Dave Lee
OpenAI and Microsoft are avoiding a messy break-up
Microsoft retains access to OpenAI’s research until end-2030, or when (if) artificial general intelligence arrives, whichever is sooner – but who will verify...
Apple’s Plan B for AI is actually pretty great
The iPhone maker doesn’t have to sink billions of dollars into its own artificial intelligence when it can team up with a...
Is the AI winter finally upon us?
The tepid reception of GPT-5 and the sell-off of CoreWeave could be an inflection point – or a bump in the road
Perplexity’s bid for Google Chrome is mostly mischief
The US$34.5 billion offer is less a serious bid and more a serious attempt to meddle in Alphabet’s antitrust case
Apple and Cook get a boost – and breather – from iPhone sales
The CEO says AI-specific devices are ‘likely to be complementary devices, not substitution’ for the smartphone
Meta gets out its chequebook to catch up in the AI race
Mark Zuckerberg’s investment in Scale AI and its founder Alexandr Wang shows how AI startups have become farm teams for the big-spending...
AI spending is the only certainty in Silicon Valley right now
Tariffs loomed over quarterly technology earnings but didn’t derail the artificial-intelligence express
Google’s money-printing machine can be easily dismantled
TARGETED advertising is the business model that created much of the modern Internet, and no company has benefited more than Google. Last...
Hey Alexa, do you finally have a real business model?
Yes, I do, thanks to Amazon’s development of generative AI that makes sense for everyday people
Meta’s fact-checking reversal lets Zuckerberg drop the charade
The company’s decision to abandon fact-checking lets the CEO walk away from a responsibility he never wanted in the first place
