Ian Krietzberg

With public opinion—and a slew of presidential hopefuls—beating back A.I.’s “no rules” agenda, the lobbyist armies of Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI are suddenly supporting safeguards they rejected just a year ago.

Of all the altruistic promises of A.I., none has been as tantalizing to frontier labs as curing disease. The Allen Institute has now launched an ambitious tech-fueled initiative, with $400 million and dozens of high-powered partnerships, to attack the most tantalizing target of all: brain disease.

Sanders wants 50% of A.I. companies. Trump wants 'pieces.' OpenAI wants a dividend fund. A surprising political consensus is taking shape.

A captivating conversation with Márcia Mayer, a former Pixar producer who now works at Google DeepMind, about the lab’s new A.I.-assisted short film that’s become the talk of Tribeca.

Whatever happens on primary night, the A.I. dark money battle over Alex Bores is merely the opening of a broader industry proxy war—with hundreds of millions of dollars ready to deploy into 2028.

It sounds like a B-plot straight out of HBO’s Silicon Valley: In April, Allbirds, the struggling shoewear company once favored by tech guys, announced that it was pivoting to A.I. and would begin buying up G.P.U.s. In hours, the company’s stock, which had once fallen so far it was in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq, shot up 600 percent.

In the wake of a new federal review process for frontier model deployments, some in the industry are worried that Trump & Co. might be handing the A.I. race to the Chinese. Can an administration known for chaos provide a sufficient vetting framework and process—stat?

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?