I don’t do memes frequently, but I’ve used this one twice: Alas, I think I need to retire it. From the Wall Street Journal: Meta Platforms posted 22% revenue growth in the second quarter, showing its ...

William Letwin, in Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act, argued that the only way to understand the Sherman Antitrust Act, and by extension antitrust in ...

That image is from Robert Gordon’s book The Rise and Fall of American Growth; one of the more startling facts surrounding this graph is that between 1910 and 1930 the average household purchased 3.1 ...

Nvidia investors have been in the valley before: This chart, though, is not from the last two years, but rather from the beginning of 2017 to the beginning of 2019; here is 2017 to today: Three big ...

Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter has a whole host of example output, including Teddy bears ...

In the beginning was the mainframe. These were hardly computers as we know them today, but rather calculation machines that took in reams of data (via punch cards or magnetic tape) and returned ...

One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s Great ...

I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize: On Friday, ...

Matthew Yglesias, in his new book One Billion Americans, admits: The One Billion Americans agenda — tripling the American population — is a radical suggestion that lies well outside the boundaries of ...

The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed, and ...

It has long been a useful cliché to say that covering tech is easy, because something is always happening; now that that something is AI, that is more true than ever. Nearly every Article on ...

It’s funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write an Article entitled It’s Not 1999; that was right then, and it’s ...