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street view
Feb. 26, 2024
The Googleplex Is Growing Google’s new St. John’s Terminal headquarters, meant to lure workers back to the office, is a city within a building.
screen time
Feb. 23, 2024
Can Reddit Survive Its IPO? The company wants to sell shares to users and user data to Google. Redditors might have other ideas.
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Feb. 22, 2024
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve Google’s new image generator is yet another half-baked AI tool that is practically designed to provoke controversy.
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Jan. 26, 2024
Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet Less a place of words written by people, more one of words generated by bots.
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Jan. 25, 2024
The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is Apple Nobody wants to lend a hand to the richest tech company on earth.
How Big Tech Companies Really Think About AI We’re learning a lot from what tech companies’ lawyers argue in response to the many lawsuits they face over their voracious AI models.
By John Herrman
screen time
Sept. 23, 2023
The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them? Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
By John Herrman
How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 Theories The media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
By John Herrman
screen time
July 21, 2023
Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber? Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
By John Herrman
office apocalypse
July 17, 2023
The Teetering Tech Office Meta and Twitter are shedding square footage, while Amazon and Google aren’t giving up the dream.
By Adriane Quinlan
Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media? The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back.
By John Herrman
The End of Search As You Know It AI is about to turn content discovery on its head.
By Sam Sanders
screen time
Mar. 31, 2023
Is AI Coming for Coders First? The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
By John Herrman
screen time
Mar. 26, 2023
Will ChatGPT Become Your Everything App? The announcement of an app store for the AI chat interface reveals the scale of OpenAI’s ambitions.
By John Herrman
screen time
Mar. 15, 2023
The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived It’ll write your emails for you and read them, too. What could go wrong?
By John Herrman
Google and Bing Are a Mess. Will AI Solve Their Problems? This new era of search is a story about automation. But it’s also a story about corporate choices.
By John Herrman
screen time
Sept. 19, 2022
AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different Work, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
By John Herrman
Is There Such a Thing As an Ethical Smart City? Josh O’Kane’s new book on Sidewalk Labs’ failed city of the future says there’s potential.
By Alissa Walker
preservation watch
July 28, 2022
It’s Actually Good News That Google Bought the Thompson Center Helmut Jahn’s iconic Chicago building now has a chance at being preserved.
By Diana Budds
the economy
July 18, 2022
Apple to Slow Hiring in Latest Economic Warning As tech behemoths warn of retrenchment, Goldman Sachs predicted that the job market will slow “sharply.”
By Benjamin Hart
How I Found the New Roof Park at Pier 57 The city’s newest public park tries to be everything at once and ends up feeling like a private space.
By Eva Hagberg
getting around
June 14, 2022
By Clio Chang
the streaming wars
Mar. 23, 2022
By Savannah Salazar
RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans RT America released a memo today announcing layoffs in New York, L.A., Miami, and D.C.
By Rebecca Alter
peace on earth
Dec. 19, 2021
By Jennifer Zhan
developing
Sept. 30, 2021
With Google Moving In, Hudson Square Is Trying to Spruce Up the Place The neighborhood is now a major tech hub, so it should probably be connected to the rest of the city.
By Valeria Ricciulli
Why Subscriptions May Be the Wave of the Future In an increasingly privacy-focused world, paying a premium may look more attractive.
By Intelligencer Staff
It’s Mark Versus Rupert Down Under Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what the intense fight over online news in Australia means for the rest of the world.
By Intelligencer Staff
social media
Jan. 10, 2021
Amazon, Apple, and Google Cut Off Parler, Citing Failure to Moderate Extremism The site, which has been a haven for many on the far right, may not be long for this world in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.
By Chas Danner
silicon valley
Jan. 4, 2021
Google Workers Are Unionizing The news follows years of bad press for the tech giant.
By Sarah Jones
just asking questions
Nov. 2, 2020
Scott Galloway on the Antitrust Case Against Google The case is sure to take years, but the ramifications for Silicon Valley — and the country in general — may be huge.
By James D. Walsh
DOJ Launches First Major Antitrust Case Against Google The search giant pays mobile companies and browsers to make Google their preset search engine. The Justice Department says that’s illegal.
By Eric Levitz
Will Tech’s Big Four Be Smart Enough to Help Break Themselves Up? Pivot’ s Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what’s next for tech’s largest firms after a House Judiciary report called for their dismantlement.
By Intelligencer Staff
the top line
Sept. 10, 2020
Softbank Found Another Dumb Way to Invest Naturally, the tech behemoth that lost billions on WeWork has found a new, weird thing to do with its investors’ cash.
By Josh Barro
Is This the Beginning of the End of Big Tech As We Know It? Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the House tech-antitrust hearing and how it could lead toward breaking up giants like Amazon or Facebook.
By Intelligencer Staff
the top line
July 29, 2020
Don’t Give Up on Offices Quite Yet Even companies like Google that are well suited to remote work understand the value of in-person interactions.
By Josh Barro
How Should Congress Grill the Big 4 Tech CEOs? Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway play Antitrust Subcommittee members for a day.
By Intelligencer Staff
Why Big Tech’s Congressional Testimony Will Be a Bust Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss why they’re pessimistic about this month’s grilling of Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cook, and Pichai.
By Intelligencer Staff
All Eyes on the Protests How streaming news networks are emerging as valuable resources for anyone looking to go beyond cable news coverage.
By Josef Adalian
Was the Obama Administration Too Soft on Big Tech? Kara Swisher talks with a key member of the president’s economic team about why companies like Google and Amazon were largely left unchecked.
By Intelligencer Staff
Does the Government Have a Chance Against Google? Pivot’s Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss whether the DOJ’s antitrust investigation of the tech behemoth is doomed to fail.
By Intelligencer Staff
coronavirus
Apr. 20, 2020
Four Tech Giants Are Solidifying Their Domination of the Post-Coronavirus World Scott Galloway examines the staggering gains anticipated at Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon during the historic economic downturn.
By Scott Galloway
the top line
Dec. 13, 2019
The Lessons of Away’s Weird Company Culture A hardass CEO isn’t necessarily a problem. But don’t let things get out of hand.
By Josh Barro
year in review
Dec. 11, 2019
E-Girl, Soft Girl, VSCO Girl: How TikTok Trends Defined 2019 The most-Googled “outfit ideas” were popularized by the app.
By Emilia Petrarca
Big Tech’s Most Powerful Apostates, Ranked Self-criticism is suddenly huge in Silicon Valley. But not all critiques are created equal.
By Max Read
elementary my dear watson
Dec. 4, 2019
By Charu Sinha
Google Stadia’s Terrible Launch Doesn’t Matter in the Long Run Terrible word of mouth is no match for the power of being the top result on Google’s search engine.
By Brian Feldman
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