Author: Jay Wong

Following comprehensive discussions earlier this year with leaders from enterprises to early-stage innovators, Stepmark Partners has published our latest market analysis on the Talent Management ecosystem. This report details the dual-adoption of AI by both companies and job seekers, outlining the strategic implications for corporate leaders. Key Strategic Takeaways:

Executive Summary Building on our 2025 Year in Review report, which highlighted the rapid advancements and challenges in the AI landscape, Stepmark Partners presents our forward-looking predictions for 2026. These insights draw from emerging trends in technology, regulation, and market dynamics, offering a glimpse into potential developments in the AI industry. While these predictions may…

Zuck’s vision of having AI generate marketing collateral and automatically run ads is closer to reality than most people think. Ironic that Gemini is making this process so easy, which means Meta has a clear path in making it happen. Shrimp cocktail (Fri/Sat only) from Cook’s Seafood in Menlo Park. From Meta’s Q2 2024 earnings…

My wife recently stopped using the Oura Ring and became a Fitbit user, so I became a proud owner of a new tech gadget. If you haven’t heard of the Oura Ring before, it’s a ring-like device that you wear on your finger and throughout the day, it records your biometrics data such as heart…

Open Source Catches Up, and Consumer Hardware Is Ready Open-source large language models have quietly caught up to their closed-source cousins. Models like OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20B, Meta’s Llama, and many models coming out of China can now deliver reasoning, code generation, and conversational ability that would have seemed like science fiction three years ago. And they’re…