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,...

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 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 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 Fred Vogelstein Every new drug that goes into development is a multi year, multi billion dollar gamble. Those that make it to approval – through the five to ten year gauntlet of clinical trials and regulatory scrutiny – grant their creators...

By Om Malik The shift to AI has gotten me back into tinkering mode. A friend pushed me into using Cursor early, and I am using it all the time—not to write apps or create software, but to figure out how things work. Cursor is an AI-enhanced...

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...

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...

Welcome to Crazy Stupid Tech, a newsletter about the tech-of-technology that shapes the future If you don’t know us, here’s a quick introduction. • I am Fred Vogelstein, an investigative technology and biotech journalist. I’ve been writing about...