After driving a Chinese EV for several weeks, Wall Street Journal technology columnist Joanna Stern wrote that she would prefer never to buy an American-made vehicle again.
If middle-class Americans fully understood why their counterparts in China can buy far more technologically advanced vehicles for considerably less, the reaction here would be anything but complacent.
Never in a million years did I expect I’d trust a robot over a human driver.
But after years of rising prices, declining service, and watching Uber enrich its CEO while degrading both drivers and riders, I found myself choosing Waymo — reluctantly at first, then repeatedly.
This isn’t a tech love letter. It’s a story about how Uber hollowed out ride sharing so thoroughly that automation began to feel like relief.
In 2021, Wall Street analysts spoke about EVs with near-messianic certainty. Four years later, the strategy is being unwound, billions have been written off, and the media has largely allowed those same voices to move on without explanation or accountability.
Alas, I’m not so charitable.
If you were launching a transformational technology, would you cut marketing by $1 billion?
GM did.
A cautionary tale about the perils of deferring to artificial intelligence instead of your own judgment.
From Vegas casinos to federal firewalls, America’s cybersecurity is a house of cards. Teenagers and China keep winning — and I seem alone in my outrage.
Apologies to GM’s Mary Barra and Ford’s Jim Farley, who I’ve long maligned as the auto industry’s worst CEOs. Turns out Jaguar Land Rover’s Adrian Mardell has them both beat.
Ford has already recalled nearly 8 million vehicles in 2025 — more than it will sell worldwide. Here’s my PSA for anyone thinking of buying a vehicle with a Blue Oval on the hood.
From tiki statues and “family” talk to 4,000 pink slips and an army of bots.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this “progress.” I call it another entry in my CEO Hall of Shame.
Mark Zuckerberg spent $110M to wall himself off from his Silicon Valley neighbors. He could have used some of his billions to wall children off from Meta’s chatbots.
Reuters uncovered internal guidelines that allowed bots to flirt with kids and even write racist screeds. Meta’s response? The same rinse-and-repeat PR denial we’ve heard for years.
So far, only rock legend Neil Young has expressed outrage — and bolted from Facebook.