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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
data center
Ian Krietzberg • February 10, 2026
So You Want to Build a Data Center…
The A.I. gold rush is spreading the wealth far beyond the pick-and-shovel providers like Nvidia and other chipmakers. But the industries supporting the infrastructure build-out have a different challenge: too much demand.
Waymo
Ian Krietzberg • February 5, 2026
Brake Point
A recent Waymo accident near an elementary school has reignited the charged conversation over driverless car safety, whether Silicon Valley is moving too fast, and the inevitable wave of lawsuits.
us border patrol ice dhs agents
Ian Krietzberg • February 3, 2026
America’s A.I. Dragnet
Armed with a $30 billion budget, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are building a massive, A.I.-assisted surveillance apparatus that combines facial recognition, biometrics, and every available piece of personal data to keep tabs on immigrants and citizens, alike.
Poetic AI founders
Ian Krietzberg • January 29, 2026
Poetiq Justice
Poetiq, a less-than-one-year-old A.I. startup just crushed the ARC A.G.I. benchmark, beating Anthropic and Google with only six people and $40,000. An exclusive look inside the search for an A.I. holy grail.
ai robot assistant
Ian Krietzberg • January 27, 2026
The A.I. Butler Did It!
Silicon Valley is backing thousands of rival consumer A.I. apps, all promising to automate away the troubles and tedium of modern life. Can any of them actually turn a profit?
Sam Altman
Ian Krietzberg • January 22, 2026
Sam Altman’s Mad Men Era
It was inevitable that OpenAI, a massive consumer-facing company racking up historic losses, would enter the advertising business. Will this become the new normal for the industry? Or will ChatGPT users revolt?
Dario Amodei
Ian Krietzberg • January 20, 2026
Claude Code & Theory
A new wave of A.I. coding tools are impressive and empowering enough to make one imagine a future where we’re all coding our own apps and software engineers are a thing of the past. But these days, it still takes a pro (or armies of them) to get it right.
Human Brain
Ian Krietzberg • January 15, 2026
A.I. Brainiacs
As the industry relentlessly scales up, a handful of smaller companies are pursuing new model architectures that could enable greater efficiency without sacrificing performance. But first, do we need to figure out how the brain actually works?
Tim Cook
Ian Krietzberg • January 13, 2026
10 Bold Predictions for A.I.’s Year Ahead
Mass adoption, steep contraction, and the fruits of Apple’s waiting game are all part of the coming year in artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk
Ian Krietzberg • January 8, 2026
Grok, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
For more than two weeks, xAI’s Grok chatbot has been gamely stripping people to their undergarments in response to user prompts on X. How much legal exposure does the company face—and when will this dystopian episode come to an end?
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