By Fred Vogelstein When you talk to Jakob Uszkoreit you have to bring your “A“ game. It’s not because he’s evasive. It’s because the stuff he’s working on is cutting edge enough that you need every neuron firing to keep up with...

By Om MalikMike McCue, the founder of Flipboard, loves the media. He loves reading, watching, and immersing himself in what other Silicon Valley types derisively think of as “content.” McCue, not surprisingly, has spent the past 15 years creating a way...

By Fred Vogelstein When Shiv Rao was a cardiologist and investor in Pittsburgh, he saw a patient with a 10-year-history of breast cancer who seemed particularly tense during the appointment. “At the end of the encounter I asked her if there was something...

By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter. I so badly wish that its battery would last longer. And I wish Siri worked better on it, so...

  By Om Malik Pete Warden is the kind of fellow you would run into at the old eTech conference or at Foo Camp—an old-school engineer who is equally at home hacking hardware and writing code in the latest languages. It was at an eTech conference that I...

This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.  1994 was the year Netscape unveiled the first mainstream internet browser. 2007 was the year Apple unveiled the iPhone. And 2022, a hair over 2...

By Fred Vogelstein  Many still believe AI optimization is an oxymoron. You can’t optimize something as complicated and inherently unpredictable as a neural network. Even if it could be done, what AI chatbot would grant outside companies database access...

By Om Malik The ink had not even dried on the whopping $500 billion AI Project Stargate when a small meteor hit the planet “AI.” DeepSeek, a company associated with High-Flyer, an $8 billion Chinese hedge fund, released an open-source AI reasoning...

Eighteen months ago as the AI chatbot revolution was taking hold, Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi both realized something profound was happening to the way the internet worked.  AI web crawlers had begun inundating news and information websites...

By Om Malik Dennis Crowley has built his career at the intersection of emerging technologies and human behavior. Twenty years ago, as a 25-year-old inspired by Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map, he created Dodgeball—turning text messaging into a...