Parmy Olson
Bloomberg
United Kingdom
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SVB Teaches Tech Startups a Crucial Lesson About Cash
Founders who poured assets into Silicon Valley Bank can breathe a sigh of relief. Then they should start diversifying their money. → Read More
Drowning in Email? Consider a Paywall
A spam tsunami is coming for our inboxes as more senders use ChatGPT. Maybe an old idea to gate them will finally take off. → Read More
TikTok’s Bold Glamour Filter Is Impressively Toxic
The app’s post-reality values increasingly clash with progressive ideals. → Read More
Sorry, Twitter. Elon Found His Next Shiny Object.
A grand new AI mission awaits the erratic billionaire while his social media platform loses more staff, advertisers and credibility. → Read More
Zuckerberg May Have Better Luck With Elon’s ‘Blue Tick’
Facebook and Instagram’s subscription service is really aimed at helping influencers go viral. That might also boost spam. → Read More
AI Chatbot Race Between Microsoft, Google Is Loaded With Risk
Bing and Bard will almost certainly make mistakes, and publishers will not be happy. → Read More
Layoffs Alone Won’t Solve Tech’s Problems
Talk of “efficiency” might please investors for a while, but companies will need to make deeper changes to their culture to thrive long term. → Read More
Google Will Join the AI Wars, Pitting LaMDA Against ChatGPT
Amid lackluster results, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is jumping into the fight → Read More
Beware ChatGPT Trying to Teach Your Kids Math
It has tantalizing potential as a tutor but is also a worrying new source of misinformation for kids. → Read More
Trump and Facebook Are Frenemies Who Can’t Let Go
Allowing the former president back on the social platform would be risky, but both sides could use the revenue. → Read More
Meta Will Decide How Painful Its Irish Gut Punch Is
The company’s core business model could be threatened if it lets users opt out of targeted ads. → Read More
ChatGPT Is No Magic Bullet for Microsoft’s Bing
A significant AI upgrade for the beleaguered search tool could threaten Google, but it will be difficult to pull off. → Read More
Big Tech Is in Crisis. That’s Exactly What It Needed.
Painful pressures and AI advances will help reinvigorate a lackluster industry. → Read More
Big Tech Will Get Back to Real Tech in 2023
Gut wrenching cutbacks will refocus the tech industry on things that go bleep-bleep. Plus a selection of the columnist’s best work in 2022. → Read More
Twitter Users Deliver the Verdict Musk Probably Wanted
The billionaire’s stewardship of the social platform has been marked by so much stress and chaos that he just might follow through and step aside. → Read More
Apple’s iPhone Needs a Shake-Up. A New Law Might Help.
An EU law that loosens the tech giant’s iron grip on core iPhone functions should breathe new life into the device. → Read More
Did a Robot Write This? We Need Watermarks to Spot AI
OpenAI is exploring ways to stealthily label words generated by its new chatbot. It can’t happen soon enough. → Read More
ChatGPT Could Soon Be the Better Way to Google
Answers from the AI-powered chatbot are often more useful than those from the world’s biggest search engine. Alphabet should be worried. → Read More
The UK Could Finally Make Social Media a Safer Place
Its Online Safety Bill will force Instagram, Snap and others to show how damaging their algorithms can be to kids — if it ever gets through Parliament. → Read More
Social Media Is a Wreck. Protesters Are Rising Above It.
Facebook, Twitter and WeChat have their problems, but they are playing a critical role in helping uprisings against autocratic regimes. → Read More