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Arun @arunbahl.bsky.social · 12d

It was a pleasure speaking with @puck.news' A.I. correspondent @iankrietzberg.bsky.social about how @aloeinc.bsky.social's AI leapt ahead to state-of-the-art – and in doing so ushered in the “Dawn of the Self-Building A.I.”

Dawn of the Self-Building A.I.

News and notes on Aloe, a buzzy new entrant in the A.I. race, which is seemingly capable of building, vetting, and using tools to more reliably answer user queries.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers.

He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer."

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · 19d

I spoke with Sen. Mark Kelly abt his new plan for AI: create a dedicated federal fund to invest in infrastructure and worker retraining that’s paid for by the very AI companies that are straining U.S. infrastructure and threatening to replace American workers.

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Mark Kelly’s A.I. Moon Shot

In a candid conversation, astronaut turned senator Mark Kelly discusses his new A.I. policy road map, how the private sector can help “win” the A.I. arms race, and whether going all in on the technolo...

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Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you, @iankrietzberg.bsky.social for giving space to voices of AI resistance and refusal in higher ed. I was happy to be a part of this vital conversation.

#EduSky #AIinEdu #AIResistance

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School of Grok

Professors and academics discuss how A.I. has invaded their classrooms, whether it’s incompatible with the aims of higher education, and their recently published open letter calling on universities to...

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

"At which point, somebody is utilizing a consultative approach to living their life” is one of my favorite quotes a source has ever given me.

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

A few weeks ago, I interviewed the co-founder of Ash, which is marketing itself as the first A.I. chatbot purpose-built for therapy.

When I got off the call, I downloaded the app and started testing it out. Then, I sent the transcripts to a psychiatrist at UCLA .

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Id, Ego & A.I.

Slingshot, which counts a16z as an investor, recently launched “Ash,” a new therapy chatbot that’s being billed as a cheap pocket shrink. Is this an improvement on the current anthropomorphizing of Ch...

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

I connected with Dr. Danielle Perszyk, a cognitive scientist at Amazon’s AGI Labs, to hear about the work the lab is doing, and how it aims to achieve its mission of AGI.

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Amazon’s A.G.I. Prime

While others have abandoned the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Amazon’s AGI Labs is still chasing the dream. Cognitive scientist Danielle Perszyk explains how they’re trying to build adva...

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Eriq Gardner @eriqgardner.bsky.social · Aug 13

So much of the agitation surrounding A.I. and entertainment these days is fixated on content production. How about the gatekeepers of the entertainment ecosystem? A conversation with @iankrietzberg.bsky.social and @loudmouthjulia.bsky.social puck.news/will-america...

Will America Learn to Love A.I. Slop?

Algorithmic A.I. is coming for Hollywood, publishing, and even the music industry. Eriq Gardner, Julia Alexander, and Ian Krietzberg debate whether consumers or the courts will fight back.

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

In my latest for @puck.news, I chatted with
@garymarcus.bsky.social to take in the GPT-5 fallout

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Covered a lot in the latest issue of The Hidden Layer — superintelligence, tescrealism, and an exclusive conversation with the ‘Netflix of AI,’ Edward Saatchi.

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A.I. Netflix, Anthropic’s $170B Stunner & Zuck in Translation

July 31, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. I’ve been speaking to a number of players in the A.I.-media space, and recently came across a pitch for something nov...

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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · Jul 31

🧠 What if everyone had their own superintelligent AI?
@leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, & @paris.nyc. explore personal AI, hiring bots at Chipotle, and Zuck's open-source U-turn. 🎤 Guest: @iankrietzberg.bsky.social on the AI Action Plan. 🎧 Download and subscribe here: buff.ly/iVFmKhG
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Interview with Ian KrietzbergLeo's shows off his new AI toysParis unveils her new desk setupPersonal SuperintelligenceYou might want to delve into this paper. I want to

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Jul 31

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

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What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social · Jul 30

Great piece on the geopolitical AI competition getting distilled to a rush for AI adoption while ignoring other societal values. As I told Ian, American leadership in AI is not the same thing as driving larger profits for American companies

Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jul 29

In my latest for Puck, I dug into at least one aspect of the development of AI that feels so distinct: the fact that governments around the world are pushing really hard, not just to advance the state of AI, but to drive adoption of it

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jul 29

In my latest for Puck, I dug into at least one aspect of the development of AI that feels so distinct: the fact that governments around the world are pushing really hard, not just to advance the state of AI, but to drive adoption of it

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

My latest for Puck — Took a look at Uber’s plans for a fleet of robotaxis, and broke down the feasibility of the roadmap, and all the speed bumps that likely line the way.

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jul 16

My latest for Puck - how hospitals are using generative AI, and how nurses got caught in the middle:

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A.I. Talent Wars, Grok’s D.O.D. Debut & A Medical Industry Reckoning

July 15, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer, my new twice-weekly email devoted to the opaque, high-stakes world of artificial intelligence. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Thanks for all the gre...

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Jul 11

thiiiiis

semantic search is CRAZY useful in how it can unlock the value of the vast majority of data, which is unstructured

the fact that LLMs can also summarize and recontextualize that unstructured data is truly a breakthrough

this is not by any stretch of the imagination AGI

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Jul 11

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jul 11

In my latest for @puck.news, I dove into Microsoft’s latest computational biology breakthrough, and had a candid chat with Runway co-founder Anastasis Germanidis about the push to build world models.

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Microsoft’s Breakthrough, Grok 4 Realities & Runway’s “World Simulators”

July 10, 2025 Ian Krietzberg Welcome back to The Hidden Layer, my new twice-weekly private email on the business of A.I. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Thanks for all the great feedback on our inaugural issue, c...

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John Ourand @ourand.bsky.social · Jul 9

New pod: Puck’s @iankrietzberg.bsky.social on the growing influence of artificial intelligence in sports.

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Here Come the Robo Umps…

Podcast Episode · The Varsity · 07/09/2025 · 47m

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

I am so excited to officially announce that I am joining the incredible team at Puck.

I'll be launching a twice-weekly A.I. newsletter where I'll be covering the most important goings-on in the space.

I hope you'll join me there: puck.news/newsletters/...

Puck @puck.news · Jun 3

Puck is proud to welcome Ian Krietzberg aboard as our partner and A.I. correspondent.

Want to receive Ian’s writing directly in your inbox? Sign up for Puck’s A.I. private email, The Hidden Layer, here: puck.news/newsletters/...

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Puck @puck.news · Jun 3

Puck is proud to welcome Ian Krietzberg aboard as our partner and A.I. correspondent.

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Brad Zamft @bradzamft.bsky.social · Apr 22

Just in time for #EarthDay, my chat about AI, ag, and sustainability is out on The Deep View podcast. Thanks
@iankrietzberg.bsky.social for the fun convo!

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Jan 27

calling them hallucinations seems to me to connote that some sort of abnormal perception is going on. but in fact (1) there is no perception at all, as there is no perceiver, and (2) there’s nothing abnormal about it. all the chatbot answers are “hallucinations,” but some happen to be right

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Jan 12

In the latest episode of The Deep View: Conversations, I chatted with the CEO of Pindrop, a cybersecurity firm, about the cybersec implications of AI and the ways in which AI is both a cyber sword and shield when it comes to fraud.

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Identity Hijacking: The fight against AI fraud

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Ian Krietzberg @iankrietzberg.bsky.social · Dec 15

Have talked a lot about the environmental cost of AI. But researchers recently took things a step forward, studying the public health cost of AI.

It's severe, and it all has to do with air pollution.

#AI #sustainability #publichealth #airpollution

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⚙️ The public health crisis of AI

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