A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?
This week, after months in which rogue agents have caused havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand A.I. At the same time, two of the biggest companies in the field — OpenAI and Meta — released what they say are their most useful (a…
566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?
Most industries have become more productive over time. But not construction! We identify the causes — and possible solutions. (Can you say ... “prefab”?) RESOURCES:
"The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector," by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson (BFI Working Paper, …
Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
This week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Anthropic’s private meetings with religious scholars on A.I. consciousness and how to make Claude “good,” its differences with the Vatican a…
New AI Features: Trying Claude Design and ChatGPT Images
The big AI companies are adding new features almost every week, and it’s hard to keep up. So this week I took a deep dive into two of the newest – Claude Design and ChatGPT Images – and put them to work on real projects from my own life.
I asked both of them to make the very same storybook, starrin…
Elizabeth Holmes: Is She Conning Nathan Fielder, or Is He Conning Her?
Did Nathan Fielder expose Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes—or exploit her? Vanessa and Natalie disagree about his new documentary, You Can See Everything, which follows the blood-testing startup founder before she starts an 11 year prison sentence for defrauding investors. Tech writer and guest host of …
What’s the Deal With Billy Evans? A Spoiler-Filled Guide to ‘You Can See Everything’
This week, we focus on Billy Evans, the breakout character of the documentary “You Can See Everything,” and his Theranos-esque new blood-testing start-up. Rob Copeland, a New York Times finance reporter, and Erin Griffith, a tech reporter, join Max Read to discuss what Evans is like when the camera…
This Week in Tech 585: I Can't Wait Till 2021
A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new ha…
This Week in Tech 585: I Can't Wait Till 2021
A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new ha…
This Week in Tech 585: I Can't Wait Till 2021
A massive botnet of IoT devices took down Dyne DNS, knocking several major US websites off line in a DDOS attack Friday. Hackers were able to break into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail accounts via a simple phishing scheme. Both Microsoft and Apple will hold events next week announcing new ha…
Israel’s First Election Since Oct. 7, and What Anthropic’s I.P.O. Means for the Whole Economy
Plus, why Halloween candy is scary expensive.
Here’s what we’re covering:
Live Updates: Israel Votes in Election Seen as Referendum on Netanyahu, by The New York Times
Netanyahu Pushed for Attack on Iran Ahead of Israeli Election, Officials Say, by David M. Halbfinger, Ronen Bergman, Natan Odenhe…
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