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January 23, 2026
Jagged Intelligence, Jagged Adoption
At Davos this week, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, gave a standout talk about the path he believes AI will take in the coming years. While he thinks the tool will be utterly transformative, Hassabis still warned that the models have “these jagged edges that they’re good at and not good at.” Hassabis’s…
January 22, 2026
Watch Those Assumptions!
Today I share my January column for Dispatch Energy. In it, I identify some important, but deeply buried, assumptions in the International Energy Agency’s (IEA )most recent World Energy Outlook (WEO). The IEA has come under some criticism (and properly so, in my view) in recent years for seemingly moving towards advocacy. The most recent WEO, issued at…
January 22, 2026
High Stakes as Country’s First Social Media Addiction Trial Nears and Snap Settles
“This is a case about minor Plaintiffs’ alleged addiction to Defendants’ social media platforms and the alleged adverse effects flowing from that addiction.” That’s how California Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl recently distilled about three years’ worth of litigation involving more than 1,000 coordinated cases from across the nation, as jury selection—barring last-minute delays…
January 21, 2026
Compelling Platforms to Convey State-Sponsored Speech: First Amendment Lessons from Colorado
A federal court recently blocked Colorado from enforcing part of a new law that compels social media platforms “to provide non-commercial disclosures to minors about the alleged health impacts of using their platforms.” In issuing a preliminary injunction in NetChoice v. Weiser, Senior US District Judge William Martinez concluded the measure would likely fail the…
January 20, 2026
What Using AI for My Mom’s Cancer Taught Me
The most profound way I used AI in 2025 came during one of the harder stretches my family has faced: My mother’s cancer came back. In the past, navigating this diagnosis meant late‑night Googling, scattered notes, and a nagging sense that I did not fully understand the medical language in front of us. Second opinions…
January 20, 2026
What a Year of Living With AI Taught Me
A year ago, I shared some reflections on how I was using AI and suggested that it’s helpful to think of these tools as competent interns working remotely: earnest and sophisticated, but still in need of direction and supervision. In 2025, those interns grew up. What surprised me wasn’t the pace of technical progress but…
January 16, 2026
CES 2026 Marks the Shift From AI Features to AI Coordination
For many years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) displayed the potential for smart technology to transform our daily lives. At CES 2026, the reality of smart devices came to life as AI improved how individual tasks are performed. The real breakthrough isn’t just AI-enabled devices: It’s how AI enables collaboration with systems that recognize that…
January 16, 2026
Two Cheers for Abundance: Tech Policy and the Politics of Growth
Over the last year, the Abundance movement has gained traction in American political discourse. Driven by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book of the same name, Abundance challenges the progressive left to focus on overcoming scarcity by rebuilding America’s capacity to build. The framework breaks down in places, and its prescriptions should not be accepted…
January 15, 2026
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls
Back in 2012, Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue, and I published the first peer-reviewed paper presenting a time series of global tropical cyclone landfalls of hurricane strength. In that paper we concluded: From currently available historical TC records, we constructed a long-period global hurricane landfall dataset using a consistent methodology. We have identified considerable interannual variability in the frequency of…
January 15, 2026
Data Centers Make Easy Targets For Rising Energy Bills, But They Are Poor Scapegoats
If we’re going to fix electricity pricing problems, we need to understand what’s actually causing them. Blaming data centers for rising electricity bills is easier than reforming how we allocate infrastructure costs, but only one of those approaches will actually help ratepayers.