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...

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...

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 Fred Vogelstein For the past two years – since ChatGPT ignited the modern AI revolution – I’ve wondered aloud to anyone who would listen about when AI was going to enable the large language model of me. Instead of crawling the public...

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...

By Fred Vogelstein and Om Malik 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...

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...

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...

By Om Malik I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he launched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt. His original pitch for Cloudflare was “Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the masses” that would take a few minutes to set up. Others like Akamai...

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...