 #terminator #websummit

Cory Doctorow na #WebSummit:

A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪

«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
https://www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p3/entrevista/merdificacao-curso-internet-pior-2155061

When you attend big tech conferences like Websummit, Slush, what’s usually your main aim?

#Tech #Startups #WebSummit #Squads #TechCommunity