Alex Kantrowitz

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Alex Kantrowitz

Pro Available to WrapPRO members In a world where screens fade away and AI steps forward, where is Apple’s place? June 8, 2025 @ 12:19 PM Apple on Monday will unveil a beautiful new operating system at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.

3 weeks ago | bigtechnology.com | Alex Kantrowitz |Owen Lavine

Up until this afternoon, Elon Musk’s split with Donald Trump was mostly cordial. Despite an underwhelming stay in the White House, Musk said plenty of nice things about Trump upon leaving and Trump returned the favor. The conventional wisdom was both needed each other too much for the relationship to implode. The campaign money, the government contracts, and the mutually reinforcing celebrity were all too valuable to light on fire. Now, it’s all up in flames.

3 weeks ago | bigtechnology.com | Alex Kantrowitz |Norman Winarsky

For years, Siri co-founder Norman Winarsky asked his Stanford classes whether he and his colleagues made the right decision selling their voice bot to Apple. The investor, entrepreneur, and lecturer told me he leaned toward staying independent and IPO. But there was risk operating alone without a deep integration into a mobile operating system like iOS. So after much persistence from Steve Jobs, the deal went through.

4 weeks ago | bigtechnology.com | Alex Kantrowitz

Every AI bot’spersonality is the product of intentional decisions made within AI research houses, often behind closed doors. We typically only see glimpses of those decisions when things go awry, like in the cases of “white-genocide” Grok or “sycophant” ChatGPT. But otherwise, the process occurs in the background, influencing the type of conversations we have with the bots without our awareness. But late last week, Anthropic gave the public a peek into how it tunes Claude’s personality.

4 weeks ago | vktr.com | Alex Kantrowitz

Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft all made big headlines in a wild week of AI and other tech news. Here's the view from the ground. Table of ContentsThe Gist1. Scaling Isn’t Dead Yet2. But, There’s a Hedge3. Sergey Brin: Algorithmic Enhancements Will Lead4. AI Progress Will Move Faster5. Look Out for the First AI-Generated Crisis6. Video Generation Just Leapt Forward in a Massive Way7. The Sam Altman—Jony Ive Partnership Is a Signal8.