Silicon Valley's False Prophet Like this newsletter? Subscribe to my podcast Better Offline - this week we've got a two parter digging Ed Zitron Jun 11, 2024 15 min read
The Rot-Com Bubble If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two part Ed Zitron Jun 3, 2024 18 min read
We're Watching Facebook Die Like this newsletter? You should listen to the Better Offline episode! In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36. Ed Zitron May 28, 2024 16 min read
Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Ed Zitron May 21, 2024 8 min read
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook Enjoy this post? Why not try the podcast version? Please download it, and also all the other episodes. Over the Ed Zitron May 20, 2024 22 min read
Expectations Versus Reality A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much Ed Zitron May 13, 2024 23 min read
Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying Ed Zitron May 6, 2024 24 min read
Managing Up Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter) Ed Zitron Apr 29, 2024 14 min read
In Response To Google Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my Ed Zitron Apr 25, 2024 6 min read
The Man Who Killed Google Search Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Ed Zitron Apr 23, 2024 14 min read
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32. Ed Zitron Apr 15, 2024 19 min read
Bubble Trouble As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week Ed Zitron Apr 4, 2024 16 min read