The Stepback
…Dominic Preston Sep 14, 2025 Computer chips, with a side of forever chemicals Supply, demand, and deregulation. Justine Calma Sep 7, 2025 AI agents are science fiction not yet ready for primetime…
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The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
…And some of Hollywood’s biggest AI partnerships have suddenly evaporated in ways that make it seem like studios might not be able to rely on the new technology coming out of…
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
…A day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate subscription, Microsoft is now teasing some type of Game Pass partnership with Discord. I suspect this will involve a bundle of Nitro…
The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026
…The external compute puck for the glasses has been redesigned, and a fingerprint sensor has been added to it (along with a lanyard so you can wear the puck and the glasses…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…In 1996, Ellison appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to hype what he called “the network computer.” (As part of the appearance, Oracle promised to give a network computer to each of…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Yeah, and a partnership with Nuro. And a partnership with Nuro, which is the platform there. Yes. Overall, you’re going to commit some $10 billion to autonomous efforts. You launched Uber…
Why IBM’s CEO doesn’t think current AI tech can get to AGI
…The Watson computer won Jeopardy! and that shocked people. It was really the first time that a computer could understand human language, think about open-ended questions, and was more right than…
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
…He also suggests the names “Axon” or something related to famed computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing. Musk writes, “Something Turing-related that doesn’t sound too ominous might be good…
Data centers are coming for rural America
…the backing they claimed. After a few conversations, he began pursuing a data center partnership with Sentinel Data Centers, a New York-based company that specializes in data centers serving the…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…But simultaneously, we had a lot of inbound interest in our assets and in partnerships. We were talking to creditors, we’re talking to all the people you would imagine about the…