Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Eric Brandwine, VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Security, told The Register something this week — picked up by The Next Web — that should be obvious and somehow still isn't, in most boardrooms: humans are bad at watching things. Not bad at judgment. Bad at the...

Sam Altman went to Michigan last week, stood next to Governor Whitmer in a tent on a former cornfield, and said the quiet part out loud — except this time it wasn't an accident. He was proud of it. OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital held a groundbreaking for the $16 billion "Saline Barn" — a 1.65 million-square-foot...

WWDC 2026 was today. Tim Cook's last as CEO, Craig Federighi on stage talking about platform improvements, trust, and safety — and somewhere between the homeOS preview and the AI announcements, iOS 27 confirmed what became obvious pretty early in the 26.x saga: the Liquid Glass slider is real, it's coming, and it...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. A follow-up to Jensen's New Math. On May 5th, while the tech press was busy looking elsewhere, NVIDIA quietly announced something that got a fraction of the attention it deserved. No leather jacket keynote. No packed auditorium. Just a press release, a startup nobody'd...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Yesterday I wrote about the internal Microsoft document that labeled Phase 1 of their Scout AI rollout "Make people addicted." The document was written by Omar Shahine — Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Scout — whose name is on the document, on Microsoft's own...

Apple's Privacy Is Now Underwritten by Google and Nvidia. Let That Sink In. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri sounds great in a world where it's your choice, your hardware, or at worst a server sitting effectively next to the iCloud you're already trusting. It...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Microsoft just announced Scout at Build 2026 — their new "always-on personal agent" built on OpenClaw and baked into Microsoft 365. Another AI assistant, another keynote. Normally I'd file it and move on, but then 404 Media got hold of the internal documents. The...

He Didn't Get the Memo. Again. Jensen Huang was at Computex 2026 this week, and he had a big day. Several big days, actually. Let's go through them. First, he told the room that AI reducing jobs is "complete nonsense." His evidence? Software engineers are being hired more because AI makes them more productive....

Florida just became the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT. And I had to read that twice. Not because the lawsuit is surprising — someone was eventually going to throw the first punch, and I've been documenting why for a while. But Florida. Not California, which has been loudly performing AI safety concern for...

So Jensen Huang walked on stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei today — same leather jacket, same big energy — and announced something nobody quite saw coming from the guy who's been busy cornering the AI datacenter market: Nvidia's first ARM-based PC chip. The RTX Spark superchip — also referred to as the N1X (not the...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's start with Wikipedia, because the irony is almost too perfect to pass up. In mid-May, the Wikimedia Foundation fired Brooke Vibber — the lead developer of MediaWiki since 2003, the first full-time employee the Foundation ever hired, and their first Chief...

A few days after I wrote about Google replacing Search with Gemini wearing Search's clothes, the numbers started coming in. DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, sustained across six consecutive days, holding through Memorial Day weekend when DDG normally sees traffic drop. On iOS...

Part of the TheranasAI arc within Big Tech's War on Users Thought I was done talking about OpenAI and Sam Altman for a while, right? They didn't get the memo. The trial ended Monday. The jury took less than two hours. While everyone was watching an Oakland courthouse, OpenAI spent five days quietly building...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Yesterday I published a post about Apple's privacy promise looking increasingly like a marketing slogan. Then Google held I/O the same day and made the whole thing worse. TechCrunch's headline wasn't wrong: Google Search as you know it is over. What replaces it isn't...

The jury took less than two hours. Three weeks of testimony. A man who didn't know what TL;DR means suing over fine print he didn't read. Less than two hours. The jury found that Musk's claims exceeded the statute of limitations. He tweeted that OpenAI was "captured by Microsoft" in 2020. He didn't sue until 2024. Under...