Artificial Intelligence

Podcast: Building ad tech for the chatbot era (with Tal Shoham)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjG5yNOZDxg On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Tal Shoham, the CEO and co-founder of Velocity,…

Meta’s Muse moat: integration into Advantage+

Yesterday, Meta launched Muse Image, its foundation image generation model. The new model is available to consumers in Meta AI…

The Prosperous Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0h7Em7u5M The Prosperous Society is a three-hour, four-part series that explores the political economy of artificial intelligence, grounded in the…

Meta’s morass

Bloomberg reports that Meta is considering launching a cloud compute business (emphasis mine): Meta Platforms Inc. is developing plans for a…

The enterprise AI price war and OpenAI’s consumer advantage

Last week, the WSJ reported that OpenAI is considering applying "drastic price cuts" to its enterprise API to win customers…

WWDC 2026: Implications for the App Economy

Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, this week; the Keynote and Platforms State of the Union presentations were on…

Podcast: Can AI Save Journalism? (with Peter Stuart)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7olUBiFGo On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Peter Stuart, the co-founder of Velora, an AI…

Unpacking Apple’s update to Foundation Models Framework

Apple unveiled a major update to its Foundation Models Framework (FMF) at this year's WWDC. The FMF was introduced at…

Meta’s subscriptions and the advertising narrative blind spot

Meta announced last week that it is rolling out its Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus subscriptions globally. There…

The generative RecSys revolution

The application of generative methodologies to recommendation systems infrastructure ("RecSys") is an exciting area at the frontier of ML research.…