Kyle Chayka

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Kyle Chayka

Four tech billionaires walk into a mansion. It sounds like the setup for a punch line, but it also forms nearly the entire conceit behind “Mountainhead,” a savagely entertaining but somewhat shallow new satire written and directed by Jesse Armstrong, the creator of “Succession.” The film, which is streaming on HBO’s Max, is a sort of chamber play, its stage a modernist castle in Utah—the Mountainhead of the title—overlooking snowy peaks.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kyle Chayka

From ‘chunky numbers’ to ‘Decel’: The ultimate guide to translating Mountainhead’s insufferable Silicon Valley lingoJesse Armstrong, creator of the hit streaming series Succession, is out with a new creative project on his favorite subject: the super …

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Kyle Chayka

Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm co-founded, last year, by Jony Ive, the vastly influential designer known for his work with Steve Jobs at Apple. Ive led the designs of the original iMac, the iPad, and the Apple Watch, among other era-defining products. Then, in 2019, he left Apple to start his own design firm called LoveFrom.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Kyle Chayka

It’s rare to hear the word “genocide” uttered unequivocally on television, let alone on the streaming service Disney+. So it was a bit of a shock to encounter the term in a late episode of the second season of “Andor,” a “Star Wars”-spinoff miniseries that has become something like the “Game of Thrones” of George Lucas’s space-opera expanded universe: grittier, grungier, and more political than its predecessors.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Kyle Chayka

5 hours agoRonny Chieng had an "expert" response to the Homeland Security secretary after she fumbled these "basics of American law." “Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng on Tuesday slammed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after she fumbled a response to a question on habeas corpus, referring to the …