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Sundar Pichai on Google’s AI, Microsoft’s AI, OpenAI, and … Did We Mention AI?

Earlier this month, Sundar Pichai was struggling to write a letter to Alphabet’s 180,000 employees. The 51-year-old CEO wanted to laud Google on its 25th birthday, which could have been easy enough....

What OpenAI Really Wants

The air crackles with an almost Beatlemaniac energy as the star and his entourage tumble into a waiting Mercedes van. They’ve just ducked out of one event and are headed to another,...

Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks

Fifty-one dollars and 69 cents. That was the charge, including tip, for the 2.95-mile trip I took last May from my downtown New York City apartment to the West Side facility where...

Frances Haugen Says We Need a ‘Free Mark’ Movement

Frances Haugen will forever be known as Facebook’s whistleblower. In her final weeks at the company, she worked daily with a Wall Street Journal reporter to drain Facebook’s servers of damning documents that showed...

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI

I never thought I'd write these words, but here goes. Satya Nadella—and Microsoft, the company he runs—are riding high on the buzz from its search engine. That's quite a contrast from the...

Bob Metcalfe, The Man Who Discovered Network Effects, Isn't Sorry

ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came after I sought the chatbot’s guidance on what questions to ask the...

How to Start an AI Panic

Last week the Center for Humane Technology summoned over 100 leaders in finance, philanthropy, industry, government, and media to the Kissinger Room at the Paley Center for Media in New York City...

A Native Son of Palo Alto Thinks His Hometown Will Kill Us All

I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a book-tour interview. He goes for a guava croissant along with his $3.75...

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