Chan Karunamuni designs new iPhone interfaces
His work on the Dynamic Island leverages Apple’s unique integration of software and hardware.
Marc Andreessen is effective at accelerating ideas
The venture capitalist has been on the cutting-edge of tech since co-founding Netscape in 1994.
Naval Ravikant is famous for his philosophies about wealth
“All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”
Ancient Roman myths and AI girlfriends
Apps like Replika and Character.AI are continuing a 2,000-year-old trend of artificial companionship.
Bryan Johnson wants to live forever
The “most measured man in human history” is spending his fortune in an effort in pursuit of a clear mission: don’t die.
roon is every AI enthusiast’s favorite anon
The pseudonymous “prolific shitposter” was the driving force behind the wordcels vs. shape rotators meme.
Jules Terpak brings a gen-z mindset to tech commentary
One of the few pundits who actually seems to understand how human beings use the internet.
Appraising Innovation
Learning from the world’s leading innovators.
Ben Thompson is equal parts analyst & entrepreneur
Plus, he developed Aggregation Theory: a spiritual successor to Clay Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Innovation.
John Gruber set the standards for independent publishing
He’s also the creator of Markdown, a ubiquitous coding language that simplifies formatting text for the internet.
What happened to CNET?
It’s still the same website... but it’s not the same website.
After AI Drake songs, nothing was the same
Record labels are cracking down on AI generated music.
AI memes are going mainstream
AI generated “by Balenciaga” videos are taking the internet by storm — so I made one myself. Let’s see Paul Allen’s meme.
Hitting the brakes on next-generation AI
What do Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang have in common?
GPT-4 is here. How does it compare to GPT-3.5?
How does OpenAI’s latest large language model compare to the previous version?
Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
Comparing three very different interpretations of artificial intelligence.
No one noticed for a week: Bing also made mistakes in their demo
We were so captivated by the new Bing chatbot that no one (until Dmitri Brereton) bothered to read the actual results.
Microsoft: 1 — Google: 0
The AI games have begun. Round one: search. Microsoft is first to score.
ChatGPT Plus is here
ChatGPT’s new $20 pro plan dropped this week — with a new Turbo mode.
It’s 2023 and I’m on the waitlist for Bing
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared a new race to win search has started.
Google announces Bard, their ChatGPT rival — and AI powered search results
Google says it’ll drop in “coming weeks”
Google is in trouble
Bing is coming in hot with AI tech. Yeah, that Bing. Also: the Instagram cofounders dropped a new AI app.
The Instagram co-founders made a reading app powered by AI
A review of my first few days with Artifact, the new AI driven news feed app from Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Spoiler: I like it.
ChatGPT doesn’t know about its updates
The Jan 30 version of ChatGPT told me it doesn’t know anything about its most recent update.
The generative AI hype cycle
Things are moving incredibly fast for AI — and we’re just getting started.