Articles Written By:
Fred Vogelstein
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Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire up one of the most dated-looking websites online to find out what’s going on in their world. Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai at Google, Satyla Nadella at Microsoft, Matthew Prince at Cloudflare along with investors Mark
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Sixteen years ago Matthew Prince and classmate Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School decided there was a better way to help companies handle hacker attacks to their websites. Prince and a friend had already built an open source system to help anyone with a website more easily track spammers. What if the three of them
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Eighteen months ago as the AI chatbot revolution was taking hold, Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi both realized something profound was happening to the way the internet worked. AI web crawlers had begun inundating news and information websites with thousands of requests a day compared to the handful they typically saw from search engines. Not
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By Fred Vogelstein There’s going to be ever building momentum in the coming months to take one of the most innovative companies in American history – Google – and blow it up. The company has been judged an illegal monopolist in two Federal courts. And the rulings, when read together, paint a picture of a
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Patrick Hsu got noticed early as an academic superstar. He was taking classes and doing lab work at Stanford University when he was 14. He had his PhD from Harvard in biochemistry and biological engineering by the time he was 21. It was cutting edge schooling too. Most of his college, masters and PhD work from 2010 to
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I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users. I stopped using it. This is the biggest
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This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025. 1994 was the year Netscape unveiled the first mainstream internet browser. 2007 was the year Apple unveiled the iPhone. And 2022, a hair over 2 years ago, was the year Open AI unveiled ChatGPT. There
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For the past two years – since ChatGPT ignited the modern AI revolution – I’ve wondered aloud to anyone who would listen about when AI was going to enable the large language model of me. Instead of crawling the public internet, it would create a queryable database exclusively based on the digital file cabinets of
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When you talk to Jakob Uszkoreit you have to bring your “A“ game. It’s not because he’s evasive. It’s because the stuff he’s working on is cutting edge enough that you need every neuron firing to keep up with what he’s talking about. Uszkoreit is one of the fathers of modern AI. In 2017 he