Amazon and Apple both held "events" today to unveil new hardware. It's interesting to watch the convergence there – almost like watching the convergence of the MacBook and iPad. Read on for thoughts on...

Oct 27 5 min

Profoundly Proactive

The "AI personal assistant" movement feels real this time...

Oct 25 5 min

Bee Here Now

Amazon’s quiet, listening AI wearable is also pretty killer?

Oct 23 5 min

A Tale of Two iPhones

Well really, two tales of two different dichotomies between devices...

Oct 22 5 min

The Race for Bond, James Bond

Jack Lowden, Callum Turner... Josh O'Connor? And maybe Richard Madden? Oh my...

Oct 16 5 min

Inklings #030 📧

iPhone Duo Fail • I Saw Everything • Apple & Meta • Amazon's Bee • Netflix Shake Up • OpenAI Spy

Oct 15 5 min

The AI Assistant Wars

A chat about the state of AI personal assistants and if this is really the time for them to shine...

Oct 14 5 min

Chaos isn't a Pit. Chaos is a Countertop.

Apple's strange new HomeView...

Oct 13 5 min

Meta Back at the AI Frontier • Sora as a Startup

Continuing their "we're back" tour, Meta's new 'Wonder' models, built for Muse, put them at the frontier – or so they say. Meanwhile, not back yet, but maybe soonish: Sora?! Say it is so! Read on for thoughts on...

Oct 13 5 min

The Box Office Reckoning

No one wants to see 'The Social Reckoning' – at least not in theaters...

Oct 13 5 min

A Couple Elephants in the Character.AI Bankruptcy Room

From a $2.7B "hackquisition" to a $20M IP fire sale...

Oct 12 5 min

Apple's Long View on 'HomeView'

The name seems in focus, are the use cases?

Oct 12 5 min

Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance!

X is proving to be an internet cockroach...

Oct 11 5 min

SIgh

"Super Intelligence" has been converted into silly signaling...

Oct 09 5 min

Inklings #029 📧

Spring-Loaded Ternus • Endless Geminis • Mathpocalypse • OpenAI's "Missing" ARR • OK Googlebooks

Oct 09 5 min

AI as UI • The Datacenter NIMBY Problem

A tweak this week to the way ChatGPT is surfacing information and letting us interact with it may end up as a subtly bigger deal than their Dots AI assistant. Meanwhile, reading about China's massive data center initiatives is pretty daunting, and honestly dis…

Oct 08 5 min

Amazon Comes to Kill the iPad Again

'Alexa Tablets' put out the 'Fire Tablets', finally...

Oct 08 5 min

Microsoft Comes to Kill the MacBook Again

Can the 'Surface Laptop Ultra' use AI capabilities and NVIDIA to end the reign of the MacBook Pro? I mean...

Oct 07 5 min

Apple's LG Home Partnership • HBO Max/Paramount+ Super App

Apple's would-be 'HomePod Hub' device starts to make a lot more sense if it launches alongside a bunch of other technology products for the home – and the best way to do that, fast, is with a deep partnership with a current player. One which

Oct 06 5 min

Tech CEOs: Thou Art a Villain

This Fall, Hollywood is coming at tech with a vengeance...

Oct 05 5 min

Ode to the AirPods 5

They didn't steal the show, but they stole my ears...

Oct 04 5 min

Warner Bros Digs One Final Box Office Crater

'Digger' was an entirely predictable box office bomb in 2026

Oct 02 5 min

Inklings #028 📧

Apple's HomeHub • A Nimble Apple • SpaceX Phone! • MountDanceWarBroDisco! • Argon's Conquest • Flight Club

Oct 01 5 min

Thoughts & Questions Around Apple's Would-Be 'HomePod Hub'

Can Siri AI bring it all home?

Sep 30 5 min

OpenAI's Dots Dichotomy

ChatGPT's cutesy AI assistant feels torn between work and play...

Sep 29 5 min

Anthropic's Apocalyptic S-1 • Meta Enterprise

Anthropic's leaked prospectus suggests that the what is likely to be the largest IPO in history may also be the strangest, shrouded in doom but perhaps not gloom? Meanwhile, while we already knew about Meta's push towards a Cloud offering, by hiring their own…