The coming fall of Elon Musk isn’t showing up in the Forbes 400 yet. Democratic momentum isn’t showing up in the polls yet, either. But it’s coming. This dude is just too weird. Musk’s fortune is built on Tesla. The Cybertruck was Tesla’s Edsel. Sales of EVs are soaring, but those at Tesla are rolling […]

Sam Altman and OpenAI seemed to come out of nowhere, less than two years ago. ChatGPT, launched on November 30, 2022, has been defined as the Web browser of AI. Its release was a seminal moment when everyone in the industry “got it,” in terms of what Generative AI could do. But Altman is now in […]

The biggest tech story of 2024 is the death of Google. For a generation, when people wanted to find something, they’d say they were going to “google” it. This era is ending. Things like the Arc browser and sites like Perplexity are coming for Google’s search business. Consumers are using Reddit for search topics of […]

Evidence is growing that the boom in Large Language Models (LLM) is about to bust. A new study from Upwork, meant to boost Artificial Intelligence in the workplace, finds 47% of workers have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains with AI their bosses expect. As developer Baldur Bjanason notes, 77% say it has […]

John F. Kennedy was killed over 60 years ago. November 22, 1963 was the key event in Joe Biden’s political life. He turned 21 two days before. This is true for much of his generation. Kennedy’s claimed U-Turn on Vietnam helped inspire Vietnam War protestors. The killing of Martin and Bobby solidified the myth of […]

My long-time friend Tommy Bass, now in nursing care, did a full tour of duty as a Marine. In Vietnam. Early in the fighting. He was shot on three separate occasions, each wound graver than the one before. (He told me once this photo was shot about a mile away from him.) When he came […]

I am still rewriting the Moore’s Law book I first published 20 years ago. It’s a complete overhaul of what I published in 2021. It even has a new title, Huang’s Law. The section that has given me the most trouble involves the people benefiting the most from technology. I really believed, until recently, that […]

One of my few vivid memories of the presidency came 50 years ago this month. I was interning for a right-wing newspaper, believe it or not. I was sitting on a carpeted floor, part of the audience for William F. Buckley’s Firing Line. Despite being just 19 I was wearing a suit because I was […]

These are tough days for democrats. And Democrats. There’s no shame in admitting it. This week I watched a lot more sports on TV. I immersed myself in colonial era fiction and non-fiction. I took long e-bike rides. It’s not easy, since I’m a journalist. I was assigned a story on Trump Media today and […]

‘You think you know everything!” My late mother used to say that to me, back when I was a 12-year old smart aleck. I didn’t know everything. No one does. But I could mask it, even then, with confidence. Intuition, what the English call a “brain wave,” can substitute for knowledge. You don’t get serious […]