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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
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.
Marc Zao-Sanders
Ian Krietzberg • June 2, 2026
Harvard’s A.I. Gut Check
An incisive conversion with Marc Zao-Sanders, author of the ‘Harvard Business Review‘’s latest report on how consumers are actually using A.I. Get used to seeing the term “cognitive offloading.”
Mallory McMorrow
Ian Krietzberg • May 28, 2026
The First A.I. Candidate
Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow is jumping in front of the unstoppable A.I. freight train, betting that anxious voters are hungry for a pragmatic, informed approach that finds a reasonable sweet spot between Bernie Sanders and David Sacks. Herewith, the details of her plan.
Sundar Pichai
Ian Krietzberg • May 26, 2026
Has Google Already Won the A.I. Race?
The full-scale rollout of Google’s newish A.I.-assisted search feature raises more questions than answers—but it also underscores the tech giant’s extraordinary advantages at a time when other hyperscalers haven’t addressed consumer skepticism about chatbots.
Mira Murati
Ian Krietzberg • May 21, 2026
The $2B Mira Murati Mystery
With stratospheric funding and a slew of founding talent from OpenAI, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab seemingly had everything an A.I. startup needed for escape velocity. But as it approaches its 15-month mark, the company has little to show for all that promise and capital.
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