One of the most paradoxical aspects of AI is that while it is hailed as the route to abundance, the most important financial outcomes have been about scarcity. The first and most obvious example has ...

Meta won another fair use case, even though the judge wanted to rule against LLMs; he’ll have a hard time doing so.

The first big AI copyright decision has come down, and it’s a big win for AI. It also provides a blueprint for how Congress ...

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This is how I opened January 2023’s AI and the Big Five: The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable ...

If WWDC’s opening video — which cast Apple executives as characters in the upcoming F1 movie, with Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi in the starring role — was a bit of a ...

The thing that is super important if you think about what an open-agentic web could be, is you need agents to be able to take actions on your behalf, and one of the really important things about ...

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of ...

Apple and the iPhone is analogous to Microsoft and Windows, for better and for worse: the better part is that there are many more smartphones sold than PCs, which means that Apple, even though it ...

Pretend, if you can, that the last week didn’t happen (a tall order for the Stratechery demographic, I know), and imagine another scenario: China invades Taiwan. What happens then? I’m not a military ...

I can’t completely vouch for every number on this table (which was sourced from Wikipedia), as Apple hasn’t yet released the full technical details of the M3 Ultra, and it’s not yet available for ...

It has long been a useful cliché to say that covering tech is easy, because something is always happening; now that that something is AI, that is more true than ever. Nearly every Article on ...