ISSUE 23.32 • 2026-08-10 SILICON By Matthew S. Smith If you, like me, became familiar with PCs in the late 1980s or 1990s, then you no doubt have the blue Intel Inside logo seared into your brain. You may even occasionally reminisce about people dancing in bunny suits. Even though  the competence of Intel’s marketing […]

AI By Matthew S. Smith This might be hard to believe, but we’re now at least four years into the era of AI large language models — and perhaps up to nine, depending on your definition. OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released in 2022, GPT-3 was released in 2020, and the paper that defined the transformer architecture […]