Alex Heath
@alexeheath
Deputy Editor @verge and author of Command Line, a newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation
AI was supposed to kill Google. Instead: - Search is growing - Gemini is growing - DeepMind is firing on all cylinders I think it’s safe to say that Google is back.
are we past peak writing? feels like reading is moving into luxury territory
these types of exploding offers are becoming increasingly common (Meta has been doing the same), if you've been offered one or know folks who have, would love to chat privately
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the…
Deepfakes aren't "coming"; they're here and getting better by the week. The truth is, most people still don't know the tells or what's next for the tech. That's why I sat down with @alexeheath on @verge Decoder podcast to unpack: - The 4 generations of deepfakes (and what's…
first podcast I've started with "damn we are cooked" sincerely though, I appreciate Captions CEO @gmharhar being real about the good and bad tradeoffs of ever-better deepfakes proliferating theverge.com/decoder-podcas…
SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
We have the definitive story on Dan Gross leaving SSI for Meta, the Windsurf saga, and a secret conversation between Zuckerberg and OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen—all in our epic weekend read about the AI talent wars w/ @keachhagey @bzcohen wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-a…
a lil scoop in today's newsletter: Shane Smith tried to buy Substack
Early review of Comet by @alexeheath: "makes it feel like a step back to use a regular ChatGPT-like experience". Good start.
Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas and I discussed his new web browser, Comet, and why he believes it's the best approach to building a robust AI agent. I also asked him about rumors that Apple may buy Perplexity (Meta already tried), his plan for an IPO, and the AI talent frenzy.
"I’m not extremely bearish on MCP. I just want it to mature more, and I don’t want to wait. I want to ship agents right now. I feel like AI as a community, as an industry has just been talking about agents for the last two years and no one’s actually shipped anything that…
Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas and I discussed his new web browser, Comet, and why he believes it's the best approach to building a robust AI agent. I also asked him about rumors that Apple may buy Perplexity (Meta already tried), his plan for an IPO, and the AI talent frenzy.