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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
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.
Xi Jinping trump
Ian Krietzberg • May 19, 2026
The Trump-Xi A.I. Rain Dance
One week after the president dragged Silicon Valley’s top C.E.O.s halfway across the world to extract various business deals with Xi Jinping, the crew returned to Washington with more questions than answers. Among them: Does the White House have a unified policy on A.I.? And is China a competitor, or a customer?
Elon Musk
Ian Krietzberg • May 14, 2026
Hey Grok, Is Elon Giving Up on A.I.?
A surprising deal with Anthropic is raising questions about whether Musk’s xAI is abandoning the frontier model arms race to focus on neocloud services instead—including launching G.P.U.s into space.
Donald Trump
Ian Krietzberg • May 12, 2026
Trump’s Mythos Panic Attack
After a yearlong anything-goes policy toward A.I., the White House is suddenly talking about “vetting” new models and wrapping the industry in red tape. Is the pivot a reaction to midterm polling, J.D. Vance’s 2028 push, or Trump officials seeing something that scared them straight?
David Silver
Ian Krietzberg • May 7, 2026
The Last A.I. Chopper Out of Saigon?
With the specter of the A.I. singularity around the corner, Ineffable Intelligence just raised a billion-dollar seed round without a single product. The investment arms race is putting massive pressure on venture capital—and changing how the entire industry thinks about risk.
Elon Musk
Ian Krietzberg • May 5, 2026
What If Elon Wins the OpenAI Trial?
As the messy ’Musk v. Altman’ trial enters week two, the A.I. industry has yet to grapple with the improbable but earth-shattering consequences if the jury actually sides with Elon. With an I.P.O. off the table, would OpenAI’s financial house of cards fall apart?
Keanu Reeves
Ian Krietzberg • April 30, 2026
Hollywood’s A.I.-Infringement Terminator
With Hollywood and Silicon Valley on a legal collision course over I.P. infringement and celebrity deepfakes, one company thinks it’s struck on a licensing solution that everyone—okay, almost everyone—can live with.
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