So …  I’ve only skimmed the Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz New Yorker opus on Sam Altman. But my immediate reaction was that they didn’t ask the right question.  A story that asks whether Altman can be trusted seems self-evident to me. Maybe the...

Jessica Powell still vividly remembers her first set of funding pitches for Audioshake six years ago. They were a disaster.  She’d spent a decade at Google rising to become its head of all communications. She knew many of the venture capitalists in...

Apple is 50 today. And while the first 25 years was bumpy. Boy, have they made it look easy in the past 25 years. Every year, like clockwork, Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook have regaled us with innovation after innovation. The company almost went bankrupt...

Apple is 50 today. And while the first 25 years was bumpy. Boy, have they made it look easy in the past 25 years. Every year, like clockwork, Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook have regaled us with innovation after innovation. The company almost went bankrupt...

I have been crowing about OpenClaw for a few months now. It is AI’s democratization moment. Why it matters isn’t  the actual software, but more about the possibility it represents: intelligence on the cheap. Then Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent two hours at...

It’s easy to be skeptical when you first hear about Enveda and its 30-something founder Viswa Colluru. The business he’s in – making medicines from plants and other natural products – is filled with charlatans. And Colluru lately has been making not just...

The artificial intelligence revolution will be only three years old at the end of November. Think about that for a moment. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today – debating whether we are in one of...

Every so often, we find ourselves in the middle of a massive technological wave that starts to upend our presumptions and our ideas about the past, present, and future. These waves come with excess—optimism, excitement, hype, and speculation....

Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated-looking websites online to find out what’s going on in their world. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai at...

Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better way to help companies handle hacker attacks to their websites. Prince and a friend had already built an open source system to help anyone...