A.I.
Ian Krietzberg
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July 22, 2025
Robotaxi Cab Confessions
A new multi-hundred-million-dollar partnership between Uber, Lucid, and Nuro aims to deploy some 20,000 self-driving robotaxis across the U.S. over the next six years. But with a slate of complex technological hurdles and attendant safety challenges, can self-driving vehicles actually replace human drives at scale in the near term?
Ian Krietzberg
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July 17, 2025
Code to Nowhere
A new study confirmed what many artificial intelligence skeptics have long championed, and what its own researchers didn’t expect: A.I. coding tools don’t always speed up users’ workflow. In fact, the technology can slow them down. As one MIT researcher put it: “The need for people to gain deep expertise in the topics they work on is not going away.”
Ian Krietzberg
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July 15, 2025
The A.I. Will See You Now…
Nearly half of clinicians are now using A.I. for their work. Patients are turning to ChatGPT to self-diagnose mysterious ailments. And everyone from the chief innovation officer of Boston Children’s Hospital to R.F.K. Jr. is excited about the revolution unfolding in plain sight. What could go wrong?
Ian Krietzberg
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July 10, 2025
Born to Runway
A candid conversation with Anastasis Germanidis, the C.T.O. and co-founder of Runway, the major A.I. image- and video-generation company, about the trouble with building “world models,” the next steps in advancing the technology, the highly contentious issue of automated media, and much more.
Ian Krietzberg
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July 8, 2025
The A.I. Moratorium War Is Just Beginning…
Yes, the state regulatory ban was suddenly stripped out of Trump’s signature bill, but the A.I. industry and its army of lobbyists won’t let the hallmark technology of our time be regulated without their perspective. Which is why everyone is paying attention to a bill currently sitting on Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk.
Ian Krietzberg
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July 6, 2025
A.I.’s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
The rise of A.I., already a trillion-dollar industry, is still badly misunderstood by the media and warped by its own reality distortion field. At Puck, my goal is to reground the reporting surrounding A.I. with an insider’s view of the business and unbiased understanding of the technology, itself.
Matthew Belloni, Ian Krietzberg & Eriq Gardner
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July 3, 2025
A.I.’s Independence Day Terror
A frank conversation about the real and immediate impacts of the incipient and ubiquitous technology on entertainment—Midjourney implications, job wipeouts, licensing realities, and what to expect in the next decade versus what’s science fiction.
Julia Alexander
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July 2, 2025
Google Zero Dark Thirty
Traffic is collapsing for publishers as the web reorients around A.I. The market is responding, too, with U.S. advertisers expected to spend over $25 billion, or about 14 percent of their search budgets, on A.I.-powered search by 2029. The good news is that people are making and consuming more media than ever—even if the business itself becomes unrecognizable.
John Heilemann
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June 12, 2025
Play It Again, Sam
A wide-ranging conversation with Karen Hao, author of a revelatory new book about Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the age of artificial intelligence—and why each inspires awe and dread in equal measure.
Eriq Gardner
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June 10, 2025
Elon’s Battle of the Broadbands
Buried deep within the 1,116-page reconciliation bill is a provision to auction off spectrum needed for 6G wireless, setting off a wave of anxiety among broadcasters as they prepare to compete in an auction with Elon Musk. Plus, the latest F.C.C. complication in the endless Paramount saga.
Eriq Gardner
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April 8, 2025
Sam Altman vs. The Creative Community
OpenAI just won the ability to consolidate dozens of lawsuits into a single case, but the judge overseeing it isn’t exactly sympathetic to its plight. Meanwhile, Meta and Anthropic are fighting their own court battles over training A.I.s with unlicensed data. Insiders wonder if Congress will step in to broker a compromise—or if creators are destined for a less satisfying conclusion.
Baratunde Thurston
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December 17, 2024
Wall Street’s A.I. Gamble
An incisive conversation with Puck’s resident former M&A banker about how A.I. is changing the business of money.
Baratunde Thurston
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December 9, 2024
Hollywood’s A.I. Paradox
A candid conversation with Puck’s resident legal expert about the myriad ways that A.I. is poised to change Hollywood, from its potential to transform the talent landscape to how the town’s agencies are bracing for impact.
Baratunde Thurston
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December 2, 2024
Capitol Hill’s New A.I. Alliance
The trillion-dollar politics of A.I. has led to some strange bedfellows in Washington, where Republicans and Democrats have paused hostilities to work together on regulation, investment, spy programs, and more.
Baratunde Thurston
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November 25, 2024
BradyGPT
A head-spinning conversation with Puck’s John Ourand about how A.I. is personalizing live sports, supercharging prop betting, and helping broadcasters go global. Could A.I. commentators be next?
Eriq Gardner
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September 25, 2024
OnlyFans’ Law & Order
Meta executives were bracing for the porn trial of the century, with thousands of adult actresses slated to testify to a bizarre bribery scheme. On Monday, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence, but not before raising some uncomfortable questions.
Eriq Gardner
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September 18, 2024
TikTok’s Rough Day in Court
Up close and in-person at the blockbuster trial—the First Amendment angle, the NatSec concerns, the creators’ pleas, the lawyers’ moxie, and Hollywood’s reticence to get involved.