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Tim Cook isn’t the “main character” at Apple anymore. During the company’s keynote presentation on September 9, the long-serving CEO publicly passed the torch to his successor, former hardware engineering lead John Ternus, in time…
In a year rife with backlash to big tech, data centers, and AI, one company still manages to stand out: Flock Safety. Over the past decade, Flock has been building out a massive network of surveillance cameras across the nation. The images those cameras record are uploaded to a central…
One of the challenges of the current debates around AI is whose narratives we are forced to argue from.
1). The well-funded "AI safety" contingent…
Jacob Coxon kickstarted a feverish news cycle after he quit his job at Anthropic with an ominous public statement: Almost everyone at the big AI companies, from top executives to rank and file researchers, believes that their technology could kill every human on the planet, and yet are doing little…
I found myself fielding a lot of questions from folks who don’t usually talk much about AI this week. They were mostly along the lines of “do you think AI is going to kill us all?” or “how worried should I be about this human extinction stuff?”
Motivating this wave…
We’re less than two months out from the release of my new book Hyperscale, and the good news keeps coming! In August, the book made the longlist for the Financial Times Business Book of…
AI executives like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have been forecasting an incipient AI jobs apocalypse for three years now. So where is it? Well it’s here, kind of. But instead of replacing tens of millions of workers, it’s mostly making them miserable.
Yes, across the US,…
Take a look at this chart from a new report published by Glassdoor, the popular website where workers publish ratings of/complaints about/screeds of righteous fury aimed at their workplaces. Chris Martin, Glassdoor’s resident economist, analyzed how and how often AI was mentioned in workers’ write-ups about their jobs and…
New fronts are opening up in the opposition to big tech. The anti-data center movement is rolling, AI is unpopular as ever, and now, a widespread backlash to Meta’s new AI glasses—termed Pervert Glasses by the masses—is unfolding at breakneck pace. Silicon Valley, of course, is in denial about all…
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