Ian Krietzberg

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's Bernie-endorsed Senate candidate, has released an aggressive A.I.-regulation plan that includes Big Tech divestiture (you

Jul 7, 2026 Ian Krietzberg Welcome to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Did anyone else catch Google’s new Independence Day–themed ad that reimagines the drafting of the Declaration of Independence with assistance from Gemini and Google Workspace? I’m sure Lin-Manuel Miranda supports that message wholeheartedly… Speaking of politics: Last week, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul […]

Meta's new plan to start selling compute raises a bunch of uncomfortable questions, and not just for the neoclouds it might put out of business: After years of Meta needing more compute than it could produce, what does its sudden surplus say about demand for A.I. overall?

The polling says artificial intelligence isn’t a top-tier issue for voters… yet. But beneath the affordability crisis, Washington’s top political strategists are picking up early signals of an anti-tech populist revolt.

Ian Krietzberg Welcome to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said “killer robots” ought to be “banned by international law.” Two days later, NATO members got together in Ankara and affirmed that they are “developing an interoperable transatlantic warfighting cloud and adopting powerful A.I. models.” Wonder what James Cameron […]

A.I. tools are transforming software engineering, allowing small teams to multiply output—but surging token costs mean a total reimagining coding itself.

Ukraine has become a testing ground for new ways of fighting a war—cheap drones, A.I. targeting systems, autonomous ground vehicles, etcetera—all

The first “A.I.-built” film is coming to theaters in October, with the pioneering ambition of demonstrating how the technology can propel a human-scripted underdog project to the big screen. I spoke with creator Zack London and co-producer Edward Saatchi about how it was made—and whether anyone will see it as “just a movie.”

In the aftermath of the OpenAI–Hugging Face fiasco, Rep. Ted Lieu's new Kill Switch bill might be the right legislation, at the right time, to create bipartisan comity around federal A.I. regulation. Or not…

A surprisingly upbeat conversation with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman about the “magic” of A.I., why the doom-and-gloom narratives are “myopic,” and how he and Sam Altman are trying to change public perception.