What Lt. Col. Boz and Big Tech’s Enlisted Execs Will Do in the Army
When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being…
How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’
On May 16, 2023, Sam Altman appeared before a subcommittee of the…
No, Graduates: AI Hasn’t Ended Your Career Before It Starts
I say … no. In fact my mission today is to tell…
Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting
The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large…
Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI
In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once…
AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the…
Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here
Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much…
2025: The Year of the AI App
What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025.…
DeepSeek Has Gotten OpenAI Fired Up
It’s been just over a week since DeepSeek upended the AI world.…
The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence
Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic,…