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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
Sam Altman
Ian Krietzberg • March 19, 2026
Altman’s Secret Agents
While the “agentic web” is still in its infancy, it’s already getting difficult to distinguish real users from A.I. bots. A handful of companies think they have the answer.
Persian Gulf Iran Strait of Hormuz
Ian Krietzberg • March 17, 2026
Could Iran Be A.I.’s Black Swan Event?
The Strait of Hormuz isn’t just a chokepoint for oil—it’s also a major artery for elements essential to semiconductor manufacturing. And there’s growing fear that the market gloom could leech into A.I. valuations, too.
Therapy
Ian Krietzberg • March 12, 2026
Analyze This
Limbic, a British company backed by Khosla Ventures, is working toward a future where people use A.I. to supplement their shrinks rather than rely on the tech altogether—one of the darker trends of the artificial intelligence era so far.
sam altman
Ian Krietzberg • March 10, 2026
Is ChatGPT a Dead End?
A growing number of the most decorated A.I. researchers have declared that world models, not L.L.M.s, are the key to unlocking tech’s next quantum leap. Investors are betting billions of dollars that they’re right.
Coders
Ian Krietzberg • March 5, 2026
JackSaaS
For more than a month, tech stocks have been getting obliterated over investor fears that new A.I. tools, such as Claude Code and Cowork, will diminish the vitality of the software-as-a-service business. But the panic, fueled by two fundamental misunderstandings, may be overblown.
Nvidia Jensen Huang
Ian Krietzberg • March 3, 2026
Nvidia vs. The Revenge of the Old Economy
Despite boffo earnings and investments, the Mag 7 are slightly down this year, while so-called “old economy” stocks have soared. Is this a rotation out of tech, signs of a peak, or merely a time to buy as a new sector is created?
Dario Amodei
Ian Krietzberg • February 26, 2026
Anthropic’s Crisis of Conscience
Dario Amodei’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar A.I. unicorn has always billed itself as the “safety first” lab among the major hyperscalers. But now that obligations and commercial pressures have accumulated, the company has reached an inflection point—and is having to take a hard look at its founding principles.
Sam Altman
Ian Krietzberg • February 24, 2026
The $100B Sam Altman Bet
OpenAI is close to finalizing what could become $100 billion in new fundraising, more than doubling what was already the single largest tech raise in history. It’s an extraordinary bet that A.I. will truly transform the world—and the venture ecosystem, too.
Faces
Ian Krietzberg • February 19, 2026
The A.I. “Personhood” Panic
A flurry of state-level bills are trying to ward off a future of A.I.-human marriages, A.I. C.E.O.s, and even A.I. landlords. It might sound silly, but the debate over theoretical “personhood” has myriad real-world implications.
Dario Amodei
Ian Krietzberg • February 17, 2026
The Dario Scenario
Anthropic was among the top A.I. players to sign fat contracts with the Pentagon. Now, simmering tensions over how the military uses its technology have exploded into the open, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatening to blacklist them. Can C.E.O. Dario Amodei find an off-ramp?
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