We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same. The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology b...

“More than 100 of them [AI unicorns] were founded only in the past two years” crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/b...

Worth reading from @crazystupidtech.com

Enveda's AI makes drugs from plants. It could revolutionize pharma. Enveda, led by founder Viswa Colluru, thinks making drugs from plants using AI and robots will revolutionize pharma worldwide.

“Going natural” has become something of a third rail in drug development. Dozens of pharma companies big and small have tried. Enveda has a plan to win. @fvogelstein.bsky.social reports. crazystupidtech.com/2026/02/27/e...

Congratulations to @techmeme.com founder @gaberivera.bsky.social for celebrating two decades as “conversation” king of tech. My partner in writing adventures, @fvogelstein.bsky.social has a great story about tech.memorandum on @crazystupidtech.com crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter. Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.

From @crazystupidtech.com
@gaberivera.bsky.social’s 20 year old headline site @techmeme.com has never been hotter.
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iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype! Rodney Brooks, co-founder of three robotic companies and an AI guru has a pragmatic and honest opinions about the state of AI and Robotics. An interview!

Are you in the mood for a 6000-word interview about AI, Robotics, and get a lowdown on the hype and reality of the two of the hottest tech trends? Well, we have you covered in this chat with @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social (Also, please sign up for our newsletter) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

Bluesky isn't just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes what's wrong with social media. By Fred Vogelstein I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant...

So many excellent point made in this piece by @fvogelstein.bsky.social in @crazystupidtech.com today. Be sure to read to the end, history repeating itself (in a good way) :-).

Meet Visual AI’s Unlikely Winner I’ve spent over a decade following the evolution of computational photography, watching as algorithms and machine learning transform how we capture and enhance visual content. During this jou…

Topaz Labs built a $48M business by breaking every Silicon Valley rule: no VC money, no blitzscaling, just laser focus on real customer problems. My interview with CEO Eric Yang for @crazystupidtech.com reveals how they did it. Lot of lessons for founders here. crazystupidtech.com/2025/06/30/t...

Why the AI revolution needs tollbooths Eighteen months ago as the AI chatbot revolution was taking hold, Olivia Joslin and Toshit Panigrahi both realized something profound was happening to the way the internet worked.  AI web craw…

The decades-old doctrine of "Web traffic in exchange for permission to crawl” is over, writes @fredvogel.bsky.social in his latest feature, and as a result, the Internet in the age of AI will be filled with much-needed “tolls.” This change has come quickly!

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China's EV Boom Is Bad For U.S.Tech By Om Malik Sometimes, a car is not just a car. Take the new Volvo ES90, as an example. In its press release, Volvo touts computing power of 508 trillion...

China's EV dominance isn't just about cars—it's about building an entirely new tech ecosystem. China is using EVs to create its own tech stack that could challenge US digital supremacy. The US Tech Stack has a real competitor. My @om.co latest
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Can we manipulate AI as much as it manipulates us? By Fred Vogelstein Many still believe AI optimization is an oxymoron. You can’t optimize something as complicated and inherently unpredictable as a neural...

My co-writer @fvogelstein.bsky.social asks the question: Can we manipulate AI as much as it manipulates us? In other words, is there SEO of AI age on the horizon?
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Why IoT Failed & What Pete Warden Is Doing About It By Om Malik Pete Warden is the kind of fellow you would run into at the old eTech conference or at Foo Camp—an old-school engineer who is equally at home...

My latest interview is with Pete Warden about why IoT failed and what AI can do to make devices easier to use and intelligent. Warden is one of my favorite tech-thinkers-doers and I really enjoyed this conversation! crazystupidtech.com/archive/why-...

The Why of Crazy Stupid Tech Welcome to Crazy Stupid Tech, a newsletter about the tech-of-technology that shapes the future If you don’t know us, here’s a quick introduction. • I am Fred...

CrazyStupidTech is a weekly newsletter about innovation and new technologies by Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein. Our focus is on tech-of-technology that shapes the future. We believe, that the tech-of-tech is the best lens to focus on the future. crazystupidtech.com/archive/the-...