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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
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?
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?
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