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 Om MalikMike McCue, the founder of Flipboard, loves the media. He loves reading, watching, and immersing himself in what other Silicon Valley types derisively think of as “content.” McCue, not surprisingly, has spent the past 15 years creating a way...

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 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...

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...

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 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 Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter. I so badly wish that its battery would last longer. And I wish Siri worked better on it, so...

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...