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Lyft’s Vibe Shift Signals the End of the Gig Economy Dream
Last week, Lyft suddenly announced that its cofounders, president Logan Green and CEO John Zimmer, would step away from the…
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The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War
A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped…
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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…
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The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse
At first glance, the Silicon Valley Bank debacle seems to be a cut-and-dried financial caper. The executives running the 16th-largest bank…
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How to Start an AI Panic
Last week the Center for Humane Technology summoned over 100 leaders in finance, philanthropy, industry, government, and media to the…
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A Native Son of Palo Alto Thinks His Hometown Will Kill Us All
I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a…
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Who Should You Believe When Chatbots Go Wild?
In 1987, then-CEO of Apple Computer, John Sculley, unveiled a vision that he hoped would cement his legacy as more…
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Google Pioneered Stratospheric Loon Balloons. Was China Watching?
Alphabet pulled the plug on Loon in early 2021. It was a business decision, not a reflection on the technology—basically, its…
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Down the Chatbot Rabbit Hole
Further generations of humans—or robots—might one day look back on this week as the tipping point in the way that…
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Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
In mid-2021, Gabor Cselle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch out ideas for new startups. On the first page,…
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