From ‘cloud washing’ to ‘AI washing’
Remember cloud washing from a few years ago? This term refers to the practice of companies representing their products and services as cloud-based when they...
7 Best Electric Toothbrushes (2023): Cheap, Smart, Kids, and Alternatives
I hate brushing my teeth. I do it, yeah, because I have to, but it’s a time-consuming, uncomfortable process—two minutes standing in front of...
The Download: AI’s gold rush, and how to regulate generative models
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, a gold rush has started over the last several months to make money from generative AI...
AI and the future of software development
AI-driven software development is no longer a futuristic dream. With GitHub Copilot, more than 1.2 million developers already rely on artificial intelligence to generate...
To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health
How is it that public health has delivered on its promise to improve the lives of millions, while failing to resolve the dramatic health disparities...
Hate How Hard It Is to Cancel Subscriptions? The FTC Feels You
It’s easy to get overloaded by subscription services with recurring renewal fees. But it’s typically way harder to get rid of them. Some companies...
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks...
Power struggle When Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, got access to the new...
Spin 1.0 aims to simplify WebAssembly microservices
Fermyon Technologies has published Spin 1.0, the first stable release the company’s open source framework for building event-driven microservice applications with WebAssembly.Spin 1.0 was...
Fostering innovation through a culture of curiosity
And so I think a big part of it as a company, by setting these ambitious goals, it forces us to say if we...
Bob Metcalfe, The Man Who Discovered Network Effects, Isn’t Sorry
ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came after I sought the...
