Scott Rosenberg
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's maxed-out megaphone: Shutdown power play will be hard to repeat
An extraordinary display of Elon Musk's social media power saw the world's richest man funnel the anger of his hundreds of millions of online followers against a bipartisan compromi
Government efficiency, Musk-style
Some Silicon Valley leaders and investors who have long itched to apply their startup toolkit to government see a big opening in the Republican victory, with Elon Musk taking charge of a
Young AI just got a ticket to run wild
American voters have just decided—among many other things—that artificial intelligence will grow up in a permissive, anythin
Election outcome has two different worlds for AI
Artificial intelligence, like everything else in the U.S.
AI manifestos flood the tech zone
Writing a manifesto predicting a glorious AI-driven future has become a mandatory ritual for artificial intelligence (AI) leaders. The compulsion to share utopian AI roadmaps might mean that these CEOs and investors see breakthroughs right around the corner in their lab—and they want to make sure the world knows just how close we are to nirvana.
Breaking up Google is hard to do
A federal judge is actively considering breaking up Google after a landmark ruling last week that the tech giant has illegally abused its search monopoly. A court