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...

I’ve spent over a decade following the evolution of computational photography, watching as algorithms and machine learning transform how we capture and enhance visual content. During this journey, I’ve tracked numerous companies pushing boundaries in...

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 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...