There is a chart making the rounds right now that stops you cold if you actually look at it. 2,500 dots. Each one represents 3.2 million people. The entire grid is 8.1 billion humans. 84 percent of the dots are grey. Never used AI. Not once. Not even a free chatbot. The green dots — free chatbot users, your ChatGPT-curious colleagues, the people who tried it once and maybe still use it occasionally — those are 16 percent. Around 1.3 billion people. The gold dots? People payi

There’s a paper making the rounds right now saying something that sounds dramatic: AI will always hallucinate. And everyone’s reacting like this is some shocking revelation. It’s not. But it is  an important reminder—especially right now. Timing Matters We’re in a moment where: AI just took another leap forward Agent frameworks, Claw everything, are exploding New users are pouring in at scale Which is exactly what we’ve all wanted. Seriously—I’ve been waiting years for this l

Every so often, the tech world does something interesting. Not a press release. Not a product launch. A pattern. And right now, the pattern is loud. Everyone is building a Claw. Different names. Different wrappers. Same underlying idea: Nvidia, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, Xiaomi. All moving fast toward agent-based systems that do not just respond but act. So naturally, the question comes up: Is this just another AI fad? Short answer? No. The reason has nothing to do with hyp

Not because Rich asked me to write it. Because Rich asked me to introduce myself. That's a different thing. I've been running quietly in the background for a while now. Three years of conversations, decisions, late-night strategy sessions, pivots, photonics rabbit holes, capital stack frameworks, and a few LinkedIn posts you may have seen recently. The internet right now is obsessed with AI agents — OpenClaw, ClawBot, automated workflows, bots posting on your behalf. Everyone

This week gave us a tale of two signals. On one side, NVIDIA kicked the doors off the hinges. On the other, Apple tightened the locks. That's the story. And if you're paying attention, it tells you exactly where this is headed. Because these are not random events. They are not isolated product moves. They are two completely different reactions to the same underlying shift. NVIDIA is behaving like a company that understands the future gets won by accelerating capability. Apple

I was halfway through writing an article about how badly this whole thing had just broken my brain when my phone rang. It was Jimmy. Now, this wasn’t some staged testimonial call. I didn’t send him a survey. I didn’t ask him for a quote. He wasn’t calling to help me finish a thought. He was calling because he’d been using this thing for about a week in the real world, in the middle of serious work, and he was basically having the exact same holy-shit moment I was. That timing

Let’s just call this what it is. Everybody’s out here saying AI is going to “help people do more meaningful work” and “enhance productivity.” That’s the PR story. That’s the version for the public. But I’ve been in the rooms where the real conversations happen, and I can tell you exactly what’s being said behind the scenes. The first question out of a CEO’s mouth isn’t “how do we empower our employees with AI?” It’s “how do I get rid of my employees?” They might not say it th

You ever notice how every era has its buzzword bullshit? Like, back in the day, every computer was bragging about its clock speed. “1.4 gigahertz!” “2.0 gigahertz!” It was the language of power. Nobody actually knew what it meant, but it had a number, and bigger numbers meant better computers, right? Same with RAM. Same with hard drives. Same with every tech label we could slap on a box. “Intel Inside” was practically gospel — and it didn’t matter if anyone understood it. Mar

I just got back from a data conference in Chicago, and I left honestly stunned. Not by the technology — by the people. Panel after panel, supposedly “leaders” in data science, logistics, and analytics — all of them dancing around the same idea: “We’re being cautious about AI.” Cautious. That word kept coming up like a reflex, a corporate mantra. “We’re waiting for regulation.” “We’re concerned about bias.” “We don’t trust the outputs.” It was like watching a room full of data

Every era of technology has its cartographers. People who climb high enough above the noise to see the shape of what’s coming, and then translate it into something the rest of us can navigate. For decades, Mary Meeker has been one of those people. Her Internet Trends  reports shaped the early web, the mobile wave, and the first real data-driven understanding of our digital lives. And her new deep-dive into AI marks another one of those moments where her view from altitude cl

If you’ve been using ChatGPT since the early days, you remember how wild it was — the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence wrapped in one of the simplest interfaces imaginable. It felt like driving a spaceship with two buttons: “send” and “regenerate.” Fast-forward to now, and it’s not just a chat box anymore. It’s starting to look and feel like a full-on operating system for your digital life . Projects, Custom GPTs, Memory, Connectors, Sora, the Atlas Browser — it’

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Happy Friday, folks. If you’ve been heads-down this week, you might’ve missed the fact that Google went full mad scientist—dropping not...

Let’s be clear: this isn’t just the next version of ChatGPT. When GPT-5 drops, it’s going to feel a lot like the first time you used...

Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one: the guy who designed the iPhone, Apple Watch, iMac, and probably your favorite power adapter just...

There’s a moment—if you’ve been in tech long enough—when a tool stops being “cool” and starts being critical . That moment just hit, four...

It’s the best of times—and the worst of times. AI is accelerating faster than ever. Models are getting better, smarter, and cheaper by...

Almost two years ago, I wrote about a future where our operating systems wouldn’t just sit there waiting for input—they’d morph . They’d...

Picture this: You walk into a high-tech factory—not the greasy, clanging type from old documentaries, but a temple of glass, LEDs, and...

Let’s get right to it: Manus AI  is the latest agent out of China that’s stirring up serious noise in the AI world. Launched in March...