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Opinion

How Generative AI Threatens Hollywood’s Walled Gardens

Now you, too, can experiment with Mickey Mouse.

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.

May 8, 2024 12:08pm PDT · 1 comment

Opinion

How to Regain Control Over Your Data

No longer must we, the users, accept the terms and conditions of the contracts apps and platforms put in front of us. Instead, we require them to sign our terms and conditions.

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Frank H. McCourt Jr.

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Michael Casey

Apr 3, 2024 9:00am PDT · 3 comments

Opinion

To Build a Winning Defense Tech Company, Think Outside the Pentagon

Success typically depends on commercial sales.

By

Tom Biegala

Mar 27, 2024 9:00am PDT · 2 comments

AI Has an Uber Problem

By Tim O'Reilly · Mar 5, 2024 6:09am PST · 26 comments

Opinion

AI Has an Uber Problem

A handful of deep-pocketed investors distorts the market, fueling a race for monopoly that inhibits product-market fit.

By

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media.

Mar 5, 2024 6:09am PST · 26 comments

Opinion

Consumer Startups Are a Better Bet Than Enterprise Startups

Our analysis found that consumer companies are more likely to go public at higher valuations than enterprise-focused companies and offer better margins and growth rates.

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Kirsten Green

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Jason Bornstein

Feb 28, 2024 7:13pm PST · 12 comments

Opinion

The Media Revolution Will Be Prompted

Artificial intelligence tools that create videos from text prompts may threaten creators—and Netflix.

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.

Feb 27, 2024 9:00am PST · 3 comments

Opinion

How AI Will Change Our Relationship With Computers

We’ve always adapted to software. Now, AI is enabling software to adapt to humans instead.

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Vinod Khosla

Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technology fan.

Feb 22, 2024 9:00am PST · 15 comments

Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids

By Esther Dyson · Jan 24, 2024 9:08am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids

People worried about AI taking their jobs are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans.

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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is a longtime tech industry analyst, the author of “Release 2:0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age,” a former tech columnist for The New York Times (its Release 3.0 column), and founder of Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project focused on health, equity and long-term thinking in five small U.S. communities.

Jan 24, 2024 9:08am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

How to Build an AI-Enabled Service Company

Copilots will often be subsumed into existing software. Better to build a law firm or financial services firm from scratch, employing artificial intelligence at every step.

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Roddy Lindsay

Roddy Lindsay (@RoddyLindsay) is the founder and CEO of Zabit, an AI-enabled health services startup.

Jan 10, 2024 9:00am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

How to Build Trust in Artificial Intelligence

The OpenAI drama shows that companies can't police themselves. Government and nonprofits need help to ensure the technology benefits humanity.

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Rumman Chowdhury

Chowdhury is the CEO and co founder of Humane Intelligence, a tech accountability nonprofit.

Dec 21, 2023 9:00am PST · 4 comments

Opinion

The People OpenAI Should Consider for Its New Board

The board should include a data ethicist, a philosopher of mind, a neuroscientist, a computer scientist with interdisciplinary expertise and a political strategist.

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Tom Chavez

Tom Chavez is a co-founder of Super{set}, a startup studio, and chair of the Ethical Tech Project, a think-and-do tank.

Dec 14, 2023 9:00am PST · 7 comments

Media Executives Covet Games, but Are Ill-Suited to Run Them

By Andrew A. Rosen · Dec 6, 2023 9:00am PST · 6 comments

Opinion

Media Executives Covet Games, but Are Ill-Suited to Run Them

Warner Bros. Discovery should consider spinning off its TV business and merging the rest of the company, including its studios, with a gaming powerhouse like Electronic Arts.

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Andrew A. Rosen

Rosen is the author of Medium Shift, a column about the post-streaming wars media convergence.

Dec 6, 2023 9:00am PST · 6 comments

Opinion

AI Can Reshape the Physical World—If We Regulate It Properly

AI has changed the digital world and is now poised to transform how the physical world is designed and built.

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Andrew Anagnost

Andrew Anagnost is the president and CEO of Autodesk.

Dec 4, 2023 9:00am PST · 3 comments

Opinion

To Continue Innovating, OpenAI Should Return to Its Nonprofit Roots

Many important tech breakthroughs originated in research organizations. But the innovations are most often commercialized elsewhere.

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Keval Desai

Desai is founder and managing director of Shakti, an early stage venture capital firm.

Nov 30, 2023 9:20am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

You Can Separate a For-Profit Company From a Nonprofit. I Helped Do It

Create separate boards and give the nonprofit influence, but not control, over the fate of the for-profit company.

By

Ben Parr

Parr is a journalist turned AI founder.

Nov 22, 2023 11:04am PST · 11 comments

Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI. Photo by Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP.

OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

By Vinod Khosla · Nov 20, 2023 7:53am PST · 42 comments

Opinion

OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

Misplaced concern about existential risk is impeding the opportunity to expand human potential.

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Vinod Khosla

Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technology fan.

Nov 20, 2023 7:53am PST · 42 comments

Opinion

How SaaS Startups Can Compete in a Bundled World

Software startups have thrived by targeting end users rather than centralized IT departments. Tighter budgets and enhanced scrutiny threaten that formula.

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Tomasz Tunguz

Tunguz is the founder of Theory Ventures.

Nov 8, 2023 8:00am PST · 3 comments

Opinion

Biden’s Not Pushing U.S. Investors Away From China. China Is

Chinese government policies had soured U.S. investors on Chinese companies before President Biden banned investments in certain high-tech sectors. But there are opportunities for common ground in sectors like energy.