Jason Koebler

A new class of AI startups say they are taking money that would normally be used to hire people and are spending it on AI compute instead.

Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.

Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

Jeff Bezos learns being good at YouTube is not so easy. An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S.

"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."

This week, we discuss Spencer Pratt, bricking phones, and the FTC.

This week, we discuss going deeper and Google's search changes. This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together.