Patrick Kulp

New York

Senior Tech Reporter at Morning Brew

senior tech reporter @morningbrew | previously @adweek, @mashable | tips: [email protected]

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What tariffs could mean for the AI race

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

For the tech giants building out the next generation of AI, 2025 was already going to be an expensive year. President Trump’s tariffs might balloon those price tags further—but how much remains unclear. Microsoft, Google, Meta, and other big AI companies have pledged to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure projects this year.
AI companies take aim at scientific discovery

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Systems like ChatGPT have now been trained on the near-sum of all human knowledge. Yet they spend much of their time whipping up emails or regurgitating facts. What would it take for generative AI to spawn new ideas? That’s a question that tech companies and research labs seem to be increasingly asking as they explore how GenAI might aid in the process of scientific discovery. New AI systems aim to give scientists tools to supercharge the hypothesis and experimentation flow.
AI researchers are split on how AI will impact society

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Almost everybody has an opinion about the future of AI these days. But what do experts who spend day in and day out studying this technology think about its impact? That’s what a recently published poll of more than 4,200 AI researchers from University College London aims to pin down. The authors claim the preprint paper is the largest social science survey of such technologists to date.
OpenAI is rethinking its open-weights strategy

1 week ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

OpenAI plans to once again live up to the adjective in its name. The company announced that, “in the coming months,” it will release its first open-weights language model since GPT-2 in 2019. The move comes as the splash caused by DeepSeek’s open models enlivened the open side of an ongoing split among AI developers. Meta’s release of its latest Llama 4 models this month, despite some controversy around benchmarking, has also amped up competition in the space.
Microsoft stakes out an AI future at 50th anniversary event

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Under an uncharacteristically sunny Pacific Northwest sky last week, hundreds of Microsoft employees filed into a hangar-like structure on the company’s sprawling Redmond, Washington, campus to celebrate a half-century of software dominance. Emceed by actor Brenda Song, the 50th anniversary event gathered Microsoft’s three CEOs—Bill Gates (1975–2000), Steve Ballmer (2000–2014), and current chief Satya Nadella—in a rare joint appearance to reminisce about the last five decades.
Here are 3 big takeaways from Stanford’s AI Index report

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

If you have questions about the current state of generative AI, you might be hard-pressed to find one that’s not at least touched on in Stanford’s 434-page AI Index. The report, from the university’s Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), covers everything from business adoption of AI and global regulation to research progress and its role in scientific discovery. We spoke with Stanford HAI’s director of research, Vanessa Parli, about some of the biggest takeaways from this year’s edition.
Microsoft debuts more features for AI outside work

2 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

While Microsoft’s Copilot may be most familiar as an officemate right now, the tech giant wants its AI assistant to be of more use off the clock, too. At a 50th anniversary event in Redmond, Washington, this week, Microsoft touted a slew of consumer-focused improvements to its Copilot product, including personalized memory and the ability to help with tasks like shopping and booking reservations.
Inflection’s CEO on how the startup has pivoted in the past year

3 weeks ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

Once among the highest-flying AI startups, Inflection has spent the last several months shifting its focus to more down-to-earth tech. Around a year ago, the startup’s path was forever altered when Microsoft inked a deal to license Inflection’s models and hire much of its staff, including co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan.
Some researchers are rethinking how to measure AI intelligence

1 month ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

A paper from the European Commission last month may have marked one of the first times that the phrase “hella swag” has appeared in the lawmaking body’s policy research. HellaSwag—the name is actually a mouthful of an acronym—is one of many go-to benchmarks that AI developers use to gauge the performance of their models. You’ve probably seen them listed like report cards in OpenAI or Google announcements. These benchmarks influence how companies train and develop models.
Nvidia unveils new foundation model for humanoid robots

1 month ago | emergingtechbrew.com | Patrick Kulp

For all generative AI’s advances in language and reasoning, it’s still confined to our screens for now. That could eventually change as the tech industry steps up sci-fi-esque efforts to give this new intelligence a human-shaped shell.