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…
Author: Steven Levy
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…
AI Safety Meets the War Machine
When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make a major…
Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy…
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 leads the pack in researching how models…