A.I.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
John Heilemann
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June 9, 2026
The Optimist’s Case for A.I.
An unusually uplifting conversation with Josh Tyrangiel, the longtime media executive and journalist, about more than just the dreams and schemes of A.I.’s poster boys: namely, where the technology is being deployed to do real work, how it can benefit medicine and government, and whether our political leaders can keep up.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.”
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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April 28, 2026
Love It or Lehane It
With the public continuing to sour on A.I., Sam Altman and his corporate image architect, Chris Lehane, are testing a softer, more human message—less doom and gloom, more uplift and empowerment. Is it too little, too late?
Ian Krietzberg
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April 23, 2026
A.I.’s X-Ray Vision
Years ago, the field of radiology was predicted to be among the first to be decimated by A.I. job extinction. And yet today, radiologists are more in demand than ever, and the field’s job-extinction moment is seen as a false alarm.
Ian Krietzberg
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April 21, 2026
The Data Center Debate Cannot Hold
Maine’s Democratic governor is weighing the nation’s first statewide ban on new data centers amid soaring electricity prices. But not everyone in the party thinks the A.I. backlash is good politics—and it might be even worse policy.