You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots In the spring of 2007, I was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. This was probably…
Gary Marcus Used to Call AI Stupid—Now He Calls… Back then–only months ago—Marcus’ quibbling was technical. But now that large language models have become a global…
BuzzFeed and Gawker Meme-ified Reality With This… Ben Smith thought that he’d be spending the end of April banking interviews about his book that goes on sale next…
How the Streaming Era Turned Music Into Sludge I woke up one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music. Instead I just listened to sludge—a blur of…
Tech Layoffs Reveal America’s Unhealthy… It’s so nice that everything’s back to normal at the office now, isn’t it? If “normal” means mass layoffs, empty…
Lyft’s Vibe Shift Signals the End of the Gig… Last week, Lyft suddenly announced that its cofounders, president Logan Green and CEO John Zimmer, would step away…
The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped…
The Man Who Discovered Network Effects… ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would…
The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank’s… At first glance, the Silicon Valley Bank debacle seems to be a cut-and-dried financial caper. The executives…
How to Start an AI Panic Last week the Center for Humane Technology summoned over 100 leaders in finance, philanthropy, industry,…