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Archives for June 2026

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Former Andreessen Horowitz partner John O’Farrell says his colleagues are trying to buy our democracy.

In a New York Times op-ed, the venture capitalist accused his Silicon Valley colleagues of using their vast wealth to shut down debate around regulating AI. He says there needs to be a conversation about how to use AI to benefit all of society, not just the wealthy few.

A.I. is not just another technology. It could drive productivity to new heights while automating away work for millions. It could find a cure for cancer, while accelerating biological risks we’re not prepared for. It could transform how our children learn, while leaving them unable to tell real from fake. It could concentrate economic power in ways that would make the Gilded Age look quaint.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Gore Verbinski says we need an AI “rating system” for movies.

The director of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die says he’s not totally against AI and wouldn’t fault a young indie filmmaker for turning to it if they couldn’t otherwise afford to create a key portion of a film. But he is concerned about its impact. According to Variety, saying:

You almost need a rating system. If you use AI to write a script, you get an F. What people are most afraid of is that there is no transparency. People are afraid of what is real and what isn’t.”

My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

How a yard work to-do list turned into a vibe-coding project.

Allison Johnson
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

What is a photo, iOS 27 edition.

Allison Johnson
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 

AI wasn’t just slop at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX reportedly rented out Colossus 1 AI data center after it ran into latency issues.

While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals renting capacity to Anthropic ($15 billion annually) and Google ($920 million per month) happened following hardware variation and lag issues:

Elon Musk’s company had planned to train its most cutting-edge AI models on a massive amount of computing power by using a cluster of three data center campuses. However, the firm encountered latency issues when connecting Colossus 1 with two other sites located more than 10 miles away, the people said, compounded by aging network infrastructure.

Siri is good now??Siri is good now??
David Pierce
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta is donating its AI glasses to the more than 130,000 blind veterans in the US.

Smart glasses, like the Ray-Ban Meta, have become a resource for people with disabilities. Meta says the company and its partners will provide hands-on training for all the veterans who receive a free pair of AI glasses through the Blinded Veterans Association or TechSoup.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SPCX opens at $150 per share.

As reported by CNBC, the New York Times, and others, trading commenced at a price 11 percent above the $135 IPO price, but lower than the $175 shown in some earlier indications. It’s already spiked as high as $167, before falling back to $155. As long as the share price remains above $138, that is enough to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

It also gives SpaceX a market cap of over $2 trillion, making it currently the 6th most valuable public company in the US.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
TCL TVs have new Gemini voice controls.

The upgraded Gemini for Google TV experience lets you speak to open settings, adjust sound and picture, and fix issues by describing them, such as by saying “the screen is too dark.” It’s exclusive to select 2025 and 2026 TCL Google TV models for 60 days, and rolling out now in the US.