As the messy Musk v. Altman trial enters week two, the A.I. industry has yet to grapple with the improbable but earth-shattering consequences if the jury actually sides with Elon. With an I.P.O. off t...

OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman, still shaking off a pair of terrifying attacks on his home in as many weeks, struck a notably softer note during a recent podcast appearance. “There’s a fear with A.I.,” he a...

For more than a month, tech stocks have been obliterated over investor fears that new A.I. tools, such as Claude Code and Cowork, will diminish the vitality of the software-as-a-service business. But ...

A sobering conversation about the A.I. arms race between Washington and Beijing: what’s real, what’s overblown, and what China really wants.

Over the past half-decade, Nagish has emerged as one of the more promising companies harnessing A.I. to help hearing-impaired people with speech-to-text—and soon, real-time sign language translation.

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are betting big on nuclear energy to power their A.I. data centers. But weakened regulations may create risks, nuclear safety experts warn.

News and notes on Aloe, a buzzy new entrant in the A.I. race, which is seemingly capable of building, vetting, and using tools to more reliably answer user queries.

In a candid conversation, astronaut turned senator Mark Kelly discusses his new A.I. policy road map, how the private sector can help “win” the A.I. arms race, and whether going all in on the technolo...

Professors and academics discuss how A.I. has invaded their classrooms, whether it’s incompatible with the aims of higher education, and their recently published open letter calling on universities to...

Slingshot, which counts a16z as an investor, recently launched “Ash,” a new therapy chatbot that’s being billed as a cheap pocket shrink. Is this an improvement on the current anthropomorphizing of Ch...

While others have abandoned the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Amazon’s AGI Labs is still chasing the dream. Cognitive scientist Danielle Perszyk explains how they’re trying to build adva...

Algorithmic A.I. is coming for Hollywood, publishing, and even the music industry. Eriq Gardner, Julia Alexander, and Ian Krietzberg debate whether consumers or the courts will fight back.

July 31, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. I’ve been speaking to a number of players in the A.I.-media space, and recently came across a pitch for something nov...

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July 15, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer, my new twice-weekly email devoted to the opaque, high-stakes world of artificial intelligence. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Thanks for all the gre...

July 10, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer, my new twice-weekly private email on the business of A.I. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Thanks for all the great feedback on our inaugural issue, c...

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Artificial intelligence provides new evidence that rapid decarbonization will not prevent warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius. The hottest years of this century are likely to shatter recent records.

A newsletter about how climate change affects technology and infrastructure – and what we can do about it. Click to read The Reengineer, by Chris Baraniuk, a Substack publication. Launched 13 minutes ...

It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.

L'intelligenza artificiale generativa pone tantissime questioni a più livelli, convergenti e intersecanti come in un quadro di Escher: quali sono e saranno l...