Ian Krietzberg

Garrett Langley, the founder and C.E.O. of Flock Safety, admits to having ruffled a few feathers building an $8.4 billion, A.I.-infused nationwide panopticon.

With 75 data center projects canceled in 1Q26, candidates are scrambling to get their messaging right—and some are getting burned.

Ian Krietzberg Welcome to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Today, I’m taking a close look at the charged politics of data centers—and how both parties, with the midterms looming, are sharpening their messaging. Up top, an exclusive look at a new startup focused on addressing the myriad copyright-A.I. issues; Anthropic’s $11 billion quarter; and […]

Meta and SpaceXAI are suddenly gaining ground in the frontier model race. But as customers become increasingly price sensitive, and models are being asked to execute more specific tasks, does a “winner takes all” mentality still make sense?

Former a16z partner Vijay Pande thinks an A.I. crash is inevitable, so we may as well get it over with. But how bad could things get, and what would the industry look like afterward?

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Sep 3, 2026 Ian Krietzberg Welcome to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Last week, OpenAI published the results of its internal investigation into its recent Hugging Face attack on the same day that METR, an A.I. safety organization, released its own independent analysis of the same event. Then, as you probably saw, podcaster Dwarkesh […]

Will the advent of artificial superintelligence be as dangerous as a nuclear weapon? Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar would rather we never find out. Unlike the hydrogen bomb, however, nobody can agree on what A.S.I. actually is or what it might be able to do.

A series of inconsistent model releases have led many to believe Google has lost serious ground in the A.I. frontier race. But data, distribution, and sweet, sweet profitability make the juggernaut difficult to count out.

Ian Krietzberg Welcome to The Hidden Layer. I’m Ian Krietzberg. Maybe you noticed, but one company was notably absent from my recent report on the feverish state of the A.I. fight: Google. So, in today’s issue, I’m digging into the $4 trillion giant’s place in the frontier race. Plus, up top, news and notes on […]