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…
At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars
It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military…
The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos
After years of chaos in the global supply chain, Ryan Petersen, CEO of the logistics company Flexport, felt…
Wall Street Has AI Psychosis
Before last week the name Alap Shah didn’t ring a bell for many people. The 45-year-old financial analyst…
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…
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
When OpenAI declared a “code red” this month to refocus its teams on competing with Google, I couldn’t…
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…
Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat
Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. Sort of. About a quarter of ABC’s usual audience couldn’t see…
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…