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Big TechnologyVoicesWhat I Got Wrong About Meta’s Muse, And The Deeper Threat To Frontier AI When Meta introduced its Muse personal agent earlier this month, I thought it would fail for two reasons: First, privacy concerns would limit people’s willingness to connect it with services like…

September 25

Big TechnologyVoicesYouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We’re Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is betting that AI will help creators build bigger audiences without displacing the human connection that brings viewers to the platform.

September 23

Big TechnologyVoicesIt’s Time to Bring Some Sanity to the AI Risk Conversation The AI risk debate is going completely off the rails. As AI gets more powerful and begins to do some legitimately scary things, like hacking Hugging Face and hijacking message boards to coordinate…

September 11

Big TechnologyVoicesWhen Artificial Intelligence Is Too Valuable To Sell It’s time to delete the assumption that the frontier AI labs will always license their best models and not hoard the intelligence for themselves.

July 31

Big TechnologyVoicesEverything You Need to Know About Kimi K3, the Latest Model From China to Shake Up AI Here's how the web reacted to Kimi K3's performance, politics, and how it changes the AI race.

July 20

Big TechnologyVoicesAI Model Prices Are Falling At The Worst Moment For The U.S. Frontier Labs Anthropic and OpenAI have been raising and spending vast amounts of cash to build the world’s most powerful AI models, assuming that owning the frontier will generate a massive return.

July 17

Big TechnologyVoicesApple’s lawsuit against OpenAI makes serious claims. Will they matter? Apple doesn’t sue often. When it has, it’s usually gone after companies like Qualcomm and Samsung that are already shipping competing products.

July 13

Big TechnologyVoicesOpenAI's Plans For Its New ChatGPT Superapp OpenAI finally released the first version of its long-promised Superapp this week, combining ChatGPT, coding, and internet browsing into a single application, while adding a new ChatGPT Work mode…

July 10

Big TechnologyVoicesMeta’s Path To AI Relevance, According To Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the big monolithic model era is over, and the battle over AI product has just begun.

July 9

Big TechnologyVoicesAutomation Makes The World Cup Worse. But We Can’t Help Ourselves, Can We? An epic World Cup has been marred by an overreliance on technology and automation. In this year’s competition, FIFA has used cameras, sensors, AI systems, and other automated tools to make the game…

July 6

Big TechnologyVoicesThe United States’ OpenAI Equity Stake, Meta The Neocloud, Karp’s Attack Ahead of the holiday weekend, here’s what’s happening and what to look out for.

July 2

Big TechnologyVoicesHeavy AI Adoption Linked To More Hiring, Not Layoffs, New Data Shows There’s a flawed yet oft-repeated narrative that AI adoption in the workplace will inevitably lead to layoffs and job loss.

June 30

Big TechnologyVoicesAI Budget Increases, Fable’s Potential, AI’s Cyber Frontier: Takeaways From Big Technology’s AI Summit Don’t expect AI’s spending frenzy to slow down anytime soon. That was perhaps the biggest lesson at the Big Technology AI Summit, held last week in San Francisco.

June 26

Big TechnologyVoicesGreg Brockman On OpenAI’s Plan To Win: Compute Rules All If AI model capabilities c ontinue to improve fast — and relatively in sync across frontier labs — the lab with the most compute will win in the end, OpenAI president Greg Brockman suggested at the…

June 19

Big TechnologyVoicesElon Musk Sold Investors The Future. Now SpaceX Has To Build It. On its first full day of trading, SpaceX is building on its massive IPO’s momentum. The company is up more than 14% on Monday, hitting a market cap above $2.4 trillion, which places it firmly within…

June 15

Big TechnologyVoicesSpaceX’s Valuation Is Crazy. Maybe That's A Feature? When you dig into the numbers, SpaceX, in truth, is a connectivity company with an unprofitable rocket arm and an AI question mark.

June 12

Big TechnologyVoicesApple's WWDC Reality: Scaled Down AI Ambitions As The iPhone Remains Dominant When Tim Cook takes the stage at Apple’s developer conference in Cupertino today, he’ll be leading Apple through yet another moment of transition.

June 8

Big TechnologyVoicesNobel Prize Winner Geoffrey Hinton on AI: “They’re Beings Like Us” AI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton believes that today’s AI models have become self-aware. “I believe they’re already conscious,” Hinton told me on Big Technology Podcast this week.

June 5

Big TechnologyVoicesThe Token Reckoning is Here and It’s Not What You Think In June 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that “Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp,” predicting that as “datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should…

June 1

Big TechnologyVoicesThe Chatbots and Agents Are Going To Merge There are two core generative AI uses today: Chatbots and agents. The bots make sense of information. The agents take control of your computer and get things done for you.

May 29