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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

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

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

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

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

Apple is 50 today. And while the first 25 years was bumpy. Boy, have they made it look easy in the past 25 years. Every year, like clockwork, Steve Jobs and now Tim Cook have regaled us with innovation after innovation. The company almost went bankrupt in

I have been crowing about OpenClaw for a few months now. It is AI's democratization moment. Why it matters isn't the actual software, but more about the possibility it represents: intelligence on the cheap. Then Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent two hours at

It's easy to be skeptical when you first hear about Enveda and its 30-something founder Viswa Colluru. The business he's in - making medicines from plants and other natural products - is filled with charlatans. And Colluru lately has been making not just