AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
Don’t be fooled by the question mark in the title of an article published this month in the…
Silicon Valley’s Elite Financial Advisers Say This Era of Wealth Is Different
If anyone in tech has already started their Hot IPO Summer, it’s Silicon Valley’s elite wealth advisers. Two…
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou…
Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100
Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it…
The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
Anthropic is locked in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and…
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned…
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI…
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
I recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing…
Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did…