A.I.
Ian Krietzberg
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April 14, 2026
Silicon Valley’s Anthropic Anxiety
At the HumanX conference in San Francisco, A.I. executives expressed both euphoria and a growing fear that the industry’s surging economics are largely flowing upward, to a small handful of mega-firms—and that enterprise use cases aren’t yet compelling enough for everyone to share the wealth.
Ian Krietzberg
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April 7, 2026
Iran’s A.I. Hostage Crisis
American tech companies have constructed dozens of data centers in the Middle East, all within striking distance of Iran. Recent attacks on A.W.S. facilities in Bahrain and the U.A.E. show how they’ve become geopolitical casualties of the U.S.–Israeli war.
Ian Krietzberg
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March 31, 2026
Is Anthropic Too Big to Fail?
In the past three months, Anthropic has eclipsed OpenAI in the crucial contest of enterprise adoption. But the race to win hearts and corporate workflows is only just beginning.
Ian Krietzberg
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March 26, 2026
A.I. Gets Its Close-Up
‘The A.I. Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ offers an unflinching view of the nascent industry, including its goriest and most uncertain elements. A candid chat with the producers, however, reveals an optimism often missing from the narrative.
Ian Krietzberg
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March 24, 2026
The A.I. “Hope & Change” Election
Bernie is talking to Claude, Trump wants Grok in missiles, and Kathy Hochul just wants the best of both worlds. If Silicon Valley isn’t already regretting hyping a job-obliterating third industrial revolution, the next two elections will show why the politics of A.I. are turning explosive.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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?
Ian Krietzberg
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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.
Ian Krietzberg
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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.