Articles

  • The OpenAI Keynote

    OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.


  • Attenuating Innovation (AI)

    Innovation required humility about the future and openness to what might be possible; Biden’s executive order proscribing AI development is the opposite, blocking progress and hindering the solutions to our greatest challenges.


  • China Chips and Moore’s Law

    Moore’s Law is not yet dead, nor is Moore’s Precept, even if AI computes differently. Addressing both is the key to succeeding with the China chip ban.


  • AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality

    Defining virtual reality as being about hardware is to miss the point: virtual reality is AI, and hardware is an (essential) means to an end.


  • FTC Sues Amazon

    The FTC is suing Amazon, and some of the complaints are compelling, but ultimately not convincing.


  • Charter-Disney Winners and Losers

    Winners and losers from the Disney-Charter stand-off, as The Great Re-bundling begins


  • The Rise and Fall of ESPN’s Leverage

    Charting ESPN’s rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet.


  • Nvidia On the Mountaintop

    Nvidia has gone from the valley to the mountain-top in less than a year, thanks to ChatGPT and the frenzy it inspired; whether or not there is a cliff depends on developing new kinds of demand that only GPUs can fulfill.


  • Disney’s Taylor Swift Era

    Not even Taylor Swift can fight the devaluation of recorded music, but she makes it up in physical experiences; Disney isn’t much different, but it looks much worse given the company’s old business model.


  • Hollywood on Strike

    The Hollywood strike is setting talent against studios, but the problem is that both are jointly threatened by the reality of the Internet and zero distribution costs.