Axios

Companies are starting 2024 grappling with the fallout from a security vulnerability they've known about for months.

Driving the news: Xfinity said last month that hackers had exploited a high-severity vulnerability in network hardware developed by Citrix, resulting in the theft of 36 million customers' sensitive information.

After more than a decade of development, delivery drones are finally going mainstream this year.

• Still, they won't be quite as ubiquitous as the blue Amazon vans or brown UPS trucks in your neighborhood — yet.

Looming fights over copyright in AI are likely to set the new technology's course in 2024 faster than legislation or regulation.

Driving the news: The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft on December 27, claiming their AI systems' "widescale copying" constitutes copyright infringement.

It's the only generation born fully in the 21st century: the oldest are about 13, and the youngest will be born in the coming year.

The big picture: Enter Generation Alpha, the first entirely online cohort. Its members have grappled with a climate crisis and pandemic — and can spend money more easily at their age than even their savviest close elders.