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John Battelle

John Battelle

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Jul 13

Tech Has a History. What Will It Teach Us About AI?

It seems ridiculous now, but when I was a cub reporter covering the tech industry, our publication had an entire beat focused on word…

Tech Has a History. What Will It Teach Us About AI?

John Battelle

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Jul 9

Who Stole Our Alpha?!

Have you seen Alex Karp’s rant on CNBC? I fielded this question about a dozen times over the past week. If you’ve not yet watched, it’s…

John Battelle

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Jul 8

Economic Reality Hits AI

One of the best ways to find signal in the noise of a major technological shift is through the time-tested journalistic tactic of following…

Economic Reality Hits AI

John Battelle

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Jul 7

Are We Losing The Plot?

“Our lives have become dematerialized.”

Are We Losing The Plot?

John Battelle

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Jun 29

We Lost One of the Greats Last Week

It seems almost quaint now, but there was once a version of the Internet ruled by influencers that were honest, high integrity folks who…

We Lost One of the Greats Last Week

John Battelle

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Jun 23

In an Age of AI, How Can You Trust the News?

The single most essential ingredient of good journalism is trust. By that measure, journalism is in a very bad way: According to The…

In an Age of AI, How Can You Trust the News?

John Battelle

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Jun 22

Quitting A Digital Habit

Amongst friends and family, I’m known as something of a digital curmudgeon. I’m usually the one person in group chats who does not use an…

John Battelle

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Jun 15

What If We All Acted Like Corporations?

Yesterday Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a fascinating essay that reads as both a rebuke to frontier AI model companies like…

What If We All Acted Like Corporations?

John Battelle

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Jun 10

Who Governs — Apple, Or Us?

I’m traveling today — consider this brief post a placeholder of sorts. I’ve long railed against the privatization of public space, and the…

Who Governs — Apple, Or Us?

John Battelle

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Jun 8

Did OpenAI Just Kill Its Advertising Business?

Over the weekend the Financial Times came out with a report on OpenAI’s latest pivot. According to a senior OpenAI executive quoted in the…

Did OpenAI Just Kill Its Advertising Business?

John Battelle

John Battelle

A Founder of DOC, The Recount, NewCo, Federated Media, sovrn Holdings, Web 2 Summit, Wired, Industry Standard; writer on Media, Technology, Culture, Business

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