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Ian Krietzberg

A visionary reporter at the forefront of his field, Ian Krietzberg covers the business of A.I. with the expert sourcing and candid insights of a practitioner—exploring the industries that large language models are transforming, the arms race to unleash superintelligence, the battle to separate fact from science fiction, and how it’s all playing out on Wall Street and in Washington.

THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
A.I. Protest
Ian Krietzberg • July 14, 2026
Will America’s Next President Run Against A.I.?
The polling says artificial intelligence isn’t a top-tier issue for voters… yet. But beneath the affordability crisis, Washington’s top political strategists are picking up early signals of an anti-tech populist revolt.
Mark Zuckerberg
Ian Krietzberg • July 9, 2026
Zuck’s A.I. Landlord Era
Meta’s new plan to start selling compute raises a bunch of uncomfortable questions, and not just for the neoclouds it might put out of business: After years of Meta needing more compute than it could produce, what does its sudden surplus say about demand for A.I. overall?
Bernie Sanders, Abdul El-Sayed
Ian Krietzberg • July 7, 2026
Bernie’s A.I. Warrior Has a No-Go List
Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Bernie-endorsed Senate candidate, has released an aggressive A.I.-regulation plan that includes Big Tech divestiture (you heard that right) and a series of “no-goes.” Here, he talks about A.I. as an affordability issue, the myth of Chinese domination, and the inaction of the U.S. Senate.
Sam Altman, Donald Trump
Ian Krietzberg • June 30, 2026
A.I. vs. Trump’s Fire & Fury
In the wake of a new federal review process for frontier model deployments, some in the industry are worried that Trump & Co. might be handing the A.I. race to the Chinese. Can an administration known for chaos provide a sufficient vetting framework and process—stat?
Nadia Carlsten
Ian Krietzberg • June 25, 2026
Allbirds’ A.I. Pivot Is Not a Joke
C.E.O. Nadia Carlsten defends the company’s surreal pivot from shoewear to A.I.—its plans to take on CoreWeave and Dell, how it raised all that money, and why bespoke is the future for neoclouds. “The origin story doesn’t really matter,” she insists. “The results will speak for themselves.”
Alex Bores
Ian Krietzberg • June 23, 2026
The Bores Identity
Whatever happens on primary night, the A.I. dark money battle over Alex Bores is merely the opening of a broader industry proxy war—with hundreds of millions of dollars ready to deploy into 2028.
Dear Upstairs Neighbors film
Ian Krietzberg • June 18, 2026
The Ex-Pixar Producer Who’s All In on A.I.
A captivating conversation with Márcia Mayer, a former Pixar producer who now works at Google DeepMind, about the lab’s new A.I.-assisted short film that’s become the talk of Tribeca.
Bernie Sanders
Ian Krietzberg • June 16, 2026
The A.I. Socialist Manifesto
The idea of the U.S. government taking a stake in the major A.I. labs—to mitigate economic disruption, or just to spread the wealth—is gaining traction on both sides of the aisle. But is it the best solution, or even feasible?
Jeff Carroll
Ian Krietzberg • June 11, 2026
The Brain Trust
Of all the altruistic promises of A.I., none has been as tantalizing to frontier labs as curing disease. The Allen Institute has now launched an ambitious tech-fueled initiative, with $400 million and dozens of high-powered partnerships, to attack the most tantalizing target of all: brain disease.
Sam Altman
Ian Krietzberg • June 4, 2026
The Great A.I. PAC Crackup
With public opinion—and a slew of presidential hopefuls—beating back A.I.’s “no rules” agenda, the lobbyist armies of Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI are suddenly supporting safeguards they rejected just a year ago.
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