Scott Rosenberg

What AI's spending boom is really buying

Tech giants' astronomical spending on AI infrastructure comes with a colossal hedge: In a crucial way, it's not really spending on AI at all. Most of the h

AI's anything-goes moment

The artificial intelligence industry is getting nothing but green lights in all directions—now it needs to deliver on its promises. AI makers are getting everything they hav

AI is hitting multiple tipping points

AI is hitting multiple tipping points in its impact on the tech industry, communication, government and human culture—and speakers at Axios' AI+ Summit mapped the transformative moment.

AI leaves web in the lurch

The Artificial Intelligence-fixated tech industry is rapidly dismantling the old web, with no game plan for how to replace it. Chatbots have already begun to 

Americans to business: Take AI slow and do it right

While the tech industry floors the pedal on AI, the U.S. public would be happy to hit the brakes. More than three-quarters of Americans (77%) want companies to create AI slowly and get it right the first time, even if that delays breakthroughs, the 2025 Axios Harris 100 poll found. Only 23 percent of Americans want companies to develop AI quickly to speed breakthroughs, even at the price of mistakes along the way.

Google ad monopoly ruling's surprise winner

OpenAI wasn't mentioned once in a judge's 115-page decision against Google over its dominance of the online ad market—but the Chat

Hot new protocol glues together AI and apps

Artificial intelligence developers are embracing a new technical standard that's speeding up chatbots' capacity to access the rest of the software we use every day. The faster AI can start using the services and programs that shape our lives and work, the quicker it can save us time and money—and cause us new 

AI eats social media as xAI swallows X

Elon Musk's self-deal for his AI company xAI to acquire X, formerly Twitter, is the strongest sign yet that the AI business is devouring the social media world. Musk's move is a maneuver

AI infrastructure's all-out spending spree

Chipmakers, cloud providers, energy producers and artificial intelligence companies are all flooring the pedal on infrastructure spending to support an AI-driven world that doesn't yet exist. Investors are placing hundred-billion-dollar bets that demand for AI is about to explode, while the technology has yet to persuasively demonstrate its 

Musk resets Washington's permissions

Nearly every computer system draws a line between the right to look at files and the right to change them—but till now, the details barely mattered to most non-programmers. The early days of Trump's second administration—as