Ian Krietzberg • September 11, 2025

School of Grok

A bracing roundtable with professors and academics about how A.I. has invaded their classrooms, whether it’s incompatible with the aims of higher education, and their recently published open letter calling on universities to reject the use of generative A.I. in schools.

Ian Krietzberg • September 9, 2025

Sam Altman’s Legal Turing Test

The latest lawsuit over a chatbot-fueled tragedy raises novel questions for OpenAI and the artificial intelligence industry: Would a “reasonable person” rely upon ChatGPT for important life decisions? And does a lack of reasonable safeguards amount to negligence?

Leigh Ann Caldwell • September 7, 2025

Trump’s A.I. Identity Crisis

Washington remains divided between Trump-adjacent Silicon Valley accelerationists who want to advance A.I. at all costs, and skeptical lawmakers from both parties, who warn of unforeseen risks, ranging from copyright theft to national security threats.

Ian Krietzberg • September 4, 2025

Id, Ego & A.I.

Slingshot, which counts a16z as an investor, recently launched “Ash,” a new therapy chatbot that’s being billed as a cheap pocket shrink. Is this an improvement on the current anthropomorphizing of ChatGPT, a preview of the inevitable, or just a really bad idea?

Ian Krietzberg • September 2, 2025

The A.I. Jobpocalypse, Revisited

Another new academic paper adds some nuance to the dystopian narrative that A.I. is coming for all of our jobs. As usual, the truth is more complex and, frankly, uncertain.

Ian Krietzberg • August 28, 2025

Can A.I. Make Hollywood Great Again?

Amid all the hyperventilating and legitimate fears over generative A.I., a new wave of entrepreneurs is creating more specialized, A.I.-fueled VFX tools to empower directors, lower effects budgets, and maybe even help the industry embrace its future.

Ian Krietzberg • August 26, 2025

The Day After Tomorrow

Weather prediction agencies across the world are embracing A.I. models to assist with forecasting, but there are plenty of reasons to believe old-school, physics-based models aren’t going anywhere. Instead, the real revolution will involve the encroachment of the private sector on the industry.

Ian Krietzberg • August 21, 2025

The Big Wang Theory

In the span of a few months, Meta has split its A.I. unit in two, launched a superintelligence lab, gone on a multibillion-dollar hiring spree, and restructured the same unit again. Now, it has put 28-year-old Alexandr Wang in charge of the whole enchilada. Meta says there’s nothing to see here, but the scramble says a lot about where the industry is now—and where it’s headed.

Ian Krietzberg • August 19, 2025

Amazon’s A.G.I. Prime

While others have abandoned the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Amazon’s AGI Labs is still chasing the dream. Cognitive scientist Danielle Perszyk explains how they’re trying to build advanced, reliable agents—and ruminates on the existential implications if they succeed.

Ian Krietzberg • August 14, 2025

Time to Pretend

A year after Character.AI was sued over the suicide of a teen who allegedly became obsessed with its chatbot, the company’s new C.E.O., Karandeep Anand, opens up about the company’s evolving business model, its $2.7 billion Google deal, and pivoting from companionship to entertainment.

Ian Krietzberg • August 12, 2025

Altman in the Iron Mask

The poor reception of GPT-5 is likely due, in part, to growing doubts that Altman’s long-espoused goal of achieving A.G.I. is as close as he claims. If it isn’t, the industry has much larger problems on its hands.

Ian Krietzberg • August 7, 2025

Slaughterhouse GPT-5

Silicon Valley is adjusting its expectations yet again, after OpenAI’s latest model turned out to be more of an upgrade than a great leap forward. “It’s not a disappointment in the sense that it won’t actually be better,” said one A.I. researcher. “But a disappointment relative to what people were expecting.”

Ian Krietzberg • August 5, 2025

A.I. Bubble Bust Theories

As the major A.I. hyperscalers prepare to spend some $325 billion in capex this year—enough to noticeably raise U.S. G.D.P.—economists are beginning to worry we’re in a bubble… even as they acknowledge there may not be any real alternative.

Ian Krietzberg • July 31, 2025

The Netflix of A.I.?

A head-spinning conversation with Edward Saatchi, the C.E.O. of Fable Studio, about his new Amazon-backed, A.I.-fueled content-generating app, which promises to create near-instantaneous TV episodes and, naturally, has all of Hollywood on edge.

Ian Krietzberg • July 29, 2025

The A.I. Cold War

The United States and even Europe are rapidly cutting red tape and curtailing their own regulatory guardrails to advance the interests of the private sector… all in the name of taking on China. What could possibly go wrong?