Exclusive eBook: The great Al hype correction of 2025
2025 was a year of reckoning, including how the heads of the top AI companies made promises they couldn’t keep. In this exclusive subscriber-only eBook,...
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The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
Are you interested in learning more about the ways in which AI is actually being used? We’ve launched a new weekly newsletter series exploring just...
The Download: What Moltbook tells us about AI hype, and the rise and rise of AI therapy
For a few days recently, the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social...
The Download: The future of nuclear power plants, and social media-fueled AI hype
AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity...
The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job
If you want to get a handle on all that, don’t expect any help from the AI companies—they’re turning on each other like it’s the...
The Download: cut through AI coding hype, and biotech trends to watch
Quote of the day “I am very annoyed. I’m very disappointed. I’m seriously frustrated.” —Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tells attendees at a healthcare conference this...
The Download: The worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype
Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. We like to think there’s a lesson in...
The Download: Why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Trump administration has launched its US Tech Force programIn a...
A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype
Examining Altman’s statements over the years reveals just how much his outlook has powered today’s AI boom. Even among Silicon Valley’s many hypesters, he’s been...
The great AI hype correction of 2025
Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and several...