AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened

“Hi, my name is Peter, and I’m a Claudeholic.” It was August 2025 and Peter Steinberger was addressing a meetup in London called Claude Code…

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 conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus.…

Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’

Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might be worth the risk, because…

Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product

Sometime in the next year or two, Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will step onto a stage and tell the world that his company has…

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body

Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026,…

This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts

The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common. As is the idea of…

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 to Steve Jobs and he instantly shut…

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 officers, and corporate executives in attendance are…

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

When the bombs hit in Iran, I thought of Jack Dorsey. In 2009, he and I were both part of a contingent of technology people…

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 and tech entrepreneur had spent the past…