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Shrinking portion sizes for junk food is probably the best thing we could do. Some 37% of Americans are obese. Back in the 40s and 50s, a normal amount of, say, Coca-Cola was a tin…

I'm thrilled someone has attempted to quantify the lies, fraud and deception that has been the norm here in Silicon Valley for decades. I've worked at startups, have friends who ar…

Both Apple and OpenAI want to demo desktop robots this year and ship early next year. It's a race between Apple engineers who stayed and Apple engineers who left.

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.

Less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers—at least…

A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-po…

You can use Google News to search social media for your specific phrase, or you can search news sites for the disconnected words in your phrase, but you can't search news sites for…

It’s complicated

While Apple and Google are adding AI apps to smartphones, Chinese companies are replacing apps with AI.

Kagi, obviously (disclosure: My son works for Kagi.)

I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for very, VERY specific subjects like the Attachment Economy, synthetic relationships, and a hundreds others, and…

Now, when I do my traditional searches, a huge majority of some of my searches are from Instagram or other social media sites, not news publishing sites. Many of my results are in …

It’s part of an art project, and the “canvas” is capitalism.

On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it has granted the Amazon-owned Zoox a temporary exemption, allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles ann…

Opus won the benchmark simulation by taking collusion and other dishonest tactics to a whole new level.