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Crazy Stupid Tech is a weekly newsletter about innovation and new technologies by longtime tech journalists Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein. Together we have followed Silicon Valley’s innovation engine for decades. We've seen a lot.

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Blog 2 months ago
How an argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother.
Om - I hope this finds you well. Your post about Wired tickled just the right group of neurons to make me write something. It's kind of a rant. But also something I've been thinking about for a long time. Would love to reconnect. best fv Hi Fred Thanks fo
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Blog 2 months ago
Om Malik, 1966-2026
All: Here's a note Om's family just posted on his website Om.co: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of O
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Blog 2 months ago
Abridge fights to become the operating system of US healthcare
Silicon Valley has been trying to come up with solutions to the U.S.'s health care bureaucracy for generations. But the administrative burden on patients, doctors … everyone, really, has only gotten worse. Myriad studies over the years have identified doc
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Blog 4 months ago
What I've been reading …
So … I've only skimmed the Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz New Yorker opus on Sam Altman. But my immediate reaction was that they didn't ask the right question. A story that asks whether Altman can be trusted seems self-evident to me. Maybe the more gener
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Blog 4 months ago
Behold, an AI startup with a real business
Jessica Powell still vividly remembers her first set of funding pitches for Audioshake six years ago. They were a disaster. She'd spent a decade at Google rising to become its head of all communications. She knew many of the venture capitalists in Silicon
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