By Om Malik There are no two ways to say it — OpenAI, made the biggest acquihire in  Silicon Valley’s history. Sam Altman and his crew  bought Jony Ive and his coterie of ex-Apple hotshots for a whopping $6.5 billion. It is an all-stock deal for io...

By Fred Vogelstein There’s going to be ever building momentum in the coming months to take one of the most innovative companies in American history – Google –  and blow it up. The company has been judged an illegal monopolist in two Federal courts. And...

By Fred Vogelstein Patrick Hsu got noticed early as an academic superstar. He was taking classes and doing lab work at Stanford University when he was 14. He had his PhD from Harvard in biochemistry and biological engineering by the time he was 21.  It...

Patrick Hsu got noticed early as an academic superstar. He was taking classes and doing lab work at Stanford University when he was 14. He had his PhD from Harvard in biochemistry and biological engineering by the time he was 21.  It was cutting...

By Fred Vogelstein I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023.  Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There...

I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023.  Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users....

By Om Malik Sometimes, a car is not just a car. Take the new Volvo ES90, as an example. In its press release, Volvo touts computing power of 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS), thanks to dual NVIDIA Orin chips. The ES90 features lidar technology,...

Sometimes, a car is not just a car. Take the new Volvo ES90, as an example. In its press release, Volvo touts computing power of 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS), thanks to dual NVIDIA Orin chips. The ES90 features lidar technology, five...

I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding , slowly, obviously, because it’s cricket, I decided to set up two Philips Hue Iris lights in...

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...