Give This Rich Dude $1 or The Onion Disappears Forever
There was nothing funny about the way Jeff Lawson left Twilio, the startup he cofounded in 2008 and built into…
Sale or No Sale, TikTok Will Never Be the Same
The end of TikTok has begun. As the dust settles from a week of shockingly fast legislative action by the…
A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings
I ask Liang whether the prominence of AI in meetings might make humans less likely to attend. Knowing that there…
Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’
The other night I attended a press dinner hosted by an enterprise company called Box. Other guests included the leaders…
This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories
“The physical world is where we have most of our problems, because it is so complex and fast moving that…
Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work
Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with…
Photography Is No Longer Evidence of Anything
For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of…
Y Combinator’s Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
When Michael Seibel lost his position at the startup incubator Y Combinator, he didn’t find out in typical tech industry…
The Mind-Blowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly
If all that is true—and there’s no way to tell right now—Groq might well pose a threat to the dominance…
My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
Two words in this statement popped out to me like a flying dinosaur in a mixed-reality headset: when possible. When…
This Company Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites
I might have inadvertently insulted Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor when I interviewed them about their new AI startup last…
Here’s the Thing AI Just Can’t Do
A few months ago, I was called in at the last minute to participate in an onstage fireside chat at…
How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm
What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just…
Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules
On January 24, Apple’s Macintosh computer turns 40. Normally that number is an inexorable milestone of middle age. Indeed, in…