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...

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...

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 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 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...

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 internet, it would create a...

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 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 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...