The Diary

Are You Afraid of Your Light Bulbs?

Grok Bot, Dots and Muse are moving intelligence beyond the app and into everyday life.

Personal Agents, For Free, On All Devices

It’s Just Software, Right?

... by Humans

Published standards and accountable deployment beat permission-based AI regulation.

Capability is the point of AI. The case for danger still needs proof.

All-In Gang Struggle to Lead the Discussion

Intelligence needs to be metered, funded, built, distributed, and made cheap enough to deliver a Human Dividend. Who champions that?

Claude Wants Everybody to Know it Was There

Now Everybody Can Access it (All of It)

It is not Cheating - You Should Use it at Will

Who Needs a Kill Switch?

The AI Economy Has Multiple Clocks

Abundance, Wealth Creation, and Freedom

Government takes over AI product release schedule and scope

The New Roles Emerging from Agentic AI Need New Titles

Civilization Needs Elon Musk

Politics Needs to be About Defining the Future.

Agents Are In Your Future

It has to Reimagine AI Every Few Weeks

A discussion with Jonathan Rauch, Keith Teare and presided over by Andrew Keen

AI and Us, an evolving landscape

The End of typed and touched input?

The Week AI Leaders Matured

AI is not about The CEOs

The Campaign to Discredit AI

The Answer Matters

Winning Wars Involves Losing Battles

And Punish Uncertainty

900 million users. 10,000 empty pages. The gap between them won’t be closed by better arguments.

Everyone behaved badly in the fight over who controls AI. The real casualty is the question itself. Who leads AI policy?

Public Power Should Not Be Privatized

Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO)

10x Last Week's Capability

In Every Adolescent there is a Child and an Emerging Adult.

AI - Infant, Adolescent or Mature?

After Davos

Why This Week Proves AI Is Our Greatest Invention, Not Our Replacement

What is Happening?

Why No One Is “Winning” the AI Race Yet

Reviewing Nirit Weiss-Blatt (who makes an impromptu appearance in the video)

Is there an AI Race?

Chapter Two of OpenAI starts now

ChatGPT has an Answer

While the Next Enlightenment is Being Built

When AI Companies Become Everything Companies

OpenAi Launches Pulse

Jimmy Kimmel, ABC and the Future of Media

Don't be a Party Pooper

Who Pays Whom?

And AI can be an advertising free zone

If it isn't you, it's game over

The Pain of Change

This Week AI Broke Our Software—and Hardware—Assumptions

And ... Andrew is Back

For Those Who Like to Keep Up with the News

No "Differentiated" Developer Left Behind

Advertising as a Model will struggle for lack of traffic

AI is Fast, Humans are Slow

And 20 Years of Change

Everything is Possible But Nothing is Inevitable

Is it a Good Thing?

The Great Leap Forward

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And who's changing?

With an AI Podcast

Clouds, Silver Linings?

And does it make any sense?

The World Isn't Ending. But the 'West' is.

OpenAi 30% of the Way to a Trillion

Publishers are Noticing

Europe Goes Mad and AI Marches On.

Audience Says No.

And I did not write any Code. The Rise of Autonomy.

Say it Again

And AI is Accelerating

TWTW 2025 #6

Two Worlds collide

Credit: Marc Andreessen

Just technologists with a passion for change and of course self-interest

Do "Oligarchs" have principles?

That Was The Week 2025 #1

The 'Person' of the Year is Claude

For Haters He is the New Trump

The New AI and Crypto Czar

Week Beginning 12-01-2024

Culture Wars: Silicon Valley and Washington DC

For That Was The Week Subscribers

Are we about to get less People, more AI?

Free Invite and SignalRank Presentation

A Problem or an Opportunity?

AI, Trump, and the Future

The Age of AI is just beginning

It is definitely happening

Consumer, Cloud, Enterprise?

Don't be "Precautionary"

How to Invest?

The Brussels Edition

Can Government help Innovation?

The Future Has to be Built

Robert Reich: Foreign Governments Should Arrest Musk

Is Telegram a Criminal Plot?

And Teachers Should Too

Regulation and Innovation

That Was The Week 2024, #26

How to Stay Updated

Private Markets Indexing is Coming

Answer: Yes and No

The AI Debate is on Fire

OpenAI, Apple, Microsoft, and, Google

A Silicon Valley Story

We need big and deep thinkers with bold ideas

A Letter From a Founder to a Founder

The Next Stage in AI

An Ad and its detractors

Creators Struggle to Make a Living

Everything is Changing

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Lawmakers Ignoring the law.

Governments, Big Tech and Startups: The Inevitable Rise of the New

Big Tech and Fear of Controversy

That Was The Week 2024 #8

AI is coming to Life.

New, new media

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Contemplating 2024

Maria Matloub Interview

That Was The Week 2023 #48

Big Media Needs Google Web Search

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One GPT at a Time

That Was The Week 2023, #42

Are VC's Abandoning Hope?

Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman and Geoffrey Hinton

Humanity Needs to Say No!

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China, Chips and Airplanes

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Defending Chamath Palihapitiya and Debunking Revisionist History

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Apple and the Mask

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Launch of Notes is a significant move

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TikTok CEO Verbally Abused by Congress

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In Defense of Risk-Takers

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Khan't touch that

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Can the US Compete in Solar and Electric Vehicles?

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What Are They Thinking?

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Data and Science are crucial to humanity’s future

And Misinformation is Good For Us

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Elon Musk Raises $7 billion for Twitter purchase

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Andreessen, Khosla and Altman Team Up

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