Tech journalist. Lives in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Got his start writing for his high school newspaper. When not covering tech trends, he's swimming laps, gaming on PS4, or vibe coding through the night.
Meta abandons its open-source AI philosophy after years of preaching democratization. Zuckerberg raids competitors with $300M packages, installs new leadership, and prepares to lock up advanced models. The $65B pivot reveals how profit trumps principles.
Claude just learned to control your work apps directly. No more copying between AI chat and real tools. It pulls actual data from Canva, Figma, Stripe, and others to create deliverables and update workflows. The assistant just became your coworker.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
Experienced developers work 19% slower with AI coding tools but think they're 20% faster. New study challenges AI's flagship use case and shows why self-reported productivity gains can't be trusted.
OpenAI launches AI-powered browser to challenge Google Chrome's dominance. The move targets Google's data collection engine that powers its $307B ad business. With 400M ChatGPT users as potential adopters, this could reshape the web.
Jack Dorsey built a messaging app that ditches the internet entirely. Bitchat runs on Bluetooth networks within 30 meters, needs no servers or accounts, and stores nothing permanently. A weekend project that challenges how we think about digital communication.
CoreWeave just paid $9 billion to buy Core Scientific, eliminating $10 billion in future lease payments. The AI company decided it was cheaper to buy its landlord than keep paying rent. Markets weren't impressed with the math.
Researchers are hiding secret instructions in academic papers to trick AI reviewers into giving positive feedback. At least 17 papers from top universities contained these invisible prompts. The practice exposes deep flaws in peer review.
Former Manchester City captain raises $42M to fix Britain's broken delivery system with AI and electric trucks. Her startup Hived claims 99% on-time delivery while legacy carriers struggle with outdated technology built for letters, not e-commerce.
New research finds AI models often fabricate step-by-step explanations that look convincing but don't reflect their actual reasoning. 25% of recent papers incorrectly treat these as reliable—affecting medicine, law, and safety systems.
Meta offered AI researchers $300 million packages to join its new lab. Every single person said no. The rejections reveal how top talent values mission over money in the race to build artificial intelligence.
Developers who love Claude Code but hate terminals now have an open-source solution. Claudia transforms AI coding into a visual desktop app with custom agents, project management, and sandbox security—no command line required.
