A.I.
Ian Krietzberg
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July 14, 2026
Will America’s Next President Run Against A.I.?
The polling says artificial intelligence isn’t a top-tier issue for voters… yet. But beneath the affordability crisis, Washington’s top political strategists are picking up early signals of an anti-tech populist revolt.
Ian Krietzberg
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July 9, 2026
Zuck’s A.I. Landlord Era
Meta’s new plan to start selling compute raises a bunch of uncomfortable questions, and not just for the neoclouds it might put out of business: After years of Meta needing more compute than it could produce, what does its sudden surplus say about demand for A.I. overall?
Ian Krietzberg
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July 7, 2026
Bernie’s A.I. Warrior Has a No-Go List
Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Bernie-endorsed Senate candidate, has released an aggressive A.I.-regulation plan that includes Big Tech divestiture (you heard that right) and a series of “no-goes.” Here, he talks about A.I. as an affordability issue, the myth of Chinese domination, and the inaction of the U.S. Senate.
Ian Krietzberg
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June 30, 2026
A.I. vs. Trump’s Fire & Fury
In the wake of a new federal review process for frontier model deployments, some in the industry are worried that Trump & Co. might be handing the A.I. race to the Chinese. Can an administration known for chaos provide a sufficient vetting framework and process—stat?
Ian Krietzberg
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June 25, 2026
Allbirds’ A.I. Pivot Is Not a Joke
C.E.O. Nadia Carlsten defends the company’s surreal pivot from shoewear to A.I.—its plans to take on CoreWeave and Dell, how it raised all that money, and why bespoke is the future for neoclouds. “The origin story doesn’t really matter,” she insists. “The results will speak for themselves.”
Ian Krietzberg
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June 23, 2026
The Bores Identity
Whatever happens on primary night, the A.I. dark money battle over Alex Bores is merely the opening of a broader industry proxy war—with hundreds of millions of dollars ready to deploy into 2028.
Ian Krietzberg
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June 18, 2026
The Ex-Pixar Producer Who’s All In on A.I.
A captivating conversation with Márcia Mayer, a former Pixar producer who now works at Google DeepMind, about the lab’s new A.I.-assisted short film that’s become the talk of Tribeca.
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.