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.
Anthropic wires Claude into lab systems for documentation speed while rivals burn billions chasing AI-discovered drugs that don't exist yet. The strategy: sell efficiency today, skip moonshot risk—but if discovery suddenly works, infrastructure looks conservative.
Salesforce pitched AI to help ICE triple its enforcement workforce while CEO Marc Benioff embraced Trump—and a 25-year friendship fractured. Internal docs show optimization logic applied to deportation hiring. The bind: federal revenue meets reputational cost.
Anthropic wired Claude into Microsoft 365, chasing institutional memory while Microsoft hedges with model choice inside Copilot. The fight isn't about chat features—it's about who mediates your company's knowledge day after day.
Anthropic's Haiku 4.5 delivers May's frontier coding performance at one-third the cost, collapsing the capability-to-commodity timeline to five months. Multi-agent systems just crossed the economic threshold for production deployment.
Nvidia's $4K desktop AI box arrived five months late and $1K more expensive. It runs models too large for consumer GPUs but 4x slower than pro cards. The bet: developers need memory capacity more than speed for prototyping 70B+ parameter models locally.
Broadcom's stock surged 10% on OpenAI chip news—then its president said OpenAI isn't the $10B mystery buyer. The deal's real, the payment terms stay vague, and OpenAI now owes hundreds of billions across multiple vendors while burning $10B yearly.
Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money. When free credit ended in 2022 and regulators pushed back, tech billionaires chose Trump over constraints.
The Netherlands seized control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia through coordinated executive rebellion and emergency law—without taking ownership. Three European managers triggered the intervention. Wingtech keeps the profits, loses the power. A new template.
Google's 1.3 quadrillion token milestone sounds massive—until you see growth rates halving and realize tokens measure server intensity, not customer demand. The slowdown reveals something uncomfortable about AI economics.
Security teams assumed attackers needed to taint a percentage of training data. New research shows a fixed number of documents can backdoor models regardless of scale—upending detection strategies built around dilution assumptions.
Washington promotes AI in classrooms. New data shows 19% of high schoolers report romantic AI relationships, 42% use it for mental health support. The more schools deploy AI, the more students feel disconnected from teachers—and from reality.
Google released a browser automation agent days after OpenAI, choosing narrower scope over desktop control. The bet: faster, more reliable web tasks matter more than operating system reach. Internal use proves it works. External adoption will test the claim.
