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 hired four more OpenAI researchers this week, escalating Zuckerberg's talent war with $100M packages. The exodus follows Meta's disappointing Llama 4 launch as the CEO personally hunts AI stars to close the innovation gap.
Google's free Gemini CLI turns your terminal into an AI coding assistant that reads files, writes code, and runs commands across entire projects. Get 1,000 daily requests at no cost with this open-source alternative to paid tools.
Building apps used to require years of coding skills. Now Claude Code lets anyone describe an idea in plain English and watch AI build it in real-time. This changes who can create software, but setup still needs technical steps.
Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers with $100 million signing bonuses as Zuckerberg builds a "superintelligence" team. Sam Altman dismisses the blitz, but departures suggest money talks in AI's talent war.
Meta won a major AI copyright case but the judge warned this victory won't last. He ruled the company's use of stolen books was legal while predicting future cases will go the other way—essentially giving authors a roadmap to win.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted private emails showing a startup founder pitching him $10M before suing over the "io" name. The dispute reveals how Silicon Valley's tight networks create messy conflicts when investors see ideas they're already building.
Most people type random questions into ChatGPT and get disappointing results. The difference between good and bad prompts isn't luck—it's structure. Master the simple formula that turns generic responses into exactly what you need.
Tesla launched its first robotaxi service in Austin with human monitors still in every car. The limited rollout to handpicked influencers reveals the gap between Musk's autonomous promises and current reality, while Waymo operates thousands of truly driverless vehicles across multiple cities.
Chinese AI startup MiniMax just trained a frontier model for $534,700 - a fraction of what competitors spend. Their open-source M1 beats DeepSeek while using 75% less computing power. The breakthrough suggests advanced AI no longer requires massive budgets.
AI models typically learn by memorizing patterns, then researchers bolt on reasoning as an afterthought. A new method called Reinforcement Pre-Training flips this approach—teaching models to think during basic training instead.
OpenAI cut its o3 model prices 80% while launching o3-pro—a reasoning AI that takes over 3 minutes to respond but outperforms rivals on complex tasks. The move intensifies AI pricing wars and splits the market between fast chat models and slow thinking ones.
OpenAI doubled revenue to $10 billion in six months but lost $5 billion last year. The company bets everything on reaching $125 billion by 2029 while burning investor cash at record pace. Early signs suggest AI growth may be slowing.
