Weekly roundup
Roundup: Smashing Teslas with stone heads
Read for a roundup of recent critical work on data centers and the resource demands of AI
Paris Marx is a tech critic who writes Disconnect. He’s also the host of Tech Won’t Save Us and the author of “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation.”
Weekly roundup
Read for a roundup of recent critical work on data centers and the resource demands of AI
Geopolitics
The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
Blog
Retailers are dropping physical media as streaming dominates, and that’s a real problem
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for the latest party Elon Musk killed just by showing up
Artificial Intelligence
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
Blog
Paris Marx’s journey from tech optimist to committed Luddite
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a more evidence of an access journalist’s close ties to tech CEOs
Book review
In “Burn Book,” the longtime tech journalist tries to rewrite her story for the post-techlash era
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Read to the end for OpenAI saying the quiet part out loud
Interview
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
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Read to the end for a bad NBA AI reveal
Video Games
A new strategy is angering fans as Xbox loses the console war and Game Pass fails to take off
Uber
Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits
Weekly roundup
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of
Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Interview
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google